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Third Group. — Sadarga : " Forewing shorter, with more rounded and less oblique 

 exterior margin than in Virapa, venation similar, but the veins more curved. Male with a 

 slight tuft (but no perceptible glandular patch of raised scales) on submedian nei-vure before the 

 swollen base. Hindwing very convex externally, first subcostal in male not curved at the base ; 

 second concave at base and much swollen beneath between first and end of the cell, and with 

 a slight tuft of hairs above ; two upper median branches emitted from angle before end of the 

 cell, ^^w hairy." {Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 157). 



Only four species of this group are known, of which two arc found in India ; both of them 

 inhabit Sylhet in N.-E. Bengal. 



XZ07 to the Indian Species of Sadarg'a. 



A. a. 3'. Forewing with a very large lower and large upper ocellus on the upperside, 

 b". With the ocelli of the underside of both wings small. 



90. M. (Sadarga) charaka, Sylhet. 



i''. With the ocelli of the underside of both wings large. 



91. M. (Sadarga) oculata, Sylhet. 



90. Mycalesis charaka, Moore. 



M. charaka, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 566 ; Sadarga charaka, id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1880, p. 158. 



Habitat: Sylhet, N.-E. Bengal. 



Expanse : 1-75 inches. 



Description: " Male and Female : Upperside yellowish olive-brown, outer margins 

 paler, Fornuing with two very prominent bright-coloured ocelli, the upper one the smaller; 

 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 subbasal short zig-gag brown lines on forewing, and one on 

 hindwing. Both wings with a narrow black submarginal line, and a brown fascia or cloud 

 passing through the ocelli. Forerumg 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. Hindzving 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." 



" This species is very similar in appearance to M. ffofama [from China], but may be 

 distinguished by the very considerable difTerence in the size of the ocelli beneath." 



** JVo/e. — The specimens of this species in the British Museum collection stand as the 

 representatives of Iliibner's A/, otrea (Zutrage, figs. 79, 80), which name Professor Westwood 

 altered in the * Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera' (p. 394) to ostrea, believing Hiibner's figure 

 to represent a species distinct from Cramer's otrea ; but I find, after a careful examination of 

 a lengthened series of specimens in the British Museum and others in my own collection, that 

 Hiibner's figure well represents a male oi Cramer's species (otrea), whose figures (pi. cccxiv, 

 figs. A, B) are those of a female. The name ostrea, therefore, cannot be retained, as it was 

 applied to Hiibner's figure, and not to the specimens which Professor Westwood erroneously 

 determined as representing it." {Aloore, 1. c.) 



91- Mycalesis oculata, Moore. 



Sadarga oculata, Moore, Trans, Ent. Soc. Lend., iSSo, p. 158. 



Habitat : Sylhet. 

 Expanse: J, i-8; ?, 2T inches. 



Description: " Male and Female. Similar on the upperside to S. charaka, the 

 ocelli of the same large size, but the loWer somewhat laterally bulged. On the underside 



