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Race radza. 

 Mycalesis radza, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 583, pi. 58, fig. 2 J ; M. $ 



de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 105 ; Moore (Virapa), Lep. Ind. i, 



1890-92, p. 160, pi. 55, figs. 2,2 a, <$ $ . 

 Mycalesis manii, Doherty, J. A. 8. B. 1886, p. 257, $ ; Moore 



(Virapa), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 161. 



Wet-season form. — J $ . Upperside dull vandyke-brown, paler in 

 the 2 ; subterminal and terminal fine lines on both fore and hind 

 wings fulvescent ; cilia brown. Pore wing with an oblique white 

 preapical short band not quite reaching either the costa or the 

 termen. Underside : fore wing : basal area up to the white band, 

 and in a transverse line from lower end of band to dorsum, 

 blackish brown ; terminal margin beyond broadly paler brown ; a 

 white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocellus in interspace 2, and 

 two preapical, smaller similar ocelli, followed by a very sinuous 

 subterminal and a straighter terminal dark brown line. Hind 

 wing: basal two-thirds blackish brown, terminal border broadly 

 paler, bearing normally seven ocelli similar to those on the fore 

 wing, and subterminal and terminal dark brown lines. 



Dry-season form. — $ $ . Upperside as in the wet-season form. 

 Underside differs in the ocelli being more or less obsolescent, and 

 the subterminal and terminal dark lines on both fore and hind 

 wing absent or very faintly indicated ; the terminal margins are 

 broadly rufescent brown, fading inwardly into lilacine, the oblique 

 white bar on the fore wing outwardly diffuse. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen dark brown ; the antennae ochraceous towards 

 apex. Male sex-mark in form 1. 



Exp. S 2 51-60 mm. (2-2-35"). 



Hob. Sikhim, eastwards through the hill-ranges to Assam, 

 Cachar, Burma and Tenasserim. Also in Southern India, the 

 Nilgiris ; Travancore. 



Race radza, Moore. — Only the ocellated form is known. This 

 resembles the wet-season form of typical anaxias, but on the 

 upperside of the fore wing there is a large white-pupilled fulvous- 

 ringed black ocellus in interspace 2, and a smaller similar ocellus 

 just beyond the white preapical bar. On the upperside of the 

 hind wing there is a large similar ocellus in interspace 2. Underside 

 uniform brown, the broad pale terminal area on the fore wing barely 

 indicated, the upper of the two preapical ocelli much the larger. 



Exp. d 1 $ 50-54 mm. (1-95-2-12"). 



Hob. The Andamans. 



Var. manii, Doherty. — Like the race radza, but the preapical, 

 oblique, white band on the fore wing is much broader and longer, 

 nearly touching the costa and termen at each end. Underside: 

 fore and hind wings paler brown, the preapical ocelli on fore 

 wing enclosed in the same fulvescent ring. Hind wing "has 

 a broad dull violet band across the disc unmarked with white, its 

 inner border nearly straight." 



Exp. S 57 mm. (2-28"). 



Hob. The Nicobars. 



