212 LEriDOPTERA I.XBJCA. 



Distribution. — " Occurs only in the extreme south of the Peninsula. It was 

 taken in the Ashamboo Hills in Travancore, in May, and at Bridge, Trevandrum, 

 in May, by Mr. H. Fergusson " (Butt. Ind. i. ]24). Also taken in Travancore, in 

 April, at 4100 feet elevation. According to Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 

 348) "it is found on the Anaymalai Hills, south of the Palghat Gap." There are 

 two males from the latter locality taken by Mr. Davison, from 3000 to 4000 feet 

 elevation, in Mr. F. D. Godman's collection ; these males are both smaller than those 

 described above, being less than two inches in expanse, and have only three small 

 less prominent ocelli on the hindwing abo^e, and on the underside the apical 

 external border to the transverse discal band is dark reddish-ferruginous instead of 

 yellow. 



The illustrations on our Plate 71, fig. 2, 2a, b, c, represent the male and female 

 from Travancore specimens. 



Genus KABANDA. 



Kahanda, Moore, Trans. Etit. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 168. 



Mycaleds {Kabamla), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 127 (1883). 



Imago. — Wings short, broad. Forewing very much arched from the base, apex 

 and exterior margin slightly convex and even ; base of the costal, median, and sub- 

 median vein swollen ; cell short and broad. Hindwing bluntly conical, short ; 

 exterior margin almost even, anal angle very convex; costal vein quite short and 

 nearly straight ; first subcostal branch emitted immediately before end of the cell ; 

 disco-cellulars almost erect ; cell very short ; middle median branch emitted before 

 lower end of the cell. Male with a slight subcostal tuft and glandular ijatch of 

 scales on upperside of the hindwing, and also with the median branches dilated 

 and grooved at the base, the lower basal area of this wing being hairy ; on the 

 underside of the forewing is a small ordinary glandular patch above the submedian 

 vein. 



Tyj^e. — K. Malsarida. 



KABANDA MALSARIDA. 



Wet-Season Brood (Plate 73, fip;. 1, la, 3 ). 

 Mycalesis Maharida, Builer, Catal. Satyridffi Brit. Mus. p. 134, pi. 3, fig. U (1868). 

 Kabanda Maharida, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 168. 



MycaJesis {Kabanda) Maharida, Marshall and de JSTiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 127 (1883) ; 

 de Niccville, J. A. S. Bengal, 1888, p. 273. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark umber-brown. Forewing slightly paler at the apex ; 

 marginal lines also paler. Cilia cinereous-brown. Hindwing hairy on the lower basal 

 area, partially covering the dilated bases of the median veinlets, and with a subbasal 



