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MYCALESIS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
elevation of 4000 ft., with the white median band on. the underside of both wings twice as broad, also larger 
nicotia. and paler, adorned with larger ocelli than nicotia Hew., which occurs from the North-West Himalayas to the 
Khasia Hills and has on the underside of the forewing a brown-filled androconial cavity (recalling mineus and 
langi. malsara), which becomes smaller in examples of the rainy-reason form. The latter is much rarer than langi 
Nicev., the dry-season form. The rainy-season form bears on the finely marbled under surface four eye-spots 
on the forewing and seven on the hindwing, of which the anal one on the forewing and the subanal on the hind¬ 
wing are the largest. In langi the eye-spots are reduced to a few vestiges, which as in nicotia are separated 
by a yellowish band from the basal part of the wings. 
misenus. M. misenus Nicev. nearly approaches nicotia, but is essentially darker beneath, and shows a brown 
instead of black hair-tuft at the androconial cavity of the hindwing above. Moreover the scent-area on the 
underside of the forewing is larger and paler. Only the rainy-season form is known as yet; misenus is extremely 
rare both in Sikkim and Assam. — sericus Leech (vol. I, p. 82, pi. 29 c) is a local form from western China. 
heri. M. heri Moore is a species from the western. Himalayas so nearly allied that I should unite misenus 
with it as a local form if Bingham had not remarked that the scent-area on the under surface of the forewing 
was entirely absent. The species is unknown to me in nature, but if Bingham’s observation proves to be correct 
heri must be united with the mnasicles group. But like misenus, heri bears a brown hair-pencil on the upper- 
side of the hindwing. Doherty has discovered the form without eye-spots in the Kumaon Himalayas. Forewing 
according to Moore’s figure with a smaller apical and a very large anal ocellus on the hindwing. Upper surface 
of the hindwing with two subanal eye-spots of equal size, the under surface with a chain of seven yellow-ringed 
ocelli. 
mestra. M. mestra, the largest Indian species, breaks up into two local races, mestra Hew. (92 c), from Assam, 
bears a strongly reduced androconial cavity on the underside of the forewing, so small, indeed, that it does 
not contain any scales, but only forms a bare, vitreous hollow. Under surface finely marbled with brilliant, 
shining white longitudinal bands of ecpial breadth. Forewing with two apical ocelli and a somewhat larger 
veins, anal one, hindwing the same, but with an accessory anal eye-spot. — vetus subsp. nov. is a smaller race from 
Bhutan, with the median band on the forewing above nearly obsolescent in the Under surface darker, longi¬ 
tudinal band at the costal margin very thin, also on the hindwing narrower than in Assam examples. Is occa¬ 
sionally also found in Sikkim, where it occurs from May to August from 5—7000 ft. 
suaveolens. iVL suaveolens Wood-Mas. differs considerably from mestra above in the presence of a medium-sized 
black, white-pupilled apical ocellus and a much larger anal one, but more narrowly margined with yellow. On 
the kind wing the delicate white distal border is absent and on the underside of the forewing the fine greenish 
hatching so characteristic of mestra. Rare in Sikkim and Bhutan, where it occurs up to about 1000 m., pre¬ 
ferring the dense woods, and flies from March to July. As in mestra, a form without eye-spots has not yet been 
karjhut. observed. - kagina Fruhst. (92 c). <$: smaller than suaveolens Wood-Mas. from Bhutan. Anal ocellus of the 
forewing larger, median band on the under surface of the wings much narrower. $ somewhat larger and paler 
than the p, above with two fine, but dull yellow antemarginal lines on the hindwing. Formosa, flying from 
June to August at about 3—4000 ft. 
malsarida. M. malsarida Btlr., hitherto only known from Assam, where it inhabits the Khasia and Naga Hills, 
is above unicolorous black, towards the apex slightly lighter, and with indistinct brown anteterminal lines. 
Under surface as in inopia Fruhst. (91 a), only with considerably larger ocelli. Androconial cavity on the under¬ 
side of the forewing very small, not larger than in perseus, filled with black. Hindwing with thin, black or brown 
hair-pencil and a slightly glossy, long-haired basal scent-spot which extends into the cell. Two seasonal forms: 
khasiana. malsarida Btlr. (rainy season), khasiana Moore (dry season). Under surface of both wings only blackish basally, 
the whole distal part grey with purple or violet tinge. The ocelli reduced to minute dots. 
M. gotama, an East Asiatic collective species, which inhabits the Japanese islands from Hondo onwards, 
has spread from Central and West China to Annam and Upper Assam. Four subspecies are known: gotama . 
Moore (vol. I, p. 81, pi. 29 c), originally described from Shanghai, with yellowish white longitudinal band on the 
under surface of the wings; borealis Fldr. is a form with the median band somewhat darkened proximally. Ja¬ 
panese examples are certainly different from Chinese, yet the examples collected by me in Nagasaki still show 
the yellowish longitudinal band on the underside mentioned by Moore. But together with these occur already 
fulginia. somewhat larger specimens (fulginia form, nov.) with more distinct apical ocellus on the forewing, more distinct 
yellow bordering to this ocellus and broad violet median band. Also the series of eye-spots on the hindwing 
seriphu-s. more strongly expressed. — seriphus subsp. nov. Essentially different from the Kiushiu form is the race from 
the main island of Japan, easy to distinguish from southern, gotama by the dark grey-black instead of yellowish 
green colouring of the under surface, the considerably reduced ocelli and beneath by a thread-like longitudinal 
band, and blackish powdering. These characters are shared both by dwarfed forms, of which Seitz figures 
one (vol. I. pi. 29c 5) and of which l have examples before me from Hakone, and also by others which are not 
