202 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



scales. Abdovien and legs beneath and streaks on sides of palpi pale olivesceat- 

 ochreous. AntenncB brown above, annulated with brown and pale ochreous on basal 

 half beneath, the anterior half and tip bright ochreous with black band on the club. 



Expanse, $ 2^ to 2^, ? 2| to 2| inches. 



Habitat. — Cachar, Sikkim. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — " A single male was taken on Nemotha, North Cachar, at an 

 elevation of 3300 feet, in September ; Mr. Wood-Mason noting that the scent-glands 

 and fans, which are much as in M. Malsara, emitted a powerful and delicious odour 

 resembling that of vanilla for some hours after the death of the insect." (Mr. de 

 Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 125.) " Occurs very locally in Sikkim; Mr. Otto Moller has 

 taken it in April and May only in one place at about 3000 feet, below Tukvar." 

 (Blwes, Tr. But. Soc. 1888, 306.) 



Genus SAMANTA. 



Samanta, Moore, Trans. Enfc. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 166. 



Mycalesis {>Samanta), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 129 (1883). 



Imago. — Forewing triangular, arched towards the end, apex convex ; costal, 

 median, and submedian vein swollen at the base. Hindwing conical, exterior margin 

 somewhat scalloped ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the 

 cell, base of the first straight ; discocellulars straight, upper inwardly oblique, 

 lower very slightly outwardly oblique ; cell short. Male on upperside of hindwing 

 with a small tuft of brownish hairs overlapping a glandular imtcli of scales above the 

 base of subcostal branch ; and on the underside of the forewing with a very small 

 glandular patch of dark hroion scales above middle submedian vein. 

 Type. — S. Malsara. 



SAMANTA MALSARA. 



Wet-Season Bkood (Plate 68, fig. 1, la, b, cJ ? ). 

 Mycalesis Malsara, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 231 (1857). Hewitson, Exotic 



Butt. Ill, p. 80, Mijc. pi. i. fig. 5, 6 (1862). Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 138 (1868). 

 Samanta Malsara, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 166. 

 Mycalesis {Samanta) Malsara, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 129 (1883). 



Imago. — Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown ; marginal lines pale 

 ochreous-brown. Cilia cinereous-ochreous. Foreiving with a transverse discal broad 

 pale ochreous-y allow band, a small subapical and a larger median blind ocellus, and a 

 minute ocellus sometimes above and contiguous to the latter. Hindiuing with the 

 transverse discal broad band of the underside slightly apparent, and two small 

 median blind ocelli. Underside paler brown; basal area with numerous darker 

 brown sti'igfe ; with a prominent transverse discal broad pale yellowish band on both 

 wings. Foreiving with five prominent ocelli, of which the upper first and third 



