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b 7 . Posterior femora with a 

 fringe of long hair 



posteriorly (Eneis, p. 128. 



b 3 . Veins 6 and 7 of hind wing 



from a point Auloceba, p. 125. 



b 2 . Veins 10 and 11 of fore wing not 

 free ; veins 8 to 11 branching 



from 7 Ypthima, p. 130. 



b'. Hind wing with a prediscoidal cell . . Elymnias, p. 169. 

 b. Vein 12 of fore wing not swollen at base. 

 a'. No anastomosis of veins along the 

 costal margin of fore wing. 



a 2 . Hind wing rounded Anadebis, p. 165. 



b 2 . Hind wing not rounded ; dentate 

 or caudate at apex of vein 4. 

 a 3 . Veins 3 and 4 of hind wing from 



apex of cell Neobina, p. 167. 



b 3 . Vein 3 emitted well before, 4 

 from apex of cell of hind wing. 

 « 4 . Vein 1 on fore wing ending on 



terminal margin Melanitis, p. 157. 



6 4 . Vein 1 on fore wing ending on 



dorsal margin Cyllogenes, p. 162. 



b'. Vein 11 of fore wins - anastomosing 



with 12, 10 with 11, 9 with 10 .... Pabantirrhcea, p. 164. 



Genus MYCALESIS*. 



Mycalesis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 55; M.fy deN. Butt. 



Ind. i, 1883, p. 102. 

 Culapa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 825. 



Calysisme & Nisanga, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, pp. 20 & 23. 

 Virapa, Gareris, Sadarga, Suralaya, Pacbama, Samanta, Telinga, 



Kabauda, & Loesa, Moore, Trans. JEmt. Soe. 1880, pp. 155, 156, 



157, 159, 165, 166, 167, 168, 177. 

 Samundra, Moore, Lep. Ind. i, 1892, p. 162. 

 Myrtilus, de N. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vi, 1891, p. 341. 



Type, M. evadne, Cramer, from Africa. 



Range. Africa ; the whole of the Indo-Malayan Eegion to Aus- 

 tralia. Pound also in China and Japan. 



6 2 • Fore wing : costa more or less arched, apex generally 

 rounded, somewhat acute or subacute, rarely slightly produced ; 

 termen convex, straight or even slightly concave ; tornus generally 

 well marked ; dorsum straight in males, sometimes slightly convex 

 towards base ; cell short, about half length of wing; discocellulars 

 somewhat variable, upper short, lower in all the Indian forms 

 strongly concave ; veins 10 and 11 from before apex of cell, 

 vein 1, median vein, and vein 12 greatly dilated at base. Hind 



* I have retained the generic name Mycalesis for the Indian forms partly 

 because it is well known and its use for these forms has the sanction of long- 

 established custom, but chiefly because the differences between the typical 

 African and the Indian forms have after all only subgeneric value. In fact, for 

 the purely Indian forms, M. mineus, Linn., might very well be regarded as 

 the type. 



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