About Mycalesis perseoides (Moore)
This butterfly form Mycalesis perseoides closely resembles Mycalesis mineus in both wet-season and dry-season specimens. Just like M. mineus, the arrangement of ocelli on the underside of the hindwing separates M. perseoides from Mycalesis perseus. M. perseoides differs from M. mineus in the male sex-mark on the underside of the forewing: this sex-mark is longer, broader, and coloured ochraceous brown instead of black. A series of what is interpreted as a variety of this form from Kathlekan, Mysore is held in the British Museum Collection. All specimens in this series are males, and all belong to the dry-season form. They are uniformly smaller than typical M. perseoides. They differ from typical M. perseoides on the upperside of the forewing by the very broad pale iris surrounding the median ocellus, and on the underside of the forewing by the margin of the darker basal wing portion being prominently concave just above the dorsal margin. The male sex-mark on the underside of the forewing of this variety is larger than the same structure in M. mineus, but matches M. mineus in colour. The author has not been able to separate Mycalesis intermedia Moore even as a variety from Mycalesis perseoides Moore.
