ORSOTRKEtfA. 



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Genus ORSOTKKENA. 



Mycalesis, pt., Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 55. 

 Orsotricena, Wallengren, Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Fork, xv (1858), 

 p. 79 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 168. 



Type, 0. meda, from India. 

 Bange. Indo-Malayan Eegion. 



6 2 • Fore wing broadly trian- 

 gular ; costa arched ; apex rounded ; 

 termen and dorsum nearly straight ; 

 tornus well-marked ; vein 12 swollen 

 only at base, 11 and 10 emitted be- 

 fore apex of cell, lower discocellular 

 bent inwards. Hind wing broadly 

 ovate, costa and termen slightly 

 arched ; apex distinct, dorsum nearly 

 straight ; vein 4 emitted before lower 

 apex of cell. Head, thorax and 

 abdomen slender ; antennae gradually 

 clavate ; palpi erect, third joint 

 rather long cylindrical, bare, basal 

 two with long stiff porrect hairs. 

 c? • Sex-mark a pencil of long hairs 

 covering a fold on fore wing above vein 1, two recumbent pencils 

 of hair on hind wing covering patch of specialized scales on each 

 side of median vein. 



Fig. 19. — Orsotrmna meda. 



Underside. 



a. Head and antenna. 



72. Orsotricena meda, Fair. (Papilio) Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 488; 

 M. $ de N. (Mycalesis) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. Ill ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ind. i, 1890-92, pp. 168 & 169, pi. 58, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, & 2, S 2 • 

 Papilio liesione, Cramer, Tap. Exot. i, 1775, pi. 11, figs. C, D; 

 Wallengren (Orsotricena), Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Fork, xv, 1858, 

 p. 80. 

 Mycalesis rimeka, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mas. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 234 ; 

 31. 4- de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 112, pi. 16, fig. 56 S . 



Race mandata. 

 Mycalesis mandata, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 234 : 



id. (Orsotrioena) Lep. Ceyl. \, 1880, p. 22, pi. 11, figs. 1, 1 a ; 



M. fy de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 113 ; Davidson 8f Aitken, Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, p. 267, pi. A, figs. 1, 1 a, larva & 



pupa. 

 Mycalesis mandosa, Butler, Cat. Satyr. Brit. Mus. 1868, p. 139, 



pi. 3, fig. 9 j M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. \, 1883, p. 113. 



Wet-season form. — $ 2 • Upperside uniform vandyke-brown to 

 blackish brown. Fore wing with a terminal, hind wing with 

 subterminal and terminal slender whitish lines. Underside darker 

 brown ; both wings with distinct subterminal and terminal slender 

 lines as above ; a pure white, straight, transverse, narrow, discal 

 band attenuate at both ends, and beyond it a line of white-centred, 

 ochraceous and silvery-ringed black ocelli, two on the fore, three on 



