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MYCALESIS. Bg Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
funebris. 
uebulosa. 
agr aphis. 
matuta. 
saussurei. 
aurivillii. 
abnormis. 
erysichton. 
nandina. 
of the forewing more or less lighter and in the ? with small, white-pupilled and yellow-ringed eye-spots in 
cellules 2 and 5. — funebris Guer. is a pronounced dry-season form in which on the under surface the 
marginal area at the apex of the forewing and on the hindwing is lighter than the basal area and has distinct 
eye-spots only in cellules 2 and 5 of the forewing and lc and 2 of the hindwing. Senegal. — nebulosa Fldr. 
(27 f) is also a dry-season form, but has small eye-spots in all the cellules on the underside of the hindwing 
and on both wings a light, violet-brown marginal area, sharply separated from the basal part. Sierra Leone 
to Uganda. — agraphis Karsch (27 f) is the rainy-season form and differs in the complete development of 
the eye-spots beneath and the darker marginal area on the under surface, which is sometimes not separated 
off at all from the basal part. Sierra Leone to Gaboon. 
6. Subgroup. 
The only species of this subgroup differs from all others in having on the forewing above a sharply defined, pure 
yellow subapical band, which extends from the costal margin to vein 3 or 2, becomes gradually narrower posteriorly and 
is feebly curved. The hindwing of the c? above with a long yellow hair-pencil in the cell. 
M. matuta Karsch (27 g). Wings above brown without eye-spots, the forewing in the middle broadly 
blue-black to the yellow transverse band. The under surface with uniform dark brown basal area, which on 
the forewing projects angularly distad at vein 4, but on the hindwing is almost straight-edged; in the 
grey marginal area are placed on the forewing 2 and on the hindwing 7 white-pupilled, brownish-ringed 
eye-spots. Ruwenzori. 
7. Subgroup. 
The species belonging here differ from all others in having the wings spotted with white above. On the under 
surface of both wings a broad white transverse band runs between the dark basal area and the eye-spots. 
M. saussurei Dew. (27 g). The wings above with a common white transverse band, extending from 
vein 4 or 3 on the forewing to vein 2 on the hindwing and becoming broader posteriorly; the forewing 
above with distinct, white-pupilled eye-spots in cellules 2 and 5, the hindwing with similar eye-spots in 1 c 
and 2; on the under surface the forewing has 2—4, the hindwing 7 eye-spots. Congo region in the interior; 
German East Africa; British East Africa: Kavirondo and Uganda. 
M. aurivillii Btlr. is similar to the preceding species, but differs in having the basal part of the 
wings above blackish, in the forewing having only small white spots in cellules 3 and 4 and only blind, 
indistinct eye-spots and the hindwing having only a rather large white spot between veins 3 and 6, but no 
eye-spots; the eye-spots on the under surface almost exactly as in saussurei ; the species is larger than 
saussurei and has the fringes chequered with white and brown, on the hindwing strongly undulate. In 
the cT the hind wing has only one hair-pencil, the pencil in cellule 6 being absent. German East Africa; 
Ruanda and Ruwenzori. 
The following species are unknown to me and are so incompletely described that it is impossible to arrange them 
in the above groups or subgroups. I therefore quote them here as an appendix. 
M. abnormis Dudgeon differs from all other African species in the elongate hindwing and the uniform 
dark velvety brown colour of the under surface of both wings, which are unmarked as far as to the small 
eye-spots. Both wings above dark brown; forewing indistinctly hairy in the cell, before the apex with a 
light subapical band, which begins near the costal margin, extends to vein 3 and encloses a black spot in 
cellule 5. Hindwing posteriorly produced and elongated, in the cf with a light brown pencil in the cell. On 
the under surface both wings have a light marginal line and the subapical band of the forewing is extended 
to the apex; the forewing has two small white-pupilled eye-spots in cellules 2 and 5 and the hindwing similar 
ones in cellules lc, 2, 5 and 6. Ashanti, in dense forest. 
M. erysichton Ehrmann is of almost the same shape as sanaos. Wings above mouse-brown, a little 
lighter at the inner margin of the hindwing, the forewing with black scales at the hindmargin. The under 
surface is unicolorous brown from the base to somewhat beyond the apex of the cells, somewhat lighter than 
above; then follows a sharply defined, irregular, dark brown transverse line from the costal margin of the 
forewing to the inner margin of the hindwing; in the cell of the forewing there is a dark transverse line; 
the marginal area is olive-coloured, somewhat mixed with brown; the forewing has a larger eye-spot in 
cellule 2 and three smaller ones joined together in cellules 4—6; hindwing with 7 eye-spots, of which the 
one in cellule 2 is the largest; all the eye-spots white-pupilled. Liberia. 
M. nandina Ansorge (— ansorgei E. sharpe). Shape as in evadne. Both wings dark velvety brown, 
a little lighter towards Itie distal margin, beneath with the first three-quarters dark velvety brown, 
