228 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Eyes naked, antennae long, more than half the length of the forewing, stout, 

 club spatulate and abrupt, palpi sub-porrect, third joint a little longer than the second, 

 longer in the female. Foreiving somewhat triangular ; costa more arched in the female 

 ihan in the male, apex somewhat angulate in the male, rounded in the female ; outer 

 margin convex, lower angle a little rounded, hinder margin slightly sinuous ; cell half 

 the length of the wing ; vein 7 terminates on costa before the apex, 8 absent, 9 from 

 the middle of 7; 10 and 11 free, 12 short, ending on costa before end of cell. Hind- 

 wing with vein la very short, 3 and 4 approximate from lower end of cell ; sometimes 

 with a slender tail, sometimes without, this diflference occurring often in otherwise 

 identical forms captured at the same time and place. 



Type, M. thwaitesi, Moore. 



- ^ MEGISBA MALAYA. 



Plate 627, figs. 1, (J, la, ?, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, $ , \d, J (Dry-season Brood), le (larva 

 and pupa). 



Lycsena malaya, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 70 (1828). 



Lampides malaya, de NiceviUe, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 58. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, 

 id. p. 249. 



Pathalia malaya, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 22. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 134. Wood- 

 Mason and de Nice villa, id. p. 108. 



Megisba malaya, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 375, pi. 11, fig. I, $. de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 61, pi. 26, fig. 165, S (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 44. 

 Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 621. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 292. Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 373. Mackinnon and de NiceviUe, id. 

 1898, p. 379. Bingham, Pauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 313 (1907). 



Megisha thwaitesi, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 71, pi. 34, fig. 3, 3a (imago), 3b (larva and pupa) (1881). 

 de NiceviUe, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 46. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 457, pi. 44, 

 fig. 4 (1886). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. 



Megisba sihkima, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 21. 



Patlialia albidisca, Moore, I.e. 



Megisba gunga, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 133, pi. 19, fig. 7. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brownish-black ; some specimens without 

 markings, but generally there is a medial small pale patch on the forewing ; on the 

 hiiidwing there is a very slender short tail at the end of vein 1, sometimes absent. 

 Underside dull white. Forewing with basal, costal and outer marginal spaces suflfused 

 slightly with brown, some brown spots on the costa, a brown line closing the cell, a 

 post-discal series of brown lunules, a sub-marginal sinuous brown line and a marginal 

 line, including a series of brown spots. Hindiving with two rather large black spots 

 near the base and a small one below them, another near the apex of the wing, a line 



