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oval, exterior margin convex ; first sulicostal in male much curved upward at the base and 

 thence straight to apex, emitted at more tlian half distance before end of the cell, second very 

 concave from base of first to end of the cell, upper disco-cellular outwardly convex, lower 

 straight and oblique, radial from their middle ; two upper median branches emitted at some 

 distance beyond end of the cell. Male with a tuft of fine long hairs exserted over a glandu- 

 lar patch at end of subcostal nervure. Antennae with a well-formed slender club. Palpi 

 uniformly pilose beneath to tip. Eyes very slightly hairy." (Moon; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1880, p. 155). 



This group contains only two species, both Indian— the one confined to the Andaman 

 islands, the other inhabiting south India and re-appearing in a somewhat modified form in north- 

 east India and Burma. Both species are dark brown above, with a conspicuous white subapical 

 bar on the forewing ; this latter character distinguishes them at once from the other groups. 



E07 to the Species of Virapa. 



A. Males with a glandular pouch and tuft on both wings. 



a. a', a-. With a white subapical bar on the forewing. 



«'. With a large ocellus on the upperside of the forewing 



85. M. (Virapa) radza. South Andamans. 



b^. With no ocelli on the upperside, except faint indications in some specimens of tlia 

 ocelli of the underside showing through. 



86. M. (Virafin) anaxias, South and North-E.ast India, Burma. 



In describing M. anaxias, Hewitson noted as follows : "I have retained this species in 

 the genus Mycalesis, although the first disco-cellular nervule of the hindwing is very singularly 

 placed, taking its rise from the subcostal nervure near the base of the wing, and, instead of 

 crossing the wing transversely or obliquely, running down longitudinally, until it meets the 

 second disco-cellular nervule at the usual place." The type specimen was from the Nilgiris, 

 but no specimen that we have examined from that or any other locality presents this feature, 

 nor does Moore in the description of his genus Virapa notice it ; the nearest approach to it is 

 in the species described further on as M. anaxioides, though even in this the first disco-cellular 

 nervule takes its rise, not from near the base of the w ing, but from immediately beyond the 

 first subcostal branch. It is the subcostal nervure in the male only of M. anaxias which, 

 immediately after giving off its first branch, suddenly bows inwards, and then runs "down 

 longitudinally until it meets the" first, not "second disco-cellular nervule." 



85. Mycalesis radza, Moore. 



M. radza, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond , 1877, p. 583, pi. Iviii, fig. 2, male ; Virapa radza, id., Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 156. 



Habitat : South Andamans (Port Blair). 



Expanse: $, 19; ?, 7.1 inches. 



Description: "Male: Upperside dark brown. Forewing with a narrow, oblique, 

 subapical white band, below which is a large black ocellus with ochreous outer ring and a white 

 central spot. Hindzoing with a smaller and less distinct ocellus near middle of outer margin. 

 Underside brown. Foreiving with a more prominent white oblique band and lower ocellus, 

 two small geminate ocelli between the white band and apex. Hind7ving with an outer series 

 of seven prominent ocelli, enclosed within a narrow purple wavy line, the three upper and 

 seventh ocelli small, fourth and sixth larger, the fifth largest. Nearest allied to M. anaxias." 

 (Moore, 1. c) FEMALE : Larger, and lighter coloured above and below. The subapical band 

 of theyOr^ww^ twice as wide and a purer white, with the posterior subapical ocellus of the 

 fore-wing and the fifth ocellus from the apex of the hindiving showing through indistinctly by 

 transparency. Underside with a prominent white continuous irregular band commencing 

 at the seventh minute anal ocellus of the hindwing, and joining the subapical band on 

 the forewing, this band being placed behind the series of ocelli on both wings, its inner 

 margin sharply defined, its outer much diffused, widest above the third median nervule of the 

 hindwing, very narrow on the forewing. There is a slight indication of this band in the male. 



