SATYRIIS^^. 
26. (1.) Mycalesis Safitza^ Hewitson. 
^ Mycalesis Safitza^ He wits., Gen. Diiirn. Lep., p. 394, n. 10, pi. 66, f. 3 
(1851); Exot. Butt, iii. p. 80, pi. 40, f. 4 (1862). 
^Mycalesis Eusirus, Hopff., " Monatsber. d. K. Akad. Wissenscli., Berl., 
1855, p. 641, n. 13 and Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Ins., p. 393, 
pi. 25, ff. 3, 4 (1862). 
^Mycalesis ivjusta, "VYallgrn., K. S v. Yet. -Akad. Handl., 1857, Lep. Rhop. 
Caffr., p. 33. 
Yar. a. and $ . 
[ $ Mycalesis Eveiius, Hopff., op, cit, " 1855, P- ^4^) ^4 P- 394' 
pi. 25, ff. 5, 6(1862). 
$ Mycalesis caffra, lYallgrn., op. cit, 1857, p. 34. 
^ ^ Mycalesis jEvenus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 207, n. 120(1866). 
Ex}). al, ($) I in. 8-1 1 lin. ; ($) i in. 10 lin. — 2 in. i lin. 
$ Dark-brown, tiiiged luith yellow-oclireous ; a common submarginal 
darker line; fore-wing with a small, Hack, luhite-pupilled, sid^apical 
ocellus, ringed with pale dull ochrey-yelloivish, and {usually) a larger, 
similar, less distinct ocellus hettveen first and second median nervides. Fore- 
wing: beyond extremity of discoidal cell, an indistinct, rather suffused, 
short, transverse, dull ochrey-yellowish streak ; subapical ocellus between 
radial nervules ; between the two ocelli a more or less indistinct dull 
pale-ochrey-yellowish suffusion ; lower ocellus sometimes very indistinct, 
and almost as small as the upper one, — rarely quite obsolete ; a small 
elongate sac touching lower edge of submedian nervure, about middle. 
Hind-wing : without markings ; along costa a smooth glistening grey- 
ish-white space, wider nearer base, and on its lower edge, springing 
from subcostal nervure close to base, a tuft of long whitish hairs, suc- 
ceeded by a similar tuft of rather shorter fuscous hairs on second sub- 
costal nervule. Under side. — Basal halves of wings dark-hroiun {darker 
than upper side), sharply defined externally hy a thin, creamy-yellowish, 
slightly-sinuate streak, from costa of fore-iuing to inner margin (near 
anal angle) of hind-iuing ; outer halves very pale yellowish-brown, marked 
with distinct white-pupilled black ocelli, with yellow iris encircled with 
dark-brown ; an inner sharply-dentated and an outer slightly-sinuated 
submarginal dark- brown streak common to both wings ; surface gener- 
ally, but especially outer portion, with a more or less distinct violaceous 
gloss. Fore-wing : across middle of discoidal cell a narrow pale-brown 
streak with darker edges (often indistinct and sometimes obsolete) ; a 
little before this streak an all but obsolete similar shorter one ; lower 
ocellus large and conspicuous ; occasionally one or two minute (usually 
imperfect) ocelli adjoining eacli of the two constant ocelli ; beyond the 
pale streak bounding dark basal half, some more or less developed 
brown clouding, which, uniting with the enlarged lower portion of the 
inner submarginal streak, forms an almost complete ring about (but at 
some little space from) the larger ocellus ; a rather wide inner-marginal 
space, from base to beyond middle, shining-silvery, marked with, the 
same little sac that is seen on the upper side. Hind-iuing : seven 
