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verse discal band of the underside being slightly apparent. Underside generally 
paler, sometimes of a cinerescent tint; with a prominent transverse discal narrow 
white band, which does not reach either the costa of forewing or the abdominal 
margin of the hindwing, and a slender whitish submarginal and marginal wavy line. 
Forewing with a subapical and a larger lower median black ocellus with white pupil 
and ochreous ring, each also being again encircled by a narrow silvery-grey outer 
ring. Hindwing with two contiguous upper-apical similar ocelli, of which the 
anterior is the smallest, and a larger lower median ocellus, each also being again 
encircled by a metallic silvery-grey outer ring; this latter ring, in some specimens, 
encompassing both of the upper ocelli instead of there being a separate ring to each 
of them. Bod,y beneath and legs, paler ; sides of palpi whitish. 
Male, on the upperside of the forewing, with a tuft of hue long dusky hairs 
arising from within the circular base of and overlapping, or enclosed within, a narrow 
elongated glandular pouch or fold situated above the submedian vein; and on the 
upperside of the hindwing , with a tuft of delicate recumbent hairs situated above and 
below the base of the median vein. 
Expanse <J If to 2, $ If to 2§ inches. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 58, fig. 2, ? ). 
Mycalesis Runelca , Moore, Catal. Lep. Mas. East India Compy. i. p. 234 (1857), 
Orsotricena Runelca, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 1G0. 
Mycalesis ( Orsotricena ) Runelca , Marshall & de Mceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 112, pi. 16, fig. 
56, S (1883). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside uniform dark umber-brown; with pale 
marginal lines, and slightly apparent transverse discal narrow band, as in wet-season 
brood. Underside generally deeper coloured, and of a more ferruginous tint; the 
transverse discal narrow band more or less ochreous-white; in some specimens the 
band is defined only by a dark brown line with no visible white border; the ocelli of 
both wings are small, rudimentary, pale brown with ochreous-white pupil; sometimes 
those of the hindwing are more developed ; in others the ocelli are obsolescent, being 
defined only as darker brown spots with minute white pupil; the outer margin, 
especially of the hindwing, generally thickly irrorated with ochreous-grey scales. 
Male with the tuft of hair and glandular pouch on the forewing, and the tufts on the 
hindwing, as in the wet-season brood. 
Expanse If to 2f inches. 
Habitat. —N.-western, Central and Eastern India; Sikkim; Assam; Cachar; 
Naga Hills ; Burma; Nicobars; Malayana. 
Distribution. —This species has a very wide range beyond our limits. Within 
our area, its extreme western range recorded is Umballa, where the wet-season 
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