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LEPIDOPTERA 1MDIQA. 
Dry-Season Brood (Plate 73, fig. 3a, $), 
Mycalesis Surkha , Marshall, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal (Jan. 1882), p. 37, pi. 4, fig. 1, $ . 
Mycalesis ( Loesa ) Surkha, Marshall and de Hiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 133 (1883). 
Loesa fervida , Butler, Annals and Mag. Hat. Hist. (Hoy. 1882), p. 372, <$ . 
Imago. —Male. Upperside as in the wet-season form, though of somewhat paler 
rufous-brown, and paler brown margins. Forewing with a minute black dot in the 
upper discoidal, and an ocellus between the lower medians. Hindwing with a 
similar subbasal and a submedian tuft of hairs. Underside. Both wings with the 
slight dusky subbasal line, and the olivescent-grey transverse discal band ; marginal 
lines pale. Forewing with a minute subapical and median white-pupilled black spot. 
Hindwing with seven minute similar white-pupilled dots, the fifth being somewhat 
the largest. Female unknown. 
Expanse, 2| inches. 
Habitat. —Upper Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra. 
Distribution.— Within our area, the dry-season form (Surldia) was taken by 
Capt. C. T. Bingham in January, in the Donat Range, Upper Tenasserim, and also 
in the lower Thoungyeen forests (Butt. Ind. i. 133). Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. S- 
Beng. 1887, 418) also records “ three males from Tavoy and one from Ponsekai.” 
The wet-season form (which I take to be the ustulata of Mr. Distant) was taken by 
Herr Kunstler at Perak, in the Malay Peninsula. A male of this latter form, from 
Sumatra, is also in the British Museum Collection. 
Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate, No. 73, fig. 3 represents the 
male of the wet-season form (copied from Mr. Distant’s Rhop. Malayana, pi. 41), and 
fig. 3a, that of a male of the dry-season form, copied from Mr. Marshall’s figure in 
J. A. S. Bengal. 
Genus MYRTILUS. 
Mycalesis , subgenus Myrtilus, de Hiceville, Journ. Bombay Hat. Hist. Soc. 1891. 
“ Male.— Foreiving , costa strongly and regularly arched; apex rounded ; outer 
margin nearly straight; inner angle acute; inner margin at first slightly marginate, 
then just beyond the middle strongly bowed outwards; costal nervure swollen at 
base, ending on the costa beyond the apex of the discoidal cell; first subcostal 
nervule emitted at about one-fifth before the end of the cell, terminating on the 
costa about opposite to the origin of the third subcostal; second subcostal originating 
a little before the end of the cell, ending on the costa a little before the origin of the 
fourth subcostal; third subcostal arising exactly midway between the apex of 
the cell and the origin of the fourth subcostal, terminating on the costa about 
midway between the origin of the fourth subcostal and the apex of the wing; 
fourth subcostal short, ending at the apex of the wing; terminal portion of sub- 
