MIRESA. 



MIRESA, Walk. 



Miresa bracteata. (Plate CII. fig. 2.) 

 Miresa bracteata, Butler, Ann. <$• Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 04. n. 5 (1880). 



Primaries -with the costal area olive-brown, washed with lilaciuc; intcrno-basal area 

 fulvous internally, gradually shading into ferruginous, and lastly into olivaceous towards the 

 median vein; the veins across it indicated by lilacine-grey scales ; a zigzag metallic silver 

 stripe from the subcostal vein near the apex to just below the middle of inner margin, the 

 inner angle of the zigzag stripe confluent with a large cuneiform patch of silver just below 

 the end of the cell; disk beyond the silver stripe olive-green, crossed by pale sericeous veins ; 

 external border dark red-brown, densely sprinkled with metallic plumbaginous scales; fringe 

 red-brown : secondaries of the male stramineous, slightly washed with dull rose-colour in 

 front ; of the female rosy brownish, with whitish veins and external border, stramineous 

 abdominal border, and ochraceous fringe: thorax bright chrome-yellow; antennae and 

 abdomen orange-yellow or bright ochreous. Under surface red-brown, with the internal 

 areas of the wings and tail (particularly the caudal tuft of the male) ochraceous; legs 

 chrome-yellow. Expanse of wings, <$ 36 millim., $ 40 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



Miresa decedens. (Plate CII. fig. 3.) 

 Miresa decedens, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1125. n. 4 (ISou). 



Reddish clay-coloured : the primaries with the basieostal area darker, almost chocolate- 

 coloured, bounded by a slightly sinuous diffused stripe, which is followed by a few metallic 

 silvery scales; outer margin and fringe also dotted with metallic scales: secondaries 

 unicolorous, rather paler than the primaries: body dull sulphur-yellow, the antenna; dull 

 flesh-coloured; the head, collar, and abdomen washed with reddish testaceous; the tegulse 

 tipped with orange: under surface of wings becoming pale yellowish towards the outer 

 margins. Body below whitish; tibise dull rust-red in front, otherwise testaceous or white. 

 Expanse of wings 34 millim. 



North India [James) . 



The thorax is not striped, as described by Walker; the tegula of the left side has been 

 displaced, so that its orange tip is in the centre of the thorax; the right-hand tegula is. 

 however, in position, and shows its tip at the side: two of the "three slight luteous stripes, 

 partly luteous in front," are thus accounted for; the left-hand stripe was evidently supposed 

 to be rubbed off. 



