12 NYMPHALID^. 
small but well-defined, the fourth much larger, black with white pupils and yellow i rides ; 
secondaries with seven ocelH of similar character, but surrounded by pale zones, the second, 
third, and seventh very small, the fifth largest. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 Hues." 
(Battler, I. c.) 
Tn addition to other sexual characters there is a patch of black hairs extending from base to 
middle of submedian nervure of secondaries. 
The female is rather paler in colour than the male, and the outer margins are more rounded in 
contour ; the ocellus on primaries is larger and the yellow iris broader ; there is a small 
ocellus in the first median interspace of secondaries. 
Var. parva, var. nov. (Plate II. fig. 3.) Rather smaller than the type ; the colour is darker and 
the ocellus is smaller ; on the under surface the colour is greyer and the ocelli are larger. 
In this form there is usually only one distinct ocellus near apex of primaries, but sometimes 
there are indications of others below it ; the pale zones are well defined on the fore wings, 
but on the hind wings the ocelli are preceded and followed by whitish lines ; marginal lines 
on all the wings whitish. 
This species appears to have two forms ; the typical race is generally distri- 
buted throughout China, and the other, Avhich I have described above as 
var. parva, has so far occurred only at Omei-shan in Western China. The 
type in the National Museum at South Kensington is from Mongolia. 
Mycalesis mineus. (Plate II. fig. 7, var. c? .) 
Papilio mineus, Liniiseiis, Syst. Nat. 1. pt. 3, p. 768 (1767) ; Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. -188 
(1775). 
Satyrus mineus, Goclart, Euc. Meth. p. 510 (1819). 
Mycalesis mineus, Butler, Cat. Lep. B. M., Satyridte, p. 135 (1868) ; Marshall & de Nice- 
\'ille. Butt. Ind. i. p. 117 (1882) ; de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soe. Beng. Iv. p. 235 
(1886). 
Calysisme mineus, Moore, Traus. Eut. Soc. Load. 1880, p. 162 ; Lep. Ceyl. pi. xi. figs. 4, 
4="?, 4" (J (1880). 
" P.D. aUs integerrimis subfuscis : subtus posticis oeellis septem ; antieis duobus : supra unico." 
(Linnceus, I. c.) 
There are two distinct forms of this species in China. One of tliese has 
the markings of the type, but the primaries are more rounded, the apex is 
obtuse, the outer margin of secondaries less emarginate, and the colour of all 
the wings greyer ; the other form, which occurs in the spring, is similar in 
shape and in the colour of upper surface, but, as it differs in colour and pattern 
of under surface, I describe it as : — 
Var. COnftlcius, var. nov. (Plate II. fig. 7.) Under surface violet-grey, the basal two thirds of all 
the wings darker ; the inner transverse line is indistinct, and the outer transverse line is always 
