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MYCALESIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
baurnanni. 
dubia. 
dentata- 
cooksoni. 
milyas. 
pavonis. 
with 8 eye-spots, a small punctiform one in cellule lb, two in cellule lc and one each in 2—6; the eye- 
spots are black, white-pupilled, with a grey and a dark brown ring; ground-colour of the marginal area rather 
dark violet-grey, cd: the pencils of the hindwing deep black; the mealy spot on the forewing pear-shaped or 
elliptical, placed at the middle of vein la and distinctly raised. Togo. — baurnanni Karsch (27e) only differs 
in the lighter, more white-grey marginal area of the under surface and the smaller eye-spots of the hindwing; 
the marginal area of the forewing more or less yellowish-scaled in cellules 3 and 4. Togo. 
M. dubia Auriv. (27 b). Both wings with the distal margin strongly undulate or dentate, cf: wings 
above unicolorous blackish without markings, before the apex of the forewing and at the distal margin a 
little lighter; beneath unicolorous dark brown to beyond the middle, the dark colour projecting angularly 
distad, as in the ?, but on account of the dark ground-colour of the marginal area not so distinctly defined 
as in the ?; the eye-spots as in the ?; hindwing above with a light pencil in the cell and a black one in 
cellule 6; forewing without mealy spot in cellule la. $: ground-colour of the upper surface lighter brown, 
the forewing with yellowish-brown subapical band before the apex, a yellowish spot in cellule 3 and a rounded 
black eye-spot in 2 and 5; on the under surface the basal part is dark brown and divided by one or two 
violet-grey transverse lines, distally with angled or conical projections at the veins and especially at vein 4; 
the marginal area is violet-grey and is ornamented in cellule 4 of the forewing with a conspicuous yellow 
spot; the forewing has a large eye-spot, in cellule 2 and a medium-sized one in cellule 5; the hindwing with 
8 eye-spots, a small one in lb, two in 1 c, and one each in 2—6; the spots in cellules 2 and 3 are larger 
than the rest; the eye-spots are black with white pupils and have a yellow and a dark brown ring. Cameroons. 
dentata E. Sharpe is the East African race and differs in having the eye-spot in cellule 3 of the hindwing 
very small and smaller than the one in cellule 4, the forewing beneath with three small eye-spots before the 
apex (in cellules 4—6) and above without a spot in cellule 3, the cd is above dark brown like the ? and not 
velvety black. British East Africa: Kikuyu, Kavirondo and Uganda. 
M. cooksoni Druce. Wings above dark brown, the forewing with a large black, white-pupilled eye- 
spot in cellule 2, a smaller one in 5 and a sharply defined yellowish white subapical band, which is widened 
in cellule 3, but does not reach the distal margin. Beneath both wings, but especially the hindwing, have 
nearly throughout a fine transverse striation; the basal area of the forewing is black-brown, almost rectangularly 
bent outwards at vein 4 and adorned with two light transverse lines in the cell; the marginal area is in the 
middle light yellow without striation and bears a large eye-spot in cellule 2 and a small one in cellule 5 and 
in cellule 6; the basal area of the hindwing is distally bordered by an undulate and weakly curved line, the 
marginal area is finely striated all over and encloses 7 small punctiform eye-spots. Bhodesia. — Druce does not 
mention the pencils of the hindwing in his description, hence the systematic position of the species is not quite certain. 
M. milyas Heiv. (27 g). c?: the wings above grey-brown, somewhat lighter at the distal margin of the 
forewing, in cellule 2 of the forewing with a black eye-spot; the pencils of the hindwing deep black, the forewing 
with long, narrow mealy spot in cellule 1 a, close to vein 1; on the under surface the forewing has 4 dark trans¬ 
verse lines in the cell and the hindwing a dark transverse line across the middle of the cell, the median line 
is distally bordered with grey-violet, on the forewing almost straight and on the hindwing also straight or 
somewhat excurved; the eye-spots are black, white-pupilled, with a violet-grey and a blackish ring and are 
placed on each wing in two groups, each of which is surrounded by a grey-violet, elliptical ring; on the 
forewing there are in the anterior group a larger eye-spot in cellule 5 and a small indistinct one in each of 
cellules 4 and 6 and in the posterior group a large eye-spot in cellule 2 and a small, punctiform spot in 
cellule 3; on the hindwing the posterior group embraces the large eye-spot in cellule 2 and the small ones 
in 1 c and 3 and the anterior group small eye-spots in 4 and 5 and a much larger one in cellule 6, which is 
almost as large as that in cellule 2. Distributed from Togo to the Congo, the White Nile and Abyssinia. 
M. pavonis Btlr. is distinguished from the other species by the clean, sharp markings and colours of 
the under surface and recalls the Pararge species, cf: upper surface unicolorous grey-brown, the forewing 
with a black blind eye-spot in cellules 2 and 5; the pencils of the hindwing black; the mealy spot in cellule 
la of the forewing long and narrow, indistinct; the ground-colour of the under surface pure grey all over 
without striation and scarcely darker in the basal part; the basal area of the forewing with 4 black transverse 
lines in the cell and on the hindwing with an undulated black transverse line across the middle of the cell, 
touching the base of veins 2 and 7; the median line on the forewing slightly, on the hindwing strongly 
undulated; the black, white-pupilled eye-spots have a yellow-grey and a black-brown ring and are surrounded 
by a grey area; the forewing has two eye-spots, in cellules 2 and 5, the former the larger; the hindwing has 
7 eye-spots, two in 1 c and one each in 2 — 6, those in cellules 2 and 6 are of almost the same size and much 
larger than the rest; the one in cellule 3 is often indistinct or streak-like. From Adamana to Abyssinia. 
