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bordered with yellowish, sometimes hroadly so : the ocelli are small and arc often entirely 
eliminated. 
In male examples of the summer brood the pupil of ocellus on primaries 
varies in size, as also does the yellowish iris in intensity. The females of this 
generation do not exhibit quite so much variation in size of pupil of ocellus, 
but the iris is sometimes very bright yellow and well defined ; towards anal 
angle there are often two or three faintly defined ocelli. 
The spring form is more constant above, but the coloiu' and markings of 
underside are subject to considerable modification. None of the specimens 
are, however, quite identical with the Indian forms of this sjiecies known as 
visala, Moore, and indistans, Moore. 
Occui's at Chia-ting-fu ; Chang-yang ; Ichang ; Hong-Kong ; Foochau ; 
throughout North-east and South India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Malay Peninsula ; 
Andaman and Nicobar Isles ; Sumatra and Java. 
Mycalesis perdiccas. (Plate ll. fig. 6, $ .) 
Mycalesis perdiccas, Hewitson, Esot. Butt. iii. {Mycalesis) pi. iii. fig. 15 (1862) ; Pryer, 
Rliop. Nihon. p. 30, pi. ix. fig. 2. 
Gareris perdiccas, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1880, p. 157. 
Mycalesis penicillata, Ponjade, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. exxxv. 
M. penidllata, Pouj. — " Envergure : 48 mill. Dessus d'un brun terreux. Ailes superieures 
entieres, assez arrondies, ayant un grand ceil noir pupille de blano et cercle de jaunatre pres 
de I'angle interne entre les deux derniores branches de la nervuro mediane. Un pincean de 
polls noirs presque au milieu de la nervure sous-mediane. Ailes inferieures arrondies, tres 
leguremeut dentees, avec un trt'S petit ceil noir pupiUe de blanc pres de Tangle interne ; un 
pinceau de polls raides, d'un blanc jaunatre, a la base de la cellule. Dessous des aUes avec la 
base, jusqu'aux deux tiers environ, d'un brun nettement limite' sable de jaunatre ; le reste, gris 
rose, se fondant en une teinte olivatre tres tinement sabk'e du brun vers les bords externes. 
Aux aUes supe'rieures, un oeil correspondant a celiii du dessus, surmonte de un a trois petits 
yeux noirs pupillcs de blanc ; aux ailes inferieures, pres du bord exterieur, sept yeux tres 
petits iiiegaux, dont le plus grand correspond a celui du dessus. Les quatre ailes bordees de 
deux lignes brunatres fostonnoes, la moins marquee centre la frange. 
" Cinq (J un peu varies." (Foxjade, 1. c.) 
The Chinese representatives of this species vary in the number and size of 
the ocelli on under sui-i\ice, in the intensity of colour of basal two thirds, and 
in the width of the pale transverse band, which, in some specimens, is without 
any lilacine tinge. One of these forms, which so far appears to be peculiar 
