166 Mr. F. Moore on the Asiatic Lepidojytcra 



N. g. Indalasa. 



Male. — Fore wing somewhat narrow ; costa arched at 

 base, apex convex ; exterior margin oblique, straight ; 

 hind wing narrow, conical ; anterior margin arched at 

 base, apex slightly produced; exterior margin oblique, 

 slightly convex ; cell long, fusiform ; a fuft of line hair 

 at "base of subcostal; first subcostal branch half way 

 between the costal and second ; disco-cellulars very 

 oblique; two upper median branches from end of the 

 cell. Antennae with a moderately formed club. Palpi 

 pointed and hairy to tip. Eyes slightly hairy. 



Indalasa Moorei. 

 Mycalesis Moorei, Felder, Eeise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 

 502, pi. 67, fig. 9 (1867). 

 Hah. — Java. 



N. g. Samanta. ' 



Fore wing arched towards the apex, angle convex. 

 Hind wing 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. 



Type. S. Malsara. 



Samanta Malsara. 



Mycalesis Malsara, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 

 p. 231 (1857) ; Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 80 ; 

 Myc. pi. 1. figs. 5, 6. 



Hah. — N. E. India (Darjiling ; Cherra). 



Samanta rudis, n. sp. 



Male. — Upper side similar to S. Malsara, the pale 

 band on the fore wing being narrower. Under side 

 ochreous-brown, with darker brown strigae, somewhat 

 greyish brown on external borders ; both wings with an 

 ochreous-yellow transverse discal band, the inner margin 

 of which is well defined, the outer suffused ; a sub- 

 marginal series of minute indistinct white-speckled spots, 



