. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. MYCALESIS. 61 58. Mycalesis rama, Moore (Calysisine), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 196, pi. 57, figs. 3, 3o,cJ. Wet-season form.— 6 • Upperside deep umber-brown, quite different from the dull vandyke-brown of M. mineus and allies ; subterminal and terminal lines on the wings very indistinct. Fore wing with two white-centred fulvous-ringed ocelli; the posterior much the larger. Hind wing with a small similar ocellus in interspace 2. Underside paler and brighter, the basal two-thirds darker than the terminal third, its outer margin sharply defined by a dark br
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. MYCALESIS. 61 58. Mycalesis rama, Moore (Calysisine), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 196, pi. 57, figs. 3, 3o,cJ. Wet-season form.— 6 • Upperside deep umber-brown, quite different from the dull vandyke-brown of M. mineus and allies ; subterminal and terminal lines on the wings very indistinct. Fore wing with two white-centred fulvous-ringed ocelli; the posterior much the larger. Hind wing with a small similar ocellus in interspace 2. Underside paler and brighter, the basal two-thirds darker than the terminal third, its outer margin sharply defined by a dark brown fine line ; apical third somewhat ochraceous, with subterminal and terminal slender brown lines. Pore w7ing with two, hind wing with seven ocelli, similar to the three on the upperside ; on the hind wing the ocelli are placed in a curve, the subtornal two and apical ocelli the largest, the tornal and preapical two very small, somewhat indistinct. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen umber-brown ; the antennae bright ochraceous at apex. Sex-mark in form 2, on the underside of the fore wing composed of greyish specialized scales difficult to see against the nacreous background. Exp. S 56 mm. (2-22"). Hah. Ceylon. 59 Mycalesis adolphei, Guerin (Satyrus), Delesse?'t,Voy. dans I'lnde, pt ii, 1843, p. 76; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 123; Moore (Telinga), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 210, pi. 71, figs. 1, 1 a-1 c, tf $. <3 2 - Upperside dark umber-brown. Fore wing with a large, white-centred, fulvous-ringed black median ocellus and a white-centred preapical much smaller black spot. Hind wing uniform, a post- median series of from two to four white- centred fulvous-ringed black ocelli, sub- equal and smaller than the posterior ocellus on the fore wing. Underside: ground-colour similar, but irrorated with obscure transverse striae of a deeper Fig. 18.—Mycalesis brown ; the terminal margins of both fore adolphei. an(j y^ wiDgS veiy broadly paler; the dark basal portion
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