10 NYMPIIALID^. 
double line of the ground-colour. Outer margin of secondaries bluish grey, intersected b}- a 
■wavy line of the ground-colour. A snbmarginal series of from five to seven ocelli, with white 
pupils and reddish-brown irides, of which the second, third, and seventh, counting from the 
anterior margin, are often very faint. Internal to the ocelli is a series of Ijluish-grey 
crescents. 
Head, thorax, and upper surface of abdomen black. Legs and under surface of abdomen dark 
chocolate. Antennae black, chequered with white beneath ; tip and underside of club deep 
orange. 
Expanse, S 55-58 millim., 5 50-54 millim. 
Except that the nan'ower blue fascia on primaries of the female resembles 
the same character in Bicyclus iccius, Hew., and that the general colour of 
the wings on upper surface is something like that of Mycalesis martiics, Fabr., 
this insect is quite distinct fi'om any known species, and appears to be 
without any close ally. 
Occurs in Central and Western China, but it is local and not very common. 
Genus MYCALESIS. 
Mycalesis, Hiibnei', A''erz. bek. Sclimett. p. 51 (1816) ; Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. 
p. 392 (1851). 
" Body slender, finely hairy. Wings rather large, plainly and uniformly coloured, those of the 
males generally with a tuft of hairs on the upper side. 
" Head rather small, with a small conical tuft of hairs in from 
" Eyes naked, prominent. 
" ^nimnw scarcely half the length of the fore wings, very slender; joints scarcely distinct ; 
terminated by a long but very slender club . 
" Labial palpi porrected oblitjuely ; the tip elevated rather above the level of the top of the eyes, 
and advanced in front rather farther than the length of the head, very slender ; the first 
and middle joints sparingly clothed beneath with long, porrect, delicate bristles ; the 
middle of the second joint is also clothed on the back with a tuft of short hairs ; terminal 
joint very slender, acute at the tip, short, and scarcely setose. 
" Thoeax rather small, rather compressed, and very convex. 
" Fore ivinr/s with the costal margin strongly arched. Apex rounded. Apical margin varying 
from slightly convex to slightly concave, entire, about three fifths of the length of the 
costal. Inner margin about one fourth longer than the apical, rather dilated in the 
male. Costal vein strongly swollen at the base. Postcostal vein with the first and 
second branohea arising from the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, which extends 
to the middle of the wing. Upper discoceUular vein very minute ; middle one longer, 
curved, rather obliquely directed towards the base of the wing ; outer discoceUular much 
longer, strongly arched, united with the third branch of the median vein at a short 
distance from its origin. In the species in which the base of the median vein is not 
swollen, the space between its first and second branches is much longer than usual, the 
