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LEPID OP TER A IN DIO A. 
glandular patch of blackish, lustreless scales,. Underside pale ochreous-brown, tinged 
with violaceous-brown externally. Both wings crossed by a straight discal narrow 
dark brown line, which is externally bordered by a broad more or less violaceous- 
white fascia; submarginal sinuous line and marginal line dark brown. Forewing 
with a linear series of five prominent ocelli, the four upper being small and the lowest 
large, the uppermost being situated between the subcostal and upper radial, and the 
lowest between the middle and lower medians, each having a dark brown ring outside 
the yellow iris; sometimes a minute black dot, or incipient ocellus, is visible between 
the lower median and the submedian vein ; posterior margin broadly nacreous-white 
from the base to beyond the band and with an elongated dark brown glandular patch 
on middle of the submedian vein. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, of which 
the lower fifth is large, the others small, each outwardly ringed with brown. 
Female. Upperside paler and duller coloured than in male; the transverse pale 
discal fascia of underside slightly visible, but broader; the marginal lines dark 
brown. Forewing with the five, sometimes six, dusky ocelli of the underside in¬ 
distinctly visible, each with a white pupil. Hindwing with the ocelli of the under¬ 
side indistinctly visible, each with a white pupil. Underside paler than the upper- 
side ; the transverse discal line and violaceous-white fascia broad and prominent; 
marginal lines dark brown. Forewing with five, sometimes six, ocelli, of which 
the lower fifth is the largest, and the lowest minute. Hindwing with seven ocelli ; 
all the ocelli, on both wings, with a brown ring outside the yellow iris. Body 
beneath, legs, and lateral streaks on palpi, pale ochreous-brown. Antennae with 
ochreous-yellow club, banded with black. 
Expanse, $ 1|- to 2^-, $ 2| to 2-| inches. 
Habitat.- —Tenasserim. Malayana. 
Distribution. —A single example of the female (figured on our Plate 73, fig. 2b), 
and now in Mr. F. D. Godman’s Collection, was taken at Meetan, in Upper Tenas¬ 
serim, by Mr. A. 0. Hume. The type specimen of the male, figured by Hewitson, 
is from Singapore, where it was collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Other males are 
recorded by Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malay, pp. 416, 417) from Sungei Ujong, and 
Perak, in the Malay Peninsula. It has also been taken in Sumatra, and Nias Island; 
and Mr. W. B. Pryer obtained it in Borneo. 
All the males of this species (including the Singapore type) have the large 
rounded glandular patch of lustreless scales on the median area of the upperside of 
the hindwing ; as is also the case in examples from Borneo, though this patch is 
omitted to be described or figured by Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malay, p. 49, pi. 5, fig. 4) 
in treating of M. Orseis. In some Bornean examples, the transverse fascia, on the 
underside of both wings, is less palely violescent-white than in others. Of the 
identity of the Hewitsonian i¥. Orseis with the M. Nautilus , I have satisfied myself 
