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LISP ID OPT EE A INDICA . 
have been obtained in Moulmein. Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 825) obtained it 
in Upper Tenasserim at “ Ahsown 2000 feet and at Meetan 3000 feet, in April. ?? 
Captain C. T. Bingham (Butt. Ind. i. 126) “ took a single female in April in the 
Thoungyeen forests.” A male from Tavoy is recorded by Mr. J. H. Elwes (J. A. S. 
Bengal, 1887, 418). 
Distribution outside Indian Area. —In the Malay Peninsula, Mr. Distant 
(Rhop. Malay, p. 417) records its capture at Perak. It also occurs in Sumatra and 
Borneo. 
Genus PAG HAMA. 
Pachama , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1880, p. 165. 
Mycalesis (Pachama) y Marshall and de Mceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 124 (1883). 
Imago. —Wings large and broad, but comparatively shorter than in Samanta. 
j Forewing with the costa much arched in the middle, apex rounded ; exterior margin 
slightly oblique and convex; the costal, median, and sub median vein swollen at the 
base. Hindtving somewhat bluntly conical; anterior margin slightly arched, apex 
slightly angled, exterior margin very oblique and scarcely convex ; first subcostal 
branch emitted at some distance before end of the cell; the cell long, much pointed 
at the end ; discocellulars very oblique and wavy ; radial from a slight angle near 
the subcostal. Cilia prominent. Male on upperside of the hindwing with a slight 
subbasal tuft of fine hairs overlapping a glandular patch of scales. Palpi slender, 
tip long and pointed. Eyes hairy. Antennae with a gradually formed club. 
Type .—P. Mestra. 
PACHAMA MESTHA. 
(Plate 67, fig. 2, 2a, £). 
Mycalesis Mestra , Hewitson, Exotic Butt. iii. p. 79. Myc. pi. 1, fig. 2 (1862). Butler, Catal. Satyr* 
Brit. Mus. p. 137 (1868). 
Pachama Mestra, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1880, p. 165. 
Mycalesis (Pachama) Mestra , Marshall and de Mceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 124 (1883). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown. Cilia 
white. Porewing with a transverse discal narrow ochreous-white band, a small sub- 
apical ocellus and a moderate-sized one between the middle and lower medians, each 
with a white pupil and narrow oclireous outer ring; marginal lines pale and wavy. 
llindwing with the transverse pale discal band of the underside indistinctly visible ; 
a prominent moderate-sized median ocellus, and two marginal ochreous-white lines, 
the outer one most prominent. Underside dark olivescent ochreous-brown, the basal 
area undulated with pale ochreous and brown strigm; the transverse discal band broad, 
prominent, pale ochreous-yellow; exterior marginal lines also ochreous-yellow. Fore- 
wing with two, sometimes three, small prominent apical ocelli, the median ocellus as 
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