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usually frequent the patanas away from jungle. It some- 
times comes to toddy or sugar. 
14. MycALEsIs (CALYSISME) PERSEUS DYE RRNS Ee Caly- 
sisme perseus, M., De N., B. Moore also gives blastus which 
is the wet season form. Evans separates typhlus as the 
Indian and Ceylon race, restricting Perseus to Kangra and 
Burma. It is smaller than perseus, and the ocellus on the 
fore wing is usually absent in the wet season form. 
It varies very greatly in the number and size of the ocelli 
both on the upper and under surfaces, and some specimens 
are difficult to separate from the next species (MM. polydecta). 
It is very common at Haldummulla, on grass by the road- 
sides, or on patanas, and I have found it equally plentiful 
at Elpitiya, in the Southern Province, on patana, very little 
above sea level. I have also taken it at Galle and from 500 
to over 5,000 feet in Uva. I have never seen it in the Northern 
Province. The wet and dry season forms usually fly together. 
It comes to sugar occasionally. 
15. MycaLEsis (CALYSISME) MINEUS POLYDECTA, B., E. 
Calysisme mineus, M., De N. 
Also found in India. Bingham says: ‘There are no 
constant characters by which this race may be distinguished 
from M. mineus.”” De Nicéville gives polydecta from Burmah, 
Sumatra and Celebes and says: “It is doubtful whether this 
species really occurs in India,’’ but in a small pamphlet 
published by the late Col. Manders and De Nicéville on Ceylon 
butterflies, he revises this opinion and gives our form as 
polydecta. 
It is extremely variable in every respect, and some 
varieties are difficult to distinguish from M. typhlus. Those 
taken on patanas in Uva from 500 to 2,000 feet elevation are 
usually larger and much more conspicuously marked than 
those from higher elevations. 
It is very plentiful in Uva, on patanas or on grass by the 
roadsides. I have taken it also at Galle but it is very rare 
there. It is easy to breed as the females lay eggs freely in 
captivity 
