128 NYMPHALID^. SATYRIN^. MYCALESIS. 



An allied species, M. janardana, has been separated as the type of a distinct genus under 

 the name of Martamia* ; the type species occurs in Malacca, and also in Java and Sumatra, 

 and two other species belonging to the same group have been described, one from North 

 China, M, sangaka, the other from Macassar, Gilolo, &c., M. megamede. This group is 

 evidently closely allied to Saviaitta from the position of the subcostal nervules in the 

 hmdwiiig, both branches arising from the end of the cell, and it is intermediate betv^een 

 that group and Rabanda. Probably M. nautilus (p. i2o) belongs to this group. 



Tenth Group. — Samanta, Moore. " /7;r«c»/;/^ arched towards the apex, angle convex. 

 Hindwing conical ; exterior margin waved ; first and second subcostal branches emitted 

 together from end of the cell, base of the first straight, disco-cellulars straight and very 

 slightly oblique ; cell short. Male with a small tuft covering a glandular patch of scales above 

 base of subcostal branch. Eyes hairy." (Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iSSo, p. i66.) 



All the species of this group are found in Northern India only, most of them in the 

 hills of N.-E, India extending to Burma. 



Key to tlie Species of Samanta. 



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



c, a', (i^. With the ocelli of the underside distinct and prominent. 

 a^. With only two ocelli on the underside of forewing. 



107. M. (Samanta) heri, Bhutan. 



b^. With five ocelli on the underside of forewing. 



rt*. With the ocelli of the underside on a lilac ground in the middle 

 of a broad, dark brown band ; the ocelli blind on the upperside, 

 more or less so on the underside. 



108. M. (Samanta) malsara. Mussoorie, Sikkim, Khasi Hills, Assam. 



b*. With the ocelli of the underside on a dark brown band with lilac- 

 grey beyond ; the ocelli distinctly pupilled above and below. 



109. M, (Smnauta) nicotia, Sikkim. 



b* With the ocelli of the underside minute, indistinct or obsolete. 

 a'. With the ocelli of the upperside blind. 



a*. The discal band of the underside broad. 

 no. M. (Sa7nanta).'RVVis, Orissa, Manipur, Naga Hills, Tenasserim. 



b^. The discal band of the underside narrow. 

 III. M. (Samanta) lbpcha, Himalayas, Burma. 

 i-'. With the ocelli of the upperside pupilled. 

 , 112. M. ^5'r(;«rt7/^aj LANGi, Mussoorie, Sikkim, Naga and Khasi Hills. 



107. Mycalesis heri, Moore. 



M. heri, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I C, vol. i, p. 233, n. 496 (1857) ; Samanta heri, Moore, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 167. 



Habitat : Bhutan. 



Expanse : 2*37 inches. 



Description: — "Male: Upperside brown. Forewing with large upper and larger 

 lower ocellus. Hindwing with two larger and third smaller ocelli. Underside paler, 

 the base covered with .short brown undulated strise ; transverse line, inner and outer border 

 to the ocelli pale ochreous. Forewing with the two ocelli as above. Hindwittg v/ith six 

 ocelli ; marginal lines brown and pale ochreous." (Moore, 1. c.) 



* Martandn, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p 169. "Wings short. i^(7'«('/'/?- somewhat triangular, 

 apex slightly pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique, nearly straight and even. Hiii,iwiiig-h\uut\y oval; 

 costa very broadly convex at the base ; e.vterior margin convex, slightly waved ; cell long, very pointed at 

 lower end ; first and second subcostal branches from end of the cell ; disco-cellulars very oblique ; malk with 

 a double subcostal tuft covering the glandular patch of scales. /}«/?««« short, club stout, /'a^/ slender at 

 tip. Eyes hairy." (Moore, 1. c.) 



Mycalciis janardana, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. L C, vol. i, p. 234, n. 502 (1857) ; idem, 

 id.. Distant, Rhop. Malay , p. 54, pi. v, fig. 2 (1882) ; Martanda janardana, Moore, Irans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1880, p. 169. Haditat : Malacca, Sumatra, Java. Expanse : Male, 1-5 ; female, 1-7 inches. Description: 

 "Male: Uppersidk dusky brown, palest on the hindwing, which has two rather indistinct black spots. 

 Underside brown, the basal parts being covered with small narrow stria; ; two transverse lines, the outer 

 margined exteriorly with white; foreiving with six, and A/wrfw"",?- with seven small ocelli. Female paler on 

 the ///^A-r and undersides, the latter nearly covered with small dark stris ; the transverse lines paler; the 

 ocelli somewhat larger than in the male." (Moore, 1. c. in Cat. Lep E. 1. C) 



