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Dry-Season Brood (Plate 57., fig. 2, 2a, $). 
Mycctlesis Charaha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 566. 
Sctdarga Char aim, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1880, p. 158. 
Mycales ( Saclarga ) Char aha, Marshall and de Niceviile, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 109 (1883). 
Calysisme Peribcea, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Hat. Hist. 1885, p. 301, ? (nee Fabr.). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside ohvaceous-ochreous-brown, outer borders 
palest, with a dark submarginal and marginal lunular line. Forewing with two very 
prominent bright-coloured ocelli, the upper or subapical the smallest (and sometimes 
bi-pupilled, consequent upon the fusion beneath of a minute ocellule), the second or 
lower very large, fully a quarter of an inch in diameter, each with a distinct white 
pupil and ochreous-yellow outer ring. Male above with a slight appressed tuft of 
brown hairs overlapping the small glandular patch of scales on the middle of the sub- 
median vein. Hindwing with a small indistinct ocellus between middle and lower 
median veins; a slight glandular tuft of ochreous hairs radiating from below base 
of first subcostal over the swollen base of the second subcostal. Underside paler 
oclireous-brown basally, cinereous-ochreous externally, divided by a nearly straight 
transverse discal darker brown line; tw^o shorter brown subbasal zigzag lines on 
forewing, and one on the hindwing; both wings with a slender blackish submarginal 
sinuous line and a less defined marginal line, and a brown transverse shade passing 
through the ocelli. Foreiving with a linear series of three, sometimes four, subapical 
minute ocelli, and a small though larger lower ocellus between the medians, the 
white pupil of the latter being large, hemispherical, and occupying nearly the whole 
black area. Male beneath with a small glandular patch of dark-brown scales near 
middle of the submedian vein. Hindioing with seven very small ocelli, the three 
upper disposed in an outwardly oblique linear series, the fourth minute, fifth the 
largest (though small), the sixth and seventh also minute. 
Expanse, S If, ? 2 inches. 
Habitat. —Silhet; Cachar; Naga Hills ; Upper Burma. 
This species is very similar in appearance to the Chinese species, S. Gotama, 
but may be distinguished from the latter by the greater size of the ocelli on the 
upperside of the forewings and the smaller size of those on the underside of both wings. 
Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate No. 57, figs. 1, la, b, c, are of 
the male and female wet-season brood, and figs. 2, 2a, that of a male of the dry- 
season form. 
Distribution. —This species is recorded from Silhet. It occurs in Cachar, and 
the Naga Hills. Dr. Gf. Watt (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, 301) obtained a single female 
of the dry-season brood on the border of Assam. According to Major C. H. E. 
Adamson (List of Burmese Butterflies, 1889, p. 7) the dry-season form “ was very 
abundant at one spot in the Bhamo district in November. 53 
