342 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



far as the middle of the submedian interspace, placed on the 

 underside of the wing. Hindwing, coda arched at base, then 

 almost straight to apex ; outer margin slightly curved, gently 

 scalloped; abdominal margin almost straight; precostal urn are short, 

 simple, directed towards the apex of the wing ; costal nervure short, 

 not reaching to the middle of the costal margin, regularly curved 

 throughout its length ; first subcostal nervule carved, arising just 

 before the apex of the cell, and terminating at the apex of the 

 wing ; second subcostal nearly straight, ending on the outer margin 

 below the apex ; discoidal cell short, its lower end not reaching to 

 the middle of the wing ; disco- cellular nervules almost straight, 

 strongly outwardly oblique, the lower a little longer than the upper ; 

 third median nervule strongly curved ; second median originating 

 immediately before the lower end of the cell} submedian nervure straight, 

 distinctly swollen towards the base for some considerable portion of 

 its length, ending just anterior to the anal angle; internal nervure 

 short, recurved ; a large patch of androconia about the apex of the 

 cell, occupying a considerable area in the subcostal interspace, the 

 base of the first and second subcostal interspaces, and extending into 

 the apex of the cell ; a strong tuft of hairs of a brown colour arises- 

 from near the base of the cell and is directed outwardly, lying 

 across the anterior portion of the androconial patch ; there is also a 

 second strong tuft of hairs of a black colour arising, close to the 

 base of the submedian nervure and lying along the swollen portion 

 of that vein. Eyes hairy. Antcniue a little less than half the length 

 of the costa of the forewing, with a rather large, well-formed club. 

 Type, Mycafesis (Myrtilus) mystes, de Niceville. 



This subgenus falls into Mr. Moore's third group of the 

 subgenera of Mycalesis* which possesses two tufts of hairs on the 

 hindwing in addition to a glandular patch of scales differently formed 

 to those on the rest of the wing (androconia), and another patch on 

 the forewing. This group has hitherto contained one subgenus 

 only, Loesa, Moore, which shares (as far as Mr. Moore's diagnoses 

 tell us, in numerous cases the veinlet in question is not mentioned at 

 all, as Mr. Moore never seems to describe his genera on any recog- 

 nised or constant plan) with Lohora, Moore, — a subgenus of the 



* Trans. Enfc. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 177. 



