ERITES. RAGADIA. 155 



187. Erites falcipennis, W.-M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 237 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 116, pi. 121, figs. 3, 3 a, S 2 • 



S . " Nearest allied to E. angularis, Moore, but differs from 

 that species in the coloration of the upperside being dark 

 fuliginous throughout, in the fore wing being distinctly falcate, 

 the ocellus round and prominently white-pupilled with a very 

 narrow pale iris. Hind iving with the outer fascia and series of 

 blind ocelli hardly denned with ochreous, the outer margin 

 (termen) less waved, especially at the third median nervule, where 

 in E. angularis the wing is produced into a short tail ; the 

 marginal lines obsolete. Underside : all the markings duller and 

 less ochreous. Fore wing with a small round central pure white 

 pupil to the posterior ocellus, not large, silvery and eccentric as 

 in E. angularis ; the iris narrow. On the hind wing the ocelli 

 are small, the two discal fascia wider and of a deeper ochreous, 

 the strise on both wings shorter and more thickly disposed, 

 forming on the hind wing a submarginal purplish band." 



" Exp. 2-1-2-3 mm." {Butt. Ind.) 



Hab. Cachar. 



I quote the original description as I have seen only a single 

 broken specimen, a $ of this form, captured by the late Capt. 

 Watson in the Chin Hills, Upper Burma. 



This specimen agrees fairly well with the description above of 

 the <$ , but on the underside it more closely resembles E. rotundata 

 in the absence of the discal and postdiscal transverse bands on 

 the hind wins: and in the minuteness of the ocelli. 



Genus RAGADIA. 



Eagadia, Westw. Gen. Di. Lep. ii, 1851, p. 376; M. $ de JV. Butt. 

 Ind. i, 1883, p. 234 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 110. 



Type, B. crista, Hiibner, from the Malay Peninsula. 



Mange, Malayan Subregion, extending into China ; Burma 

 Assam and Eastern Himalayas. 



tf 2 • Fore wing : costa widely arched, termen straight, in the 

 2 slightly convex, dorsum straight, apex and tornus distinct but 

 more or less rounded ; discoidal cell long, over half length of 

 wing; upper and middle discocellulars inclined very obliquely 

 inwards, lower discocellular strongly bent inwards, concave ; vein 5 

 closer to 6 than to 4 at base, 10 emitted well beyond apex of cell, 

 11 from just before apex, 12 greatly inflated at base, median vein 

 normal. Hind wing pear-shaped; termen strongly arched, entire ; 

 discoidal cell very short, much less than half length of wing, very 

 narrow, acute at apex ; veins 3 and 4, and 6 and 7 stalked far 

 beyond apex of cell. Antennae short, about half length of fore 

 wing, club gradually formed, long and slender ; palpi moderately 

 long, third joint slender ; eyes very slightly hairy ; intermediate 

 femora and tibiae subequal, not hairy. The male secondary sex- 



