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scales . Abdomen and legs beneath and streaks on sides of palpi pale olivescent- 
oohreous. Antennce brown above, annulated with brown and pale ockreous on basal 
half beneath, the anterior half and tip bright ochreous with black band on the club. 
Expanse, £ 2J to 2^, ? 2§ to 2f inches. 
Habitat. —Cachar, Sikkim. 
Distribution.— cc A single inale was taken on jfemotha, North Cachar, at an 
elevation of 3300 feet, in September; Mr. Wood-Mason noting that the scent-glands 
and fans, which are much as in M. Malsara , emitted a powerful and delicious odour 
resembling that of vanilla for some hours after the death of the insect. 5 ' (Mr. de 
Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 125.) “ Occurs very locally in Sikkim; Mr. Otto Moller has 
taken it in April and May only in one place at about 3000 feet, below Tukvar. 55 
(Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 306.) 
Genus SAMANTA. 
Samanta , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 166. 
Mycalesis (Samanta), Marshall and de JNiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i, p. 129 (1883), 
Imago. —Forewing triangular, arched towards the end, apex convex; costal, 
median, and submedian vein swollen at the base. Hindwing conical, exterior margin 
somewhat scalloped ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the 
cell, base of the first straight ; discocellulars straight, upper inwardly oblique, 
lower very slightly outwardly oblique ; cell short. Male on upperside of hindwing 
with a small tuft of brownish hairs overlapping a glandular patch of scales above the 
base of subcostal branch; and on the underside of the forewing with a very small 
glandular patch of darlc brown scales above middle submedian vein. 
Type .—S. Malsara. 
SAMANTA MALSARA. 
Wet-Season Beood (Plate 68, fig. 1 , la, b, $ ?), 
Mycalesis Malsara , Moore, Catat Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 231 (1857). Hewitson, Exotic 
Butt. Ill, p. 80, Myc. pL i. fig. 5, 6 (1862). Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 138 (1868). 
Samanta Malsara , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 166, 
Mycalesis ( Samanta) Malsara , Marshall and de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. b p. 129 (1883). 
Imago.— Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown; marginal lines pale 
ochreous-brown. Cilia cinereous-ochreous. Forewing with a transverse discal broad 
pale ochreous-yellow band, a small subapical and a larger median blind ocellus, and a 
minute ocellus sometimes above and contiguous to the latter. Hindiving with the 
transverse discal broad band of the underside slightly apparent, and two small 
median blind ocelli. Underside paler brown; basal area with numerous darker 
brown strigfe; with a prominent transverse discal broad pale yellowish band on both 
wings. Forewing with five prominent ocelli, of which the upper first and third 
