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the last quarter lighter brown with a row of eye-spots with grey-brown rings; the forewing with 5, the 
hindwing with 7 ocelli, of which the first four are the smallest. The hindwing is more produced than usual 
at the anal angle. British East Africa: Nandi. 
5. Genus: Henotesia Btlr. 
The species of this genus have been often regarded as Mycalesis, but are distinguished at once from 
all true Mycalesis by the densely hairy eyes. On the continent of Africa only a few species occur, but there 
are a large number which are peculiar to Madagascar and many others belong to the Indo-Malayan Region*). 
Tire early stages are only known of one species ( narcissus , see below). The numerous species may be 
divided into four groups. 
First Group. 
The upper surface of the wings at least in cellule 2 of the forewing with distinct eye-spot. Distal margin of the 
hindwing entire or regularly undulate. 
A. Species of Continental Africa. 
1. Subgroup. 
cd: the hindwing above without light spot at the base of the inner margin and without black hair-pencil near 
the base of vein 1 b, but at the costal margin with a pencil in the cell. — The antenna not or only indistinctly 
ringed with white. 
H. perspicua Trim. (28a). Wings above dark grey-brown; the forewing with two black, white- perspicua. 
pupilled eye-spots broadly ringed with red-yellow (or grey-yellow), a very large one in cellule 2 and a smaller 
in cellule 5 (in the ? and also in the cd, ab. amanica Strand, there are also sometimes small punctiform amanica. 
ocelli in cellules 8 and 4), the hindwing with 2—4 similar, but small eye-spots in cellules 2—5, at the distal 
margin lighter, brown-grey with two sharply prominent submarginal lines. On the under surface the basal 
part is grey-brown, distinctly and finely striated or irrorated with rust-brown and with distinct brown 
transverse line across the middle of the cell; the marginal area is lighter grey and is separated . from the 
basal part by a uniform, nearly straight dark brown median line distally broadly bordered with whitish or 
yellowish; the forewing has 2 and the hindwing 7 well developed eye-spots; these are black with white 
pupils and have an inner yellow and an outer dark brown or rust-coloured ring; the outer ring of the large 
eye-spot in cellule 2 of the forewing seems to be always rust-brown or rust-yellow; before the distal margin 
two distinct dark submarginal lines and before the eye-spots of the hindwing an abbreviated, sometimes 
very broad dark transverse band. Occurs from the Congo to Natal and from there to British East Africa 
and Abyssinia. — maevius Stgr. (28 a) is the dry-season form and only differs on the under surface in having maevius. 
all the eye-spots except the one in cellule 2 of the forewing indistinct or punctiform; on the upper surface 
the eye-spots are developed as in the type-form. In the same localities as the type-form. — ab. submaevius submaevius. 
Strand is said to agree above with maevius but beneath with the type-form. German East Africa. 
H. victorina Westw. Very similar to the preceding species, somewhat smaller, above somewhat lighter victorina. 
with smaller eye-spots, but especially distinguished by having the under surface uniform brown-grey, both 
in the basal and the marginal area without striation and without transverse lines across the cell; the 
median line, as in perspicua , is straight and uniform and distally bordered with whitish, but is narrower 
than in the latter; at the distal margin two whitish grey lines separated by the outer submarginal lines 
(the inner dark submarginal line is entirely merged in the ground-colour); the eye-spots have a yellow-grev 
ring, a grey-brown one like the ground-colour and an outer grey one, on the hindwing interrupted between 
the eye-spots, which may be regarded as the remains of the grey ground-colour of perspicua. Zambesi and 
German East Africa. 
H. ubenica Thur. (28 d) is another ally of perspicua and only differs in having the median transverse ubenica. 
line on the underside of the hindwing not even and entirely straight but weakly undulate and in cellule 4 
forming a small projection distad; also the median line of the forewing is not straight, but slightly curved 
in S-shape; the ground-colour of the undersurface is brownish yellow, with dark transverse striation all OA r er; 
the median line is fawn-coloured, distally margined with yellow; of the eye-spots on the under surface only 
the one in cellule 2 of the forewing is large, all the rest are small or indistinct; the eye-spots are black, 
with white pupils and yellow or brown ring, the black part is sprinkled with white scales. German East 
Africa. — uncinata Thur. seems to be the dry-season form; it has a fresh yellow ground-colour on the uncinata. 
*) On the relationship of Mycalesis to Henotesia, Culapa , etc. cf. Fruhstorfer, vol. IX, p. 332. 
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