MYCALESIS. By H. Frtthstorfer. 
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with yellow, especially on the forewing. Formosa, not rare and occurring from the southern point of the is¬ 
land (Taihanroku) to the central mountains (Chip-Chip), in July—August, from the plains up to 4000 ft. 
M. perseoides Moore. : sexual spots on the underside of the forewing longer, broader and lighter 
brown than in mineus. Scent-area of the hindwing with long, narrow androconial cavity, filled up with deep 
intermedia, black scales. The rainy-season form Moore has separately described as intermedia. Tavo subspecies are known: 
perseoides. perseoides Moore. (92 a), from Burma, Tenasserim, Chiem-Hoa, Tonkin, August and September, and taken 
by me at Than-Moi in June, perseoides is easy to distinguish from perseus and mineus by the narrower hindwing 
and by having the ocellus on the forewing above margined with much lighter and broader ochre-yellow. Under 
surface in both sexes a peculiar pale grey mixed with ochre-colour. The extreme dry-season form occurs from 
October to January in Siam and Annam, whilst in Tonkin examples of the rainy-season form were not rare 
igiUa. in July and August at about 300 m. — igilia subsp. nov., first noticed by Bingham, is of smaller size than northern 
perseoides and differs above in having a still broader yellowish iris to the ocellus of the forewing. The sexual 
spot on the under surface is broader than in mineus. From Mysore. 
subdita. M. subdita Moore approaches perseoides, but differs from it in having a double anal ocellus on. the under¬ 
side of the forewing. Sexual spot on the forewing beneath ochre-coloured, longer and broader than in perseoides, 
but not extending beyond the whitish median, band of the forewing. This species also occurs in. two seasonal 
forms, type from South India, at elevations of 500 to 1000 m. At Trincomali on Ceylon, the rainy-season form 
Avas found in August, the dry-season form in October and November. 
rama. M. rama Moore. $ above dark broAvn with black, white-pupilled ocellus, which is broadly margined 
with light yellow. Hindwing with a brown-yellow antemarginal line, otherwise unmarked. Above a large glossy 
scent-area a tuft of long yelloAv hairs. Under surface of a fine yellow-brown, colour, scheme of pattern and sexual 
marks as in perseoides. rama is one of the rarest species known. Moore only met with one example during all 
the years of his diligent collecting; de Niceville also only obtained, on. loan, a single specimen from Udagama. 
— There is one $ of the dry-season form in the Berlin Museum. I myself took one $ on Ceylon in the year 1889. 
M. visala is an aberrant form, differing from the species already dealt Avith in the position of the lower 
discocellular of the hindwing, which terminates before the separation of the upper and middle medians, thus 
basally and not distally as in perseus, mineus, etc. Hence the cell is broader and appears shorter than in the 
other species. The friction-spot on the underside of the forewing is broader than. in. mineus, extending beyond 
the median line, and possesses a very large central androconial cavity, which is filled with yelloAv scales. Scent- 
area of the hindwing with very large central hollow, filled up with yellow scales. Valve broad, Avith upturned 
lamellae, dorsally and ventrally thickened in the middle, finely denticulate, with dense bristles, tip chitinized. 
visala is easy to distinguish from all its allies by the pointed wings, the unusually large median ocellus of the 
forewing and the sharply angled hindwing. The rainy-season form strongly resembles mineus beneath and 
can only be certainly distinguished from it by the sexual spots, but the dry-season form is beneath more finely 
marbled and traversed by two sharply defined longitudinal bands (91 f). Only three subspecies have been 
visala. erected. — visala Moore, best knoAvn from Sikkim and Assam, also reported from Central and South India, 
ascends from about 400 to 1200 m. The dry-season form is commoner and is also brought to Europe in larger 
numbers than that of the wet season. The egg is mostly white, semitransparent and is laid singly or in clusters 
on both sides of a grass-stem. Young larva pale green, head black with two inconspicuous black horns. Adult 
larva after the last moult pale reddish, finely irroratecl with greenish and yellow, with pale green dorsal and 
oblique blackish lateral lines. The horns on the head now red, densely ornamented with small tubercles. Body 
neovisala. rough and likewise tuberculated. Pupa green, constricted behind the thorax. - neovisala Fruhst. (91 f) is con¬ 
siderably smaller than visala. Upper surface identical with visala. Under surface: sexual spot at the submarginal 
of the forewing darker than in. visala. and only half as long. Bordering of the ocelli and the grey median bands 
more prominent than in visala. Rainy-season form, Tonkin, Than-Moi, June to July; dry-season form, Tonkin, 
Chiem-Hoa, August, September, neovisala first begins to occur in Tenasserim, where I collected the form without 
eye-spots in May at elevations of about 1200 m., and Dr. Anderson took many examples in the MerguiArchi- 
andamana. pelago. — andamana Moore forms a retrogression to the mineus type in the more rounded wings and darker 
ground-colour, but differs somewhat from mineus and visala. in the position of the ocelli. The dry-season form 
is not entirely without ocelli like those of the continental races and the longitudinal bands are less distinctly 
expressed. Andamans, rather rare. 
oculus. M. oculus Marsh. (92 b). Androconial cavity on the forewing beneath rounded, of medium size, filled 
up AA r ith black scales, that on the hindwing above somewhat larger, likeAvise with black scales, covered by a very 
short, thin, grey-brown, radiating-hair-pencil. Under surface with narrower, red-yelloAV foreground to the 
