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MYGALESIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius 
evadne. 
oblemairei. 
halyma. 
asochis. 
M. evadne Or. (27 b). cf: both wings above unicolorous dark black-brown with bluish reflection 
without eye-spots or other markings, beneath with two somewhat uneven, but almost parallel lighter trans¬ 
verse lines; the eye-spots with an inner yellowish brown and an outer dark brown ring and surrounded by 
a lighter area; the forewing has a larger eye-spot in cellule 2 and a smaller in cellule 5; the hindwing has 
two eyerspots in cellule 1 c and one each in cellules 2—6, but none in lb; the eye-spots of cellules lc—-5 
are placed in an almost straight line, but the anterior one, in cellule 6, much nearer to the base than the 
others; the cf differs from all the other species in having veins 6 and 7 on the hindwing united into a 
thickened stalk at their origin. The ? is larger than the cf, above lighter and with a grey-yellowish 
transverse band on the forewing between the costal margin and vein 3 or 2 and with distinct eye- 
spots on the forewing; beneath the markings are lighter and more sharply expressed, but otherwise 
similar to those of the cf; veins 6 and 7 of the hindwing are not stalked, but arise from the same 
point. Sierra Leone to Gaboon. 
M. noblemairei Janet is unknown to me, but seems from the description to be scarcely different from 
evadne. “cf: above black-brown with a dark steel-blue reflection like that of the Euploeids. Beneath rust- 
brown with a violet transverse band, between which and the distal margin there is an area wherein are placed: 
1. on the forewing two black, white-pupilled eye-spots ringed with yellow, brown and violet, of which the one 
at the apex is smaller; 2. on the hindwing a row of 7 similar eye-spots, the violet rings of which, however, 
are confluent : reckoning from the anal angle, the third is the largest, the fourth vestigial and the seventh 
placed far proximally to the line formed by the rest, and smaller than the third, but larger than the others. 
Expanse: 42 mm. ? unknown' 1 . French Congo. 
M. halyma F. The under surface with whitish or light grey ground-colour; all the eye-spots on the 
underside of the hindwing in an almost straight line, cf: wings above unicolorous dark brown with slight 
violet tinge, before the distal margin with two dark lines; the hindwing at the inner margin near the base 
with a black-grey mealy spot divided by vein I a; the under surface with two quite straight and even brown 
transverse lines and a curved line before the eve-spots; these are black with white pupils and have a 
yellow and a brown ring; the forewing with 5 eye-spots placed in a straight line in cellules lb — 5; the 
hindwing with 7 such spots; the spot in cellule 2 on both wings somewhat larger than the rest; before the 
distal margin two brown undulate lines. The ? is larger and has a whitish subapical band on the fore¬ 
wing. Sierra Leone and Liberia. 
M. asochis Hew. (27 c) is distinguished by having both wings above white to far beyond the middle, 
as also the ground-colour of the under surface, cf: upper surface with the costal margin of the forewing to 
vein 4, the inner margin of the hindwing to vein lb and a broad marginal band on both wings black-brown: 
near the base of the inner margin of the hindwing is placed as in halyma a large mealy spot covered with 
hairs; under surface yellowish in the basal part, the transverse lines fine and pale, on the hindwing yellowish; 
before the eye-spots a conspicuous bicurved brown transverse line; forewing with 2 eye-spots, hindwing with 
7 placed in a slightly curved row; the eye-spots with a yellow and a brown ring; at the distal margin three 
fine dark lines. The ? differs from the cf in having the wings above only darkened at the apex, with three 
dark marginal lines and a spot in cellule 2: beneath the transverse lines are indistinct or suppressed. Old 
Calabar to Angola, 
Safitza Group. 
Vein 7 of the hindwing in the cf arises midway between veins 6 and 8 or even nearer to 8, rarely somewhat 
nearer to 6, but never twice as far from 8 as from 6. Vein 7 is furthest removed from vein 8 in M. danckelmanni and 
tolosa. The forewing of the cf in almost all the species has in cellule 1 a close behind vein 1 a small, rounded or elongate 
mealy spot, raised like a wart or weal. — The numerous species of this group are often very much alike and the ?? especially 
can sometimes only be determined with difficulty if one does not also possess the corresponding cflcf- In order to facilitate 
the determination of the species I divide them into several subgroups, chiefly based on the pencils and mealy spots of the cfcf- 
1. Subgroup. 
cf : the forewing above near the hinder angle with a black, distally directed hair-pencil, divided by vein 1; the 
hindwing with hair-pencil only at the anterior margin of the cell, but at the inner margin in cellules la — ic with long 
hairs. Hindwing rounded. 
