MYCALESIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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M. anisops Karscli (27g). cT: wings above dark brown, the forewing with an eye-spot in cellule 2 
and a smaller, indistinct spot in cellule 5; the pencils of the hindwing dark brown; the mealy spot in cellule 
1 a of the forewing elongate, distally pointed; the under surface with dark brown, unicolorous basal part, the 
boundary of which on the forewing is feebly curved distally and on the hindwing somewhat irregular; the 
eye-spots are black, with bluish pupils, and have a yellow, basally red or red-brown, ring and a black-brown 
one; this species differs from all the other African Mycalesis in having the rings partly red; the forewing has 
three eye-spots, in cellules 2, 5 and 6; the hindwing has 7 eye-spots, of which the one in cellule 2 is much 
larger than the others and those in 5 and 6 of the same size; the spot in cellule 3 is small, punctiform, or 
entirely absent. The 2 is somewhat larger and lighter than the cf, but otherwise similar. — Cameroons. 
M. ena Hew. cf: wings above uniform dark grey-brown, the forewing with two very distinct, black, 
white-pupilled eye-spots ringed with dull yellow, a larger one in cellule 2 and a small one in cellule 5; the 
pencils of the hindwing black; the forewing close to vein 1 with a very fine and long, streak-like mealy 
spot; the under surface finely striated with brown almost all over, the median line of the forewing almost 
entirely straight and vertical, distally margined with grey, that of the hindwing irregularly undulated and 
especially in cellules- 2 and 6 emarginate; the eye-spots are black, white-pupilled, with a grey-yellow and 
a dark ring; the forewing has a large eye-spot in cellule 2 and a small or occasionally indistinct one in 
cellule 5; the hindwing with 7 eye-spots, of which those in cellules 2, 3 and 6 are of equal size and somewhat 
larger than the rest. The ? is somewhat larger, but otherwise similar to the cf; small eye-spots occasionally 
occur also in cellules 3, 4 and 6 on the underside of the forewing. Nyassaland and German East Africa, 
kigonserae form. nor. is the dry-season form and only differs in having the eye-spots small or punctiform; 
the one in cellule 2 of the fore wing, however, appears to be always large. German East Africa. 
M. desolata Btlr. (= leptoglena Karscli). Upper surface of the wings grey-brown; forewing in the cT 
with a round, black, non-pupilled spot in cellule 2, in the ¥ in addition with a similar spot in cellule 5; 
under surface grey-brown, somewhat striated with violet, at the apex speckled with yellowish, for the rest 
very variable; basal area darker with slightly undulate, fairly straight boundary line, narrowly margined distally 
with whitish or yellowish; distal area of the forewing with 4 or 5, of the hindwing with 7 small black eye- 
spots, broadly surrounded with grey, enclosed by brownish ring and so appearing very large, all more or 
less distinctly white-pupilled; hindwing of the cf above at the costal margin glossy with two black pencils. 
Sierra Leone to Angola and Abyssinia. - - selousi Trim, is probably only a southern race of desolata. cf; 
upper surface dark brown-grey with or without black eye-spot in cellule 2 of the forewing; the latter in 
cellule 1 a somewhat before the middle of vein 1 with a broadly oval, raised mealy spot, to which corresponds 
on the under surface a sharply defined chalk-white spot; the pencils on the upperside of the hindwing 
yellow-brown; the under surface is distinctly but sparsely covered with small, fine, dark streaks; the eye-spots 
are small and punctiform without rings or occasionally only represented by the white pupil; forewing with 
only two eye-spots, of which the one in cellule 5 is often absent. The ¥ is larger and has a more distinct, 
often white-pupilled eye-spot in cellule 2 on the forewing above. Mashonoland and German East Afrika. 
M. safitza Hew. is the commonest and best known Mycalesis and occurs everywhere on the continent 
of Africa south of the Sahara, cf: wings above dark brown; forewing before the apex tinged with yellowish 
and with two very prominent black, white-pupilled and yellow-ringed eye-spots, a larger one in cellule 2 (this 
is occasionally absent or indistinct, = ab. semicoeca Strand) and a smaller in cellule 5; in cellule la at 
or somewhat before the middle of vein 1 a short and broad, raised mealy spot, which, however, does not 
occur on the underside as a chalk-white spot; the pencils of the hindwing brown; the basal area of the 
under surface is dark brown with or without transverse line and distally bounded by an even, nearly straight 
median line more or less broadly margined with whitish; the eye-spots stand out sharply and are black with 
white pupils, have a yellow and a dark brown ring and are surrounded by a violet-grey area; the forewing 
has a large eye-spot in cellule 2, a smaller one in cellulle 5 and occasionally also a still smaller in 4 and 
in 6; the hindwing with 7 eye-spots, of which those in cellules 2, 3 and 6 are larger than the others. The 
¥ is larger, has larger eye-spots on the upperside of the forewing and a very distinct median line also on 
the forewing above, evenus Hpff. (27 e) is the dry-season form and has the eye-spots smaller or punctiform 
or even indistinct — aethiops B. & J. differs in having the median line on the forewing bent so as to reach 
the costal margin vertically and the median line on the hindwing running more irregularly. South Abyssinia. 
M. danckelmanni Bog. is about the same size as the preceding species and very similar to it, but 
differs especially in having the median line of the under surface obtusely angled at Vein 4 on the forewing 
and on the hindwing with a ventricose projection distad between veins 3 and 5 (quite as in fuelleborni [27 g]). 
cf: wings above black brown, the forewing broadly lighter before the distal margin and with a larger eye- 
anBops. 
ena. 
kigonserae. 
desolata. 
selousi. 
safitza. 
semicoeca. 
evenus. 
aethiops. 
danckel¬ 
manni. 
