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by having had the opportunity of personally examining the type specimens of both. 

 Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 73, fig. 2 represents a Malayan 

 male ; fig. 2a the Meetan female taken by Mr. A. 0. Hume, and fig. 2b is a 

 reproduction of Mr. Butler's figure of M. Nautilus — which agrees in every respect 

 with the underside of the Meetan female. 



Genus LOESA. 



Loesa, Moore, Trans. Bnt. See. Lond. 1880, p. 177. 



MycalesU (Loesa), Marshall and de Nict'ville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 132 (188.3). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing somewhat elongated and narrow ; costa much arched, 

 exterior margin oblique and slightly convex ; second subcostal branch emitted at 

 some distance beyond the cell ; costal, median, and submedian swollen at the base. 

 Hindwing bluntly ovate; costa arched at the base; apex, exterior margin, and anal 

 angle convex ; with a tnft of fine hairs arising from lower base of the subcostal, and 

 overlapping a glandular paicli of scales, and another slender tuft of liairs covering a 

 groove on the middle of the submedian vein ; cell short, broad in the middle ; sub- 

 costal concave at its base, first branch emitted close to end of the cell, second 

 concave at its base ; discocellulars long, oblique, straight ; two upper median branches 

 from end of the cell. Antennge with a well-formed terminal club; palpi pointed 

 at tip; eyes hairy. 



TTjpe. — L. Oroatis. 



LOESA SURKHA. 



Wet- Season Beood (Plate 73, fig. 3, $). 

 Mycaleds udtilafa, Distant, Ehopolocera Malayana, p. 418^ pi. 41, fig. 16, (^ (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright rufous-brown, with the costa and outer 

 border of the forewing and the outer border of the hindwing brown. Forewing with 

 a moderate-sized, almost blind, ocellate spot between the middle and lower medians. 

 Hindwing with a subcostal tuft of fine ochraceous hairs overlapping a glandular 

 patch of scales, and another slender tuft of hairs covering a groove on the middle of 

 the submedian vein. Underside dark olivescent-brown, with a slight dusky, slender 

 subbasal line, and a transverse discal prominent narrow violet-grey band ; marginal 

 lines pale ochreous-brown. Forewing with a moderate-sized subapical and a larger 

 median ocellus, each with a white pupil and yellowish ring (in some specimens two 

 intermediate minute ocellules are present), each set encompassed by a pale ochreous- 

 brown outer ring. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, of which the four upper 

 and the two lowest are small, the fifth large, all encompassed by a pale ochreous- 

 brown outer line. Body beneath and legs, and sides of palpi pale cinereous-brown. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



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