MYCALESIS. By Dr. C. Aurivill'ms. 
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inner margin straight or weakly incurved, distally it is more or less broadly bordered with whitish or 
yellowish; on the hindwing the median line is weakly and irregularly undulated and there also usually light 
margined, although more narrowly than on the forewing; an inner transverse line across the middle of the 
cell stands out more or less prominently on both wings. In the marginal area are placed on the forewing 
two eye-spots, a large one in cellule 2 and a small in cellule 5; the former has a large white pupil, which 
is placed more or less excentrically, and a ring which is often rust-yellow on the posterior side; the hindwing 
has 7 eye-spots, which are all small and in cellules 4—6 are occasionally only indicated by white dots, the 
spot in cellule 2 is always somewhat larger than the rest; in the dry-season form the forewing is more or 
less broadly red-brown beneath at the distal margin, especially in the ?. Expanse 35—40 mm. German and 
British East Africa and on the Island of Johanna in the Comoros. — socotrana Btlr. is somewhat smaller, socotrana. 
34—38 mm., has the ground-colour of the under surface more grey, the eye-spot in cellule 2 of the forewing 
beneath quite round and those in cellules 2 and 3 of the hindwing of almost equal size. The pupil of the 
eye-spot in cellule 2 of the hindwing is not excentrically placed. Island of Socotra. 
M. vicaria Thar, is very similar to the preceding species. The wings above brownish, in the 2 lighter vicaria. 
grey-brown, with two distinct, white-pupilled and yellow-ringed eye-spots on the forewing, a larger in cellule 
2 and a smaller in cellule 5. In the d the mealy spot in cellule 1 a of the forewing is larger and more 
distinct than in anynana , distally tapering to a point, almost coniform; the pencil in the cell of the hindwing 
is yellow-brown and that in cellule 6 blackish. The under surface is yellowish grey or brown-grey, darker in 
the basal area, not or indistinctly striated; the median line is distally margined with light grey, on the 
forewing almost straight and on the hindwing somewhat undulated; the eye-spots are as in anynana , except 
that the one in cellule 2 on the forewing is circular and has the pupil in the centre. German East Africa, 
neglecta Thar, is the dry-season form and has the eye-spots on the under surface very small or only represented neglectu. 
by white dots. German East Africa. 
5. Subgroup. 
d- as in the fourth subgroup the hindwing above has two hair-pencils near the costal margin, one in the cell 
and one in cellule 6. The species of the fifth subgroup, however, differ from those of the preceding one in having the basal 
part of the forewing above either with dense, long hairs or with distinct pencils. 
M. martius F. (27 f). The wings are short and broad and the distal margin of the forewing more martins. 
rounded than in the other species; in the cf the hindwing is distinctly angled at vein 3. d: the wings above 
very dark black-brown; the forewing before the distal margin a little lighter and with two rounded, blind, 
black spots in 2 and 5, before the middle with two broad, posteriorly directed hair-pencils, one in the cell 
and one in cellule lb; the mealy spot in cellule la is broadly rounded and placed before the middle of vein 
1, almost directly behind pencil lb; the pencils of the hindwing are brownish. On the under surface the 
brown-black area is sharply separated from the violet-grey, somewhat glossy marginal part; in the latter 
there are on the forewing 2—5 and on the hindwing 7—8 black, white-pupilled yellow-ringed eye-spots, 
of which the one in cellule 2 on both wings is larger than the others. The 2 is much lighter above than 
the d, grey-brown with a distinct grey-yellow band and much larger blind eye-spots on the forewing; beneath 
the marginal part is also much lighter than in the d, grey without violet reflection. This easily recognizable 
species is distributed from Ashanti to Angola, Uganda and German East Africa. 
M. vulgaris Btlr. (27 g). d: wings above dark brown, tinged with grey at the apex of the forewing; vulgaris. 
the forewing with long hairs in the cell and in the basal part of cellule lb; vein 1 near the base distinctly 
curved anteriorly and at the posterior side with an elongate, distally pointed mealy spot, which is almost 
entirely covered by the hairs of cellule lb; the under surface is finely striated and irrorated with brown, 
with darker basal area, the median line almost regularly angled or undulate; the eye-spots, two on the 
forewing and seven on the hindwing, are in the dry-season form all or some of them punctiform, in 
the rainy-season form, tolosa Plotz , although never large, yet fully developed. Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda, tolosa. 
M. angulosa Btlr. (27 g) is very similar to the preceding species, but somewhat lighter; in the d the angulosa. 
mealy spot in cellule la on the forewing is placed behind the middle of vein 1 and is short, oblong, 
proximally rounded and distally pointed. 
M. funebris is distinguished from all the other species by having the pencil in the cell of the hind¬ 
wing in the d small and whitish, while the one in cellule 6 is deep black, and attached for a long distance 
along vein 6, forming a sort of row of bristles. The wings are above deep dark brown, before the apex 
