164 NYMPHALID^. 



than the tibia, fringed with hair. Tibia cylindric, scaly and hairy, spiny within towards the 

 apex. Tarsi live-jointed ; the first joint one half longer than the rest combined, spiny within, 

 and furnished, as are the three following joints, with a spine on each side at the apex, 

 covered by a tuft of hair at the base of the following joint ; fourth and fifth joints transverse, the 

 fifth very small. 

 Middle and Posterior Legs with the tibia? quite as long as the femora, spiny externally and 

 laterally, the lateral spines longest, spurs rather long. Tarsi longer than the tibia?, spiny ; 

 the spines of the upper surface slender, the lateral ones the longest, those of the under surface 

 arranged in two regular series ; first joint equal in length to the rest combined ; the 

 three following joints progressively shorter; fifth elongate, ovate, equal in length to the 

 third. 

 Abdomen rather slender, more than two thirds as long as the abdominal margin of the posterior 

 wings. 



Larva and Pupa unknown. 



Messaras resembles Cirrochroa in its scarcely clavate antenna;, whilst in most other characters it agrees very 

 nearly with Atella. Its antenna? will distinguish it from all the allied genera except Cirrochroa, and the different 

 structure of the subcostal nervure and nervules will, independently of other characters, separate it from 

 that genus. 



Its Geographical Range extends over the continent of India, Ceylon, parts of China, and the islands of the Indian 

 archipelago. Of Alcippe I have not been able to obtain specimens for dissection, it may possibly differ slightly from 

 the other species. 



MESSARAS. 



1. Mess. Ervmantiiis. 



P. Ery. Drury, i t. 15. f. 3, 4. (1770). 

 Fab. Ent. Syst. in. i. 139. n. 427. (1793). 

 Cram, t.238. f.F. G. (1781). 

 Arg. Ery. Gotlt. Eric. M. ix. 257- n. 4. (1819). 

 P. Larapetia Cram. t. 148. f. E. (1777)? 

 China, Inilia, Java. B. M. 



2. Mess. Alcippe. 



P. Al. Cram. t. SS[). f. G. II. (1782). 

 Arg. Alciope Godt. Enc. M. ix. 259. n- 8. (1819). 

 Amboyna, N. India. B. M. 



