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bv having had the opportunity of personally examining the type specimens of both. 
Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 73, fig. 2 represents a Malayan 
male; fig. 2a the Meetan female taken by Mr. A. 0. Hume, and fig. 2b is a 
reproduction of Mr. Butler’s figure of M. Nautilus— which agrees in every respect 
with the underside of the Meetan female. 
Genus LOESA. 
Loesa, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 177. 
Mycalesis (Loesa), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 132 (1883). 
Imago. —Male. Forewing somewhat elongated and narrow ; costa much arched, 
exterior margin oblique and slightly convex; second subcostal branch emitted at 
some distance beyond the cell; costal, median, and submedian swollen at the base. 
Hindwing bluntly ovate; costa arched at the base; apex, exterior margin, and anal 
angle convex; with a tuft of fine hairs arising from lower base of the subcostal, and 
overlapping a glandular patch of scales , and another slender tuft of hairs covering a 
oroove on the middle of the submedian vein; cell short, broad in the middle; sub- 
costal concave at its base, first branch emitted close to end of the cell, second 
concave at its base ; discocellulars long, oblique, straight; two upper median branches 
from end of the cell. Antennas with a well-formed terminal club; palpi pointed 
at tip; eyes hairy. 
Type. —L. Oroatis. 
LOESA SURKHA. 
Wet-Season Brood (Plate 73, fig. 3, $ ). 
Mycalesis ustulata , Distant, Bhopolocera Malayana, p. 418, pi. 41, fig. 16, £ (1886). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside bright rufous-brown, with the costa and outer 
border of the forewing and the outer border of the hindwing brown. Forewing with 
a moderate-sized, almost blind, ocellate spot between the middle and lower medians. 
Ilindiving with a subcostal tuft of fine ochraceous hairs overlapping a glandular 
patch of scales, and another slender tuft of hairs covering a groove on the middle of 
the submedian vein. Underside dark olivescent-brown, with a slight dusky, slender 
subbasal line, and a transverse discal prominent narrow violet-grey band ; marginal 
lines pale ochreous-brown. Forewing with a moderate-sized subapical and a larger 
median ocellus, each with a white pupil and yellowish ring (in some specimens two 
intermediate minute ocellules are present), each set encompassed by a pale ochreous- 
brown outer ring. Hindwing with seven prominent ocelli, of which the four upper 
and the two lowest are small, the fifth large, all encompassed by a pale ochreous- 
brown outer line. Body beneath and legs, and sides of palpi pale cinereous-brown. 
Expanse, 2 inches. 
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