210 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



end of the cell. Male with a small subcostal hift overlapping a glandular patch of 

 scales on the upperside of hindwing, and on the underside of forewing is a nacreous 

 patch of modified scales covering the basal area of the posterior margin, but is not 

 accompanied by the ordinary glandular patch of dark scales. Palpi stout at the tip. 

 Eyes hairy. Antennce with the club well formed. 

 Tyjpe, T. Adolphei. 



TELINGA ADOLPHEI (Plate 71, fig. 1, la, b, c, (J ? ). 

 Satyrus Adolphei, Guerin, in Delessert's Souv. Voy. I'lnde, pt. ii. p. 76 (1843). 

 Mycalesis Adolphei, Westwood and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. p. 394 (1851) ; Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brifc. 



Mus. p. 139 (1868). 

 Telinga Adolphei, Moore, Trans. Bnt. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 168. 



Mycalesis {Telinga) Adolphei, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 123 (1883). 

 Mycalesis Onatas, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 90, Myc. pi. 6, fig. 40 (1864) $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark rufescent-brown, brightest and darkest 

 anteriorly ; the hindwings palest. Cilia cinereous-brown. Forewing with a distinct 

 black-bordered white subapical dot, and a moderately -lar^e prominent black ocellus 

 with rufous outer ring between the lower medians. Hindwing with either two, 

 three, and sometimes four small medial discal rufous-ringed black ocelli. Underside 

 paler, the outer borders more ochraceous, numerously undulated with darker brown 

 strigge, and hindwing more or less thickly irrorated with ochreous scales. Both 

 wings with a dark brown transverse discal line. Forewing with a small subapical 

 more or less complete ocellus and a somewhat larger lower median ocellus ; some- 

 times there is a distinct white dot below the subapical ocellus. Hindwing with six 

 more or less developed small prominent ocelli, of which the four upper and the lowest 

 are minute. Male with a subbasal tuft of dark brown hairs overlapping a small 

 glandular patch of blade scales on the upperside of hindwing, aud on the underside 

 of the forewing with a large nacreous area at base of the submedian, but with no 

 visible accompanying ordinary glandular patch of dark scales. Female larger than 

 male. Upperside of the same colour. Foreicing with the median ocellus larger. 

 Hindwing with three medial discal small ocelli, as in male. Underside much paler 

 than in male, being pale ochreous-brown, the basal area and exterior borders 

 undulated with brown strigge, the transverse discal brown line outwardly diifused 

 with niacin e-grey. Foreioing with a subapical white spot, or small imperfect ocellus, 

 and a similar-sized small lower median well-developed ocellus. Hindwing with six 

 small ocelli of the same size as on underside of the male. Bodg above dark brown, 

 paler beneath ; streaks on sides of palpi, and the legs cinereous-ochreous. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2|-, ? 2f to 2f inches. 



Habit.vt. — South India. 



