SATYRINM 159 



concave to end of the cell; upper discocellular outwardly convex, lower straight and 

 oblique, radial from their middle ; two upper median branches emitted at a short 

 distauce beyond end of the cell. Male above with a tuft of fine long hairs exserted 

 from below the base of the subcostal vein and overlapping a small glandular patch 

 of scales above the first branch. Eyes very slightly hairy. Antennce with a well- 

 formed slender club. Palpi uniformly pilose beneath the tip. 

 Type. — V. Anaxias. 



VIRAPA ANAXIAS. 



MycaJeds Anaxias, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. p. 86. Myc. pi. 4, fig. 25, 26 (1862), ^. Butler 

 Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 141 (1868). Distant, Khop. Malay, p. 416, pi. 36, fig. 7, ^ (1886). ' 



Virapa A7iaxias, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 166. 



Mycalesis (Virapa) Anaxias, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 106, pi. xvi. 

 fig. 54, S (1883). 



Wet-Season Brood (Plato 55, fig. 1, l3.,h, ^ ^). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, with a paler sub- 

 marginal and marginal lunular line. Forewing with a subapical oblique narrow 

 lilacine- white band, and a conspicuous tuft of black hairs overlapping an irridescent 

 glandular patch of raised scales situated on each side of the middle of the submedian 

 vein. Hindwing with a tuft of yellowish radiating hairs exserted from below the 

 base of the subcostal vein and overlapping a small glandular patch of nacreous white 

 scales situated above the first branch. Underside. Forewing darker brown from 

 the base to the subapical oblique lilacine-white band and outwardly beyond the 

 middle, thus forming an angular discal transverse edge to the dark basal area, the 

 marginal border being much paler brown. Forewing with two small apical pro- 

 minent black ocelli superposed above the oblique white band, and a larger ocellus 

 between the middle and lower median veins, each ocellus with a pure white pupil 

 and ochreo US-yellow outer ring ; beyond these are two submarginal lunular yellowish 

 ochreous lines and an outer marginal straighter dark line ; the inner submarginal 

 line and the lower outer-edge of the dark basal area usually being lilacine-grey. 

 Hindwing with the basal area dai-ker brown, the broad marginal border paler, edged 

 with lilacine-grey ; marginal lunular lines either lilacine-grey or ochreous ; traversing 

 the border are seven small similar prominent black ocelli, of which the four upper and 

 the two lower are the smallest, the fifth always the largest, the fourth and seventh 

 sometimes reduced to a pale speck. Cilia lilacine-grey. 



Female. Somewhat larger and paler; the oblique subapical white band of the 

 forewing broader on both the upper and underside ; the lower ocellus of the under- 



