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MYCALESIS. By Dr. ('. Aurivillius. 
uniformis. 
miriam. 
pnnctifera. 
dorothea. 
melusina. 
concolor. 
sophrosyne. 
istaris. 
of which that in cellule 2 is the largest and that in cellule 3 the next in size; all the eye-spots are white- 
pupilled and have a yellow, a blackish and a violet-grey ring. The ? is above lighter, grey-brown, and has 
before the apex of the forewing a broad, indistinctly defined whitish subapical band. Liberia to the Congo and Uganda. 
M. uniformis Beth.-Baker. Only the cY is described of this species, which is unknown to me. The 
description runs: ”cf. Both wings uniform darkish brown. Primaries with a very small obscure white-pupilled 
black spot near the apex; secondaries with a blackish-brown tuft of hairs just below the angle of vein 2 
between lb and 2, in addition to the tuft above the cell. Underside: both wings pale ochreous hrown: primaries 
with a large cell-spot faintly outlined; a median obscure line and a distinct postmedian one, the latter palely 
edged; the subapical spot of the upperside showing through and having a pale yellowish iris; a similar spot, 
rather larger, between veins 2 and 3, between these are traces of two other similar spots: secondaries with a 
dark irregular median and postmedian line enclosing a slighter darker area, the postmedian line is palely 
edged externally; a series of 7 subterminal white-pupilled black spots, with pale yellowish irides, which are 
edged with darker brown and again with pale obscure ochreous. Expanse 55 mm.” Upper Congo at Makala-Beni. 
M. miriam F. (27 d). Both wings above unicolorous grey-brown without markings (the eye-spots of 
the under surface, however, show through), in the c? with slight violet reflection; forewing with the margins 
almost entire, hindwing with the distal margin slightly undulate; under surface at least in the basal part with 
distinct brown transverse striae, median line undulated and distally more or less distinctly margined with white- 
grey; the eye-spots black, with white pupil and a yellow, a dark brown and a yellow-grey ring; the forewing 
with a larger eye-spot in cellule 2 and a smaller in cellule 5; the hindwing with 7 eye-spots, of which those 
in cellules 2 and 3 are larger than the rest and those in cellules 4—6 small and of uniform size, cf: hindwing 
above with the usual pencils at the anterior margin of the cell and in cellule 6 and in addition with a long- 
pencil in cellule 1 c close to the -hindmargin of the cell. Gaboon, Congo and Nyassaland. — In punctifera 
Strand the eye-spots on the under surface are reduced to dots. Ruanda. 
M. dorothea Cr. only differs in the more rounded wings, the darker upper surface and the darker and 
more sharply marked under surface from the normal widely distributed form. Sierra Leone. — melusina F. 
(27 d) nearly agrees with miriam in size, shape and the markings of the under surface, but the ground-colour 
is much lighter, whitish grey, cf: the forewing above in the middle and the hindwing in the basal part mostly 
even more relieved with grey than in the figure; hindwing with a light, yellowish pencil at the anterior margin 
of the cell and usually also with a small, dark pencil in cellule 6; in cellule lc close to the hindmargin of 
the cell there are some long blackish hairs, which form a narrow pencil. The ? is usually unicolorous grey- 
brown above, but may also he coloured almost like the cf (= ? ab. concolor Auriv , from Fernando Po). 
— Sierra Leone to Angola. 
3. Subgroup. 
The hindwing of the cf with only a single hair-pencil, which is attached in the cell close to its anterior margin, 
but sometimes in the basal part with long, appressed hairs. The forewing or the hindwing in the first four species with a 
black mealy or velvety spot; in the fifth species the entire basal half of both wings deep velvety black. 
M. sophrosyne Plotz (= plotzi Bartel), cf: wings above dark brown, at the distal margin and before 
the apex of the forewing somewhat lighter, forewing in the middle with a large, irregular black velvety spot 
which covers the proximal part of cellules 2 and 3, as well as the adjoining parts of cellules lb and 4; 
on the under surface the basal part is unicolorous dark brown and distally bordered by a slightly darker 
median line, with violet-grey distal margining; the median line is almost regular, on the forewing distinctly 
curved and on the hindwing weakly excurved between veins 3 and 5; in the violet-grey, brown-spotted marginal 
area there are on the forewing 2—3 and on the hindwing 5—6 eye-spots; these are black, white-pupilled and 
with a yellow and a dark brown ring; the spot in cellule 2 is larger than the rest and of the same size on 
both wings, the one in cellule 3 is absent and that in cellule 4 of the hindwing is small or absent; the spot 
in cellule 6 of the hindwing is somewhat larger than the one in cellule 5; but the one in cellule 6 of 
the forewing much smaller than that in cellule 5. The ? is lighter than the cf. — Cameroons and Congo. 
M. istaris Plotz. cf: the wings above uniform black-brown, not. or scarcely lighter at the distal margin 
and before the apex of the forewing; the forewing near the hinder angle with a large, rounded black velvety 
spot, chiefly placed in cellule 2; the under surface in the basal part deep, unicolorous black-brown without 
markings, distally bordered by a black, white-edged median line, the median line is uniform, on the forewing 
almost straight and on the hindwing scarcely appreciably curved; the forewing with a larger eye-spot in 
cellule 2 and a small one each in 5 and 6, the hindwing with 7 eye-spots, two in cellule 1 c and one each 
