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margins paler, bearing two very fine brown lines. Cilia cinereous. Forewing with 
three very small (the posterior rather the largest) blind black ocelli, one each in the 
two discoidal and upper median interspaces, each surrounded with a fine outer yellow 
line ; a similar large ocellus in the same straight line as the other ocelli, and touching 
the lowermost, in the first median interspace, which it slightly overlaps, centred with 
a minute silvery pupil. Hindwing unmarked. Underside, both wings ochreous- 
yellow, the basal darker than the outer half; a prominent perfectly straight discal 
band, not quite reaching the costa of the forewing nor the abdominal margin 
of the hindwing, this band is formed of an inner dark-brown line which becomes lost 
in the ground-colour, outwardly sharply defined by a whitish line, which also soon 
becomes lost in the ground-colour ; beyond this prominent discal band is a nebulous 
band of a darker shade than the ground, and bearing in the forewing four, and 
in the hindwing seven, pale blue most minute dots, one in each interspace, these 
being the pupils of obsolete ocelli; a waved submarginal band.” 
“ Wet-Season Form. —Male. Upperside, both wings brown, the extreme outer 
margins paler, bearing two wavy brown lines. Cilia cinereous. Forewing with a 
single round black ocellus in the first median interspace, beyond which it does not 
extend, pupilled with white, with a narrow outer pale ring. Hindwing unmarked. 
Underside, both wings brown, the outer margin bearing two yellowish waved lines, 
the disc crowned by a narrow perfectly straight pure white band which does not 
quite reach the costa of the forewing nor the abdominal margin of the hindwing. 
Foreioing with four ocelli enclosed in a single outer yellowish line, the two upper 
ocelli equal sized, the third the smallest, the fourth and lowest the largest. Hindiving 
with seven ocelli, also enclosed by one line, of which the first (uppermost), the fourth 
and the fifth are the largest, the third and the seventh equal sized and the smallest.” 
Expanse, 2 inches. 
Habitat. —Upper Burma. 
ce The dry-season form of M. mystes is easily recognizable by the curious 
ochreous-yellow colour of the ground on the underside, but the wet-season form is so 
precisely similar to many specimens of the same season form of M. (Calysisme) 
mineus, that it might be easily confounded with that species. The male, however, 
has the conspicuous tuft of black hair on the upperside of the hindwing, springing 
from near the base of the submedian nervure, which is characteristic of this sub¬ 
genus, and is not found in Oalysisme, and by which it can be easily recognized. In 
the subgenus Loesa, this tuft is yellow not black, and springs from the middle 
instead of near the base of the submedian nervure. The females of the wet-season 
form of M. mystes will, probably, be difficult to recognize, as in neuration and mark¬ 
ings they will, probably, be found to be almost exactly like M. mineus.” (de Nice- 
ville, l. c.) 
