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Ind. i. 132) observes that " in Travancore this species was not common in April, 

 and only to be found in heavy forest at about 800 feet elevation, and later on in May 

 that it was fairly common in the hills at the end of the month." Specimens are in 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from the Kadur District, Mysore. 



Genus SURALAYA. 



Suralaya, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 159 ; Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. 



i. p. 110 (1883). 

 Mycalesis (Sect. A, part). Distant, Khop. Malayana, p. 49 (1882). 



Imago. — Forewing comparatively long and narrow ; costa shghtly arched ; apex 

 rounded ; exterior margin oblique, almost straight and even ; base of costal, median 

 and submedian vein swollen. Hindwing small, bluntly oval ; exterior margin convex 

 waved ; first subcostal branch slightly swollen at its base, second very concave at its 

 base; cell narrow ; discocellular very oblique, Male. Underside of /orei^'m^/ with a 

 large elongated patch of dark brown scales on middle of the submedian vein, the 

 surrounding nacreous area extending from the base to beyond the discal band. 

 Upperside of hindwing with a subbasal long slender tuft of blach hairs overlapping a 

 glandular imtch of brown scales situated above the first submedian branch, and on 

 the median area is a large rounded glandular patch of blackish lustreless scales. 

 Eyes almost naked. Antennal club slender. 



Tyioe. — S. Orseis. 



SURALAYA ORSEIS (Plate 73, fig. 2, 2a, b, (? ? ). 

 Mycalesis Orseis, Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 89, 3:Iyc. pi. 6, figs. 36, 37, $ (1864) ; Butler, Catal. 



Satyr. B. M., p. 136 (1868); Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 49, pi. 5, fig. 4,c?(1882); Marshall 



and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 110 (1883). 

 Suralaya Orseis, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 159. 

 Mycalesis Nautilus, Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 402, pi. 9, fig. 7, ? ; id. Catal. Satyr. 



B. M. p. 136 (1868); Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 417, pi. 40, fig. 4, (?(1886) ; Marshall and 



de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 120 (1883). 

 Calysisme Nautilus, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 162. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale purpurescent-brown, suffused more or less with 

 violaceous-blue, with the straight transverse pale discal fascia of the underside very 

 slightly visible from above ; marginal lines darker brown ; cilia cinereous-brown. 

 Foretving with tlie upper and lower submarginal ocelli of the underside slightly 

 stowing as dusky-black pale-ringed spots, in some specimens the three intervening 

 ocelli are also slightly visible. Hindiving pale cinerescent-brown along the costal 

 border, the anterior ocelli of the underside slightly visible from above ; with a 

 subbasal long slender tiift of black hairs overlapping a glandular patch of brown scales 

 situated above the first submedian branch, and on the median area is a large rounded 

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