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Show 566 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Nov. 3, EPINEPHELE PULCHELLA,' Felder, Nov. Voy. Lep. p. 490, tab. lxix. fig. 16. Upperside vinous brown ; middle of fore wing in male dusky ferruginous, bright ferruginous in the female, enclosing a black subapical spot. Underside greyish brown : fore wing bright ferruginous in both sexes ; ocellus with a white dot: hind wing with narrow short dark brown strigaj, and crossed by a subbasal, discal, and submarginal row of dusky dentate lunules. Exp. 1| inch. Hab. Cashmere (Capt. H. B. Hellard). Differs from E. neoza, Lang, in being smaller, in the ferruginous on the fore wing being more distinct in the male, and in the absence of the transverse discal sinuous brown line on the fore wing. MYCALESIS KHASIANA. Male. Upperside dark vinous brown, paler at the apex and along exterior border; marginal lines black. Underside bright vinous brown, purplish grey along exterior border ; covered with minute black and grey strigse: both wings with a transverse discal narrow purplish grey band, and a distinct yellow narrow marginal black-bordered band: fore wing with five and hind wing with seven minute perfect ocelli. Exp. If inch. Hab. Khasia Hills (Major Godwin-Austen). MYCALESIS CHARAKA. Male and female. Upperside yellowish olive-brown, outer margins paler: fore wing with two very prominent bright-coloured ocelli, the upper one the smallest and sometimes with two white pupils, the lower ocellus fully a quarter of an inch in diameter. Underside pale olive-brown basally, greyish brown externally, divided by a nearly straight transverse discal brown line ; two sub-basal short zigzag brown lines on fore wing and one on hind wing ; both wings with a narrow black submarginal line, and a brown fascia or cloud passing through the ocelli: fore wing with a linear series of four minute subapical ocelli, and a small though larger lower ocellus, the white pupil of which is a half-circle and occupies nearly the whole of the black portion : hind wing with seven ocelli, the first three subapical, minute, and disposed in a linear oblique series, fourth very minute, fifth the largest (though small), sixth and seventh minute. Exp. If inch. Hab. N.E. Bengal. In Brit. Mus. and Coll. F. Moore. This species is very similar in appearance to M. gotama, but may be distinguished by the very considerable difference in the size of the ocelli beneath. Note.-The specimens of this species in the British-Museum collection stand as the representatives of Hiibner's M. otrea (Zutrage, f. 79, 80), which name Professor Westwood altered, in |
