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Expanse of wings, $ 1-^ to 1 j^, $ 1-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



The types, which are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, came from the Khasia Hills ; 

 we have a male from the same locality from which our description is taken and which 

 we figure, the female we have not been able to procure, our figure therefore is a copy of 

 de Niceville's figure. 



Genus SUASA. 



Suasa, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 386 (1890). 



Eyes naked. Forewing with the sub-median nervure straight, vein 3 from a short 

 distance before the lower end of cell, middle discocellular straight, slightly outwardly 

 oblique, lower rather longer, straight, upright ; vein 12 ends on the costa a little before 

 the end of cell, sinuous ; 11 from close to its base, slightly bowed upwards towards 12, 

 10 straight, its base about halfway between the bases of 11 and upper discoidal nervule, 

 9 very short, out of 7 near the apex ; wing short, broad. Hindioing with vein 8 arched 

 at base, then straight to apex, 7 from some distance before upper end of cell, upper 

 discocellular slightly concave, outwardly oblique, lower almost upright, nearly straight, 

 vein 3 from before the lower end of cell, sub-median nervure straight, internal nervure 

 very long, rather sinuous ; wing broad, somewhat lengthened, with two tails, a long one 

 at the end of the sub-median nervure, and one about half as long at the end of vein 2 ; 

 a very small anal lobe ; male without secondary sexual characters. 



Type, Myrhm lisides, Hewitson. 



SUASA LISIDES. 



Plate 723, figs. 4, $ , ia,, 9 , 4b, $. 



Myrina lisides, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 33, pi. 14, figs. 28, 29, (J (1863). 

 Chliaria lisides, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 43. 



Suasa lisides, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 386, pi. 28, fig. 220, ^ (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1892, p. 638. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 304. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown. Forewing with a large somewhat 

 dull red, almost square patch a little beyond the middle of the wing divided by the 

 brown veins and ending upwards in a small spot outside the cell end ; the base of the 

 wing irrorated with blue scales. Hindwing with the costal area broadly blackish- 

 brown, its inner edge coming a little below the sub-costal vein to its end ; the rest of 

 the wing blue, a small black spot on the anal lobe, another in the first interspace, 

 a minute spot in the interspace between them, all three with white marks on each side ; 

 tails brown, tipped with white. Underside white. Forewing with a large quadrate 

 brown patch attached to the costa beyond the middle, a sub marginal brown line, the 



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