new species of Butterflies from South Africa. 183 
Mycalesis selousi, sp. n. (Plate Y., figs. 2, 2a.) 
Exp. al.(^)l in., 9-10^ lin.; (?) 1 in., 10-1 1^ lin. 
. Brownish-yrey^ loith a tinge of yelloiD-ochreous ; hindmargins 
narrowly pale grey, with two parallel dark grey subterminal hair 
lines ; no ocelli, hut iri three {out of four) examples a small indistinct 
fuscous spot marking the usual p)osition of an ocellus between 1st and 
2nd median nervules of forewing ; ground-colour of same wing 
slightly paler subapically. Cilia pale grey. Underside : Soft 
pale grey., with a pale violaceous tinge., finely {and beyond middle 
more sparsely) hatched and irrorated with brownish-grey ; common 
premedian and postraedian streaks thin, irregularly dentate- 
sinuate, brown, the former (indistinct in forewing) faintly 
inwardly, the latter more strongly outwardly, edged narrowly with 
whitish-yellow. Forewing : subapical ocellus, between radial 
nervules, indicated by a very small or minute white spot ; lower 
ocellus, between 1st and 2nd median nervules, very small but 
complete, the white pupil conspicuous but the yellowish ring 
indistinct. Hindwing : postmedian line more irregular than in 
forewing ; ocelli of discal series very small or minute, their rings 
not perceptible, the 3rd of the normal 7 wanting, and the 2nd 
represented by a white dot only. 
? . Like ^ ; but in forewing the fuscous spots representing 
the two ocelli are (in two out of three specimens) better ex- 
pressed, and there is between them some ill-defined paler clouding. 
This species appears to belong to tlie Safitza group ; 
the (? has the same sexual badges ; viz., in the forewing, 
the sac about the middle of the submedian nervure, and 
(on the underside) the wide, glossy, inner-marginal 
space; and, in the hindwing, the glossy costal border 
and tuft of hair on subcostal nervure. The subcostal, 
median, and submedian nervures of the forewing are all 
swollen at the base. 
This Mycalesisj on the whole, comes nearest to M. 
leptoglena, Karsch,* but differs (judging from the descrip- 
tion and figure of that species) on the underside in (1) 
the general hatching and irroration, (2) the sinuate- 
dentate irregularity of the postmedian streak (especially 
in the hindwing), (3) only two ocelli (instead of five) in 
the forewing, and total absence of the pale outer circles 
of all ocelli in both wings so conspicuous in M. leptoglenay 
* Berl. Ent. Zeits. xxxviii., p. 208, No. 95, pi. v., fig. 7 ($). 
Hab. Bismarckburg, Togoland. 
