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inferior in size to the largest Kiushiu specimens. According to Seitz very common in Central Japan from June 
onwards among Cryptomeriae in the sacred groves of the Japanese. — madjicosa Btlr. (92 d) describes a dark- madjicosa. 
ened satellite-island race with smaller eye-spots, which only show a scarcely appreciable yellow bordering. 
The median band on the under surface deeper yellow and broader than hi examples from Hondo and Kiushiu. 
In my collection from Oshima and Ishigaki. — nanda Fruhst. is a still smaller race, $ above with more strongly nanda. 
expressed yellow bordering to the ocelli, whence the eye-spots appear larger than in madjicosa. But in the 
$ the eye-spots are much smaller, and the longitudinal band on the underside of both wings considerably narrower. 
From Tainan in the lowlands, flying in October, and from Horisha in the mountainous interior of Formosa. - 
charaka Moore was separated from gotama on account of the larger ocelli on the upperside of the forewing. But charaka. 
the eye-spots on the under surface, particularly those of the hindwing, are on the contrary smaller than in go¬ 
tama. oculata Moore is the form of the dry period, almost without eye-spots. Previously only known from oculata. 
Assam and from Bhamo, charaka was found by me in Tonkin and Annam in the lowlands and up to about 
400 m. in the months of June to August and November—December.—Parallel with gotama Moore and within 
the same geographical limits occurs a second species which is constantly confused with it. This is the darker 
perdiccas Moore, a species with scent-tuft on the submedian of the forewing. 
M. unica Leech (vol. I, p. 81, pi. 29 c), only known as yet in one $, may perhaps prove to be an aber- unica. 
ration with the apical ocellus of the forewing beneath enlarged and the anal eye-spot absent; the strongly wi¬ 
dened discal band suggests a product of the rainy season. Mupin, China. 
M. moorei Fldr. (92 b). This very distinct species is as yet only known from Java, and even there 
I only met with it hi the east of the island up to about 2000 ft. moorei is a forest species, but is occasionally 
also found in coffee-gardens, especially during the rainy season when the weeds are luxuriant. On moorei Moore 
based his genus ,,Indalasa li , which as a matter of fact does not differ in anything from Calysisme. The forewing 
shows beneath at the anal margin of the base a proximally pointed, distally widened, elongate spot covered 
with grey specialized scales. The androconial cavity is the same size as in mineus L. and is filled with blackish 
scales. Upper surface of the hindwing with relatively large androconial hollow, which contains grey-brown 
scales and over which projects a thin yellowish white pencil of radiating hairs. There are two very well defined 
seasonal forms of moorei, namely: forma, temp. pluv. moorei Fldr., which its author figures, with one large and moorei. 
2—3 small ocelli on the forewing and seven distinct ocelli on the hindwing beneath, and forma temp. sicc. kolita kolita. 
Fruhst. Under surface: distal margin of both wings lighter, the ocelli of the forewing either entirely absent 
or reduced to dots. 
M. aramis Hew. (92b) nearly approaches nala Moore from Java in the scheme of markings on the aramis. 
under surface of the wings, but belongs to quite another series of species on account of its primitive secondary 
sexual organs. It bears no scent-organ at all on the upperside of the forewing. The friction-patch on the under 
surface is narrower than that of mineus, but longer, and bears in the middle only a few scarcely visible brown 
scales, which are rather loosely placed and do not form a complete spot. The scent-area of the hindwing is long, 
narrow, and bounds, above the cell, a long, deep black scale-spot, somewhat obliquely sloped distally, such as 
occurs in no other Inclo-Malayan Mycalesis yet known. The usual scent-pencil of the hindwing is rather thin, 
longer and darker than in mineus The ground-colour above a peculiar red-brown, much as in merops Sm. 
and persa Sm. from the small Sunda Islands. Between the lower medians is placed a medium-sized black, white- 
pupilled ocellus. On the hindwing two black dots show through from the under surface. The distal part of the 
wings is a little lighter than the basal area. Under surface: similar to nala Moore, both wings dark red-brown 
to the sharply defined whitish submarginal band. Marginal area brownish with a black antemarginal zigzag 
line. The submarginal band, which runs much as in nala, whitish with a somewhat flesh-coloured tinge, cost ally 
broader, anally narrowing a little. On the forewing two white dots, on the hindwing a row of six very small 
ocelli. Luzon, apparently a mountain form. 
M. kina Stgr. is distinguished by a grey-scaled, long, narrow, pointed scent-streak, which on the under kina. 
surface of the wings runs from the distal part of the friction-patch (from the submedian onwards) obliquely 
downwards in a proximal direction. The upper surface resembles M. ustulata (93 a), but is somewhat lighter 
brown, bearing, however, the same black, round, non-pupilled eye-spot on the median ax’ea of the forewing. 
Under surface dark grey-brown with very broad, deep red-brown longitudinal bands. Forewing with two minute 
apical ocelli and a large anal one, hindwing with a series of seven eye-spots, of which the subanal is the largest, 
with white pupil and margined with a beautiful yellow. From amoena Druce, which occurs with it and belongs 
to the tagala group, kina differs in the larger eye-spots and the lighter brown-grey distal area of both wings. 
Examples from Kina Balu are somewhat smaller than taken by Everett in Lawas, more in the lowlands. 
M. thyateira spec. nov. belongs like kina and amoena to the endemic species of Borneo, and although ihyateira. 
distributed over the whole island it must be very rare, for Shelford does not mention it in his catalogue of 
the Borneo butterflies. The types are in the Staudinger collection, where I discovered this very distinct new 
species in the autumn of 1910. above very near to kina and amoena, but light fawn-coloured. Forewing 
