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Ninlh Group. — Kafsanda, iMoore. " Wings short, broad. Forewiiig xcvy ■m\\c[\ arched 

 from the base, apex and exterior margin slightly convex and even ; cell short and broad. 

 Hindzoing bluntly conical, short ; exterior margin almost even, anal angle very convex ; 

 costal nervure quite short and nearly straight ; first subcostal branch emitted immediately 

 before end of the cell ; disco-cellulars almost erect ; cell very short ; middle median branch 

 emitted before lower end of the cell. Male with a slight subcostal tuft and glandular patch of 

 scales ; median branches dilated and grooved at their base on the upperside. Anlennte short, 

 slender. 7'rt^« slender at tip .^;w hairy." (Hloote, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 168.) 



Only two species of this group are known, from North-East Bengal and the Khasi 

 Hills. The ocelli are very similar to those of the M. mineiis type in the group Calysisme, but 

 the immaculate upper surface and the vinous or rufous tinge of the colouration as well as 

 the arrangement of the subcostal and median nervules of the hindwing serve to distinguish 

 them. 



Hey to tlie Species of Halsanda. 



B. Males with a glandular patch and tuft on hindwing only. 

 b. rt'. The upperside without ocelli on either wing. 



a'-. The ground-colour rufous-fuscous, the ocelli of the underside prominent. 



105. M. {Kabanda) malsarida, N.-E. India. 



h^. The ground-colour dark vinous brown, the ocelli of the underside minute. 



106. M. (Kabanda) khasiaka, Khasi Hills, 



105. Mycalesis malsarida, Butler. 



3/". malsaiida, Butler, Cat Lep. B. M., SatyridiB, p. 134, n. 27, pi. iii, fig. 14 (1868) j Kabanda malsarida, 

 Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 168. 



Habitat : Khasi Hills, Cherra Punji, Sibsagar, Sylhet, Cachar. 



Expanse : i -9 to 2'i inches. 



Description : " Upperside rufous-fuscous, the apical area of the foreiving slightly 

 paler ; a submarginal line and the external margin darker undulate, a marginal line and on 

 tlie kind-cciing inwardly another ochraceous not very distinct line ; the costa of the hindwing 

 ochraceous, at the base sericeous. Underside very little darker, the basal area smeared with 

 fuscous. A median fascia almost entire, oblique, violet-plumbeous, abbreviated in the 

 forewing', another surrounding the ocelli, and a third submarginal, violet ; a submarginal line 

 and the margin itself black, a fulvous marginal line, all undulate. Foreiuing with three small 

 subapical obliquely placed ocelli (the middle one a little larger), and one rather large discal. 

 Hindivitig with seven ocelli, the second, third, sixth and seventh small, the fifth largest, all 

 deep black, with white pupils and fulvous rings." {Butler, 1. c ) 



There is a male and a female from Sibsagar, Assam, in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 

 The FEMALE differs from the male only in the absence of the tuft of hairs on the costa of 

 the upperside of the hindwing. Mr. Wood-ISIason took a single male on Nemotha, Cachar, 

 3,300 feet, in September. In all these specimens the basal area of the hindwing on the under- 

 side is densely striated with darker colour. 



106. Mycalesis khasiana, Moore. 



M. khnsiana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 566 ; Kabanda khasiana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond , 1880, p. 168. 



Habitat : Khasi Hills. 



Expanse: 175 inches. 



Description: "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 strigK : both roings with a trans- 

 verse discal narrow purplish grey band, and a distinct yellow narrow marginal black-bordered 

 band. Forrcviug viK'dx five, and hindzving with seven minute perfect ocelli," (Moor/', 1. c. ) 



This species is apparently to be distinguished from the only other species in this group 

 M. malsarida, by the tone of the upper surface and the size of the ocelli on the underside, 



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