50 NYMPHALID^. 



wing ovate, varying in the length of the dorsum and the less or 

 greater prominence of the tornus ; costa and term en more or less 

 arched, the latter generally slightly scalloped ; cell short, under 

 half length of wing ; vein 3 variable, sometimes emitted from 

 a little before or from apex of cell, sometimes 3 and 4 stalked ; 

 origin of vein 7, and consequently length of upper discocellular, 

 variable. Antennae short, slender, not half length of fore wing ; 

 club slight, gradual ; eyes in all the Indian forms hairy ; palpi 

 moderately long, slender, obliquely porrect, fringed anteriorly, 

 tufted in the middle posteriorly ; intermediate and posterior 

 femora scaled, not hairy. Males of all the Indian forms furnished 

 with secondary sexual characters, which can be briefly classified 

 and described as follows : — 



Form 1. Upperside : a glandular fold near dorsum on fore 

 wing, and a patch of specialized scales near costa on hind wing, 

 both covered by pencils of long hairs. Underside : a patch of 

 specialized scales set in a nacreous area near dorsum on fore wing. 



Form 2. Upperside : no sex-mark on fore wing ; sex-mark on 

 hind wing as in Form. 1. Underside : sex-mark as in Form 1. 



Form 3. Upperside : no sex- mark on fore wing ; one sex-mark 

 on hind wing as in Form 1, with a second similar sex-mark on 

 posterior area of wing. Underside : sex-mark as in Form 1. 



Keif to the forms o/Myealesis. 



A. Males with sex-marks in Form 1. 



a. Vein 7 of hind wing closer to 8 than to 6. 

 a'. Preapical white hand on fore wing 

 oblique. 

 a 2 . No ocellus on upperside of fore wing. M. anaxias, p. 52. 

 b' 2 . Two ocelli on upperside of fore wing. 

 a 3 . Preapical white band on fore wing- 

 narrow, not extended to costa or 



termen Race radza, p. 53. 



b 3 . Preapical white band on fore wing- 

 broader, extended to costa and 



termen Var. manii, p. 53. 



b'. Preapical white band on fore wing- 

 absent, or if present nearly vertical, 



not oblique M. adamsoni, p. 54. 



b. Vein 7 of hind wing closer to 6 than to 8. 

 a'. A broad oblique preapical white band 



on fore wing M. anaxioides, p. 54. 



b' . No preapical white band on fore wing. 

 a 2 . Upper discocellular in hind wing not 



swollen M. sanatana, p. 55. 



b 2 . Upper discocellular in hind wing 



swollen M. charaka, p. 55. 



B. Males with sex-marks in Form 2. 



a. Upperside of wings more or less suffused 



with purple M. orseis, p. 56. 



b. Upperside of wings with no trace of 



purple. 

 a'. Veins 3 and 4 in hind wing from a 

 point or shortly stalked. 



