NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES. 157 



by a broad even-edged luteous band, which greatly widens out pos- 

 teriorly. Cilia of the forewing dark brown ; of the hindwing anteriorly 

 dark brown, posteriorly luteous. Anienw.c dark brown, but the base 

 of" the club above whitish. Palpi, head, thorax and abdomen dark 

 brown, the apex of the latter luteous. 



Dr. A. G. Butler has kindly examined the drawing liere reproduced, 

 and considers it to represent the hitherto tmdescribed male of his Hesperia 

 onara, the type of which is not in the British Museum, but is in 

 Dr. Butler's opinion probably a female. "When describing it he did not 

 state the sex of his type example. He gives the habitat as " East Indies?" 

 The late Herr Plotz recorded both sexes from " India." The male 

 differs from the figtire of the female in having five instead of three 

 translucent spots on the forewing, and the basal patch of dark brown 

 seta3 on the upperside of the hindwing is more prominent. From the 

 same sex of " Proteides " excellens., Standing er,* from Palawan in the 

 Philippines, N.-E. Sumatra, and Pulo Latit, it differs in the luteous 

 area on the hindwing on both surfaces being much larger, and the spots 

 on the forewing being smaller. 



Described from a single example kindly sent to me by Herr H. 

 Fruhstorfer, who captured it on Mount Gede in Western Java at an 

 elevation of 4,000 feet in August, 1892. 



23. Zea mythecoides, n. sp., pi. AA, figs. 33, ^ ; 34, 9 . 



Habitat : Bantimoeroeng, South Celebes. 



Expanse : $, 2'0 to 2-1 ; 9, 2*2 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wimjs shining hair-brown. 

 Cilia cinereous. Forewing with the following translucent white spots : — 

 a narrow transverse one towards the end of the discoidal cell ; two or 

 three round subapical dots placed outwardly obliquely ; a narrow out- 

 wardly-oblique spot towards the base of the second median interspace ; 

 a similar one across the middle of the first median interspace. 

 Hindiuing immaculate. Underside, both icings dull hair-brown. Fore- 

 loing with the translucent spots as on the upperside ; an inwardly- 

 oblique dead white streak across the middle of the submedian inter- 

 space, divided into two portions by the submedian fold. Hindwing 



• PJ'o^eJcZes eaxe/Ze/io.-, fcstautlinger, Irib, vol. ii, p. 141, pi. ii, tig. G, jnri/c (1889); Lotongus 

 <!a;c-eZ/c»(s, de Niceville and ilartin, Jouru. A. S. B , vol. Isiv, pt. 2, p. 542, n. G92 (1896) ; 

 id., Elwes and Edwards, Trans, Zool. Soc. Lond., vol. xiv, p. 233 (1897). 



