166 LEPIDOFTEEA INDICA. 



Genus SADARGA. 



Sadarga, Moore, Trans. Ent. See. Lond. 1880, p. 157. 



Mi/calesis {Sadarga), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 109 (1883). 



Imago. — Forewing shorter, witli more rounded and less oblique exterior margin 

 than in Virapa ; venation similar, but the veins more curved. Male above with a 

 slight appressed tuft of hairs (but no perceptible glandular patch of raised scales) 

 overlapping the middle of the submedian vein near the swollen base. Hindiving very 

 convex externally ; first subcostal in male not curved at the base ; second subcostal 

 concave at the base and much swollen on the underside between the first and end of 

 the cell, and with a slight glandular tuft of radiating hairs on the upperside below 

 the first subcostal ; upper and middle median branches emitted from angle before 

 end of the cell. Eijes hairy. 



r^/jje. — S. Gotama.* 



SADAEGA CHAEAKA. 



Wet-Season Brood (Plate 57, figs. 1, la, b, c,,^' ? ). 

 Sadarga oculafa, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 158. 

 Mycalesis (Sadarga) oculata, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 109 (1883). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivaceous-ochreous-brown; transverse 

 discal line indistinct ; marginal lunular line dark, with pale borders. Forewing with 

 a moderately-sized prominent subapical ocellus, and a very large median ocellus, the 

 latter somewhat bulged anteriorly and posteriorly, each with white pupil and ochreous- 

 yellow ring. Male with a shght appressed tuft of brown hairs overlapping a small 

 glandular patch of scales on the middle of the submedian vein. Hindiving with the 

 median ocellus of the underside slightly visible, a slight glandular tuft of ochreous 

 hairs from below base of first subcostal overlapping the swollen base of the second 

 subcostal. Underside pale purplish-ochreous, palest externally ; subbasal line 

 slender ; the transverse discal line distinct and with a broad well-defined pale yellow 

 exterior border ; a submarginal slender blackish sinuous line, and an even marginal 

 line. Foreiuing with three, conjoined, subapical, prominent ocelli, of which the upper 

 and lower are minute ; a large lower ocellus also between the medians. Male with 

 a small glandular patch of dark-brown scales on middle of the submedian vein. 

 Hindiuing with seven prominent ocelli, the upper three of which are disposed in a 

 very oblique outward series, and decrease in size to the fourth, which is very minute, 

 the fifth largest, the lower two small. 



Expanse, c? In)) ^ ^j^q inches. 



* A Chinese species. 



