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minute, and all encompassed by the pale outer constricted line, as in the male ; very 
rarely a specimen of the female occurs in which the three ocelli only are present, and 
more rarely still with the upper and lower only. Hindunng with the seven ocelli 
as in the male. Body dark brown, sides of the palpi cinereous. 
Expanse If to If inch. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 59, fig. 2, 2a, £ 2b, c, cl, e, $ ). 
Papilio Perseus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 488 (1775), $ „ Donovan, Ins. of New Holl. pi. 26, fig. 3 
(1805). 
Myealesis Perseus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 719, fig. 2; Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 133 
(1868); Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 33 (1869). 
Calysisme Perseus, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Bond. 1880, p. 163 ; P. Z. S. 1882, p. 237 ; Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Loncl. Zool. 1886. p. 32. 
My ealesis ( Calysisme) Perseus (part), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 120, 
(1883). Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 114. 
Papilio Tabitha, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. III. i. p. 243 (1793). 
Satyrus Zopyrus, Kollar, FliigeTs Beise Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 450 (1814), £. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown; the outer margins, and 
cilia cinereous-brown. Forewing with the transverse discal band blackish, but in¬ 
distinct; a small black median ocellus with white pupil but no outer yellowish ring.' 
Hindiving with one, sometimes two, minute blackish subanal spots, the upper of 
which is between the middle and lower medians and is sometimes white pupilled; a 
sub-basal radiating tuft of yellow hairs overlapping a small glandular patch of blade 
scales . Underside various shades of violescent greyish-brown, speckled with darker 
brown, the basal area darkest, the transverse sub-basal and discal line more or less 
indistinctly defined, the latter sometimes slightly pale bordered externally, the discal 
line on both wings also having a small black inner point and a pale yellow outer 
point on each vein; a more or less indicated submarginal series of slender points or 
denticules. Forewing with four minute more or less distinctly defined submarginal 
white-pupillecl blackish spots ; and a small glandular patch of blade scales on middle 
of the submedian nacreous area. Hindiving with seven very small black spots with 
white pupil, or sometimes with more or less developed small ocelli, of which the 
upper one and the three lower are generally the most distinct or more developed. 
Female. Larger than the male. Upperside. Foreiving generally with the 
transverse discal line more defined, the median ocellus somewhat larger, and some¬ 
times a minute subapical ocellus is present. Hindwing as in male. Underside of 
similar colour, and brown speckled, as in male ; the transverse discal line with points 
on each vein ; the minute ocelli or dots the same. 
Expanse <S If to If, ? If to 2f inches. 
Habitat.— Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern India ; Ceylon ; Burma; 
Malayana. 
