57 



The figure given by Distant is but poorly accurate. Mabille cites also 

 Maculatus Distant (Parthenoi'e Weymer), but Snellen is not sufficiently 

 certain in regarding this as the same species as Calathus Hew. 



\V. J. In the neighbourhood (+ 200) of the Tjiletou or Sandbay and 

 of Pelabouan Ratou or Wynkoopsbay on the south coast. 

 C. J.? 

 E. J. Province of Pasourouan (+ 500) (Fhuhst). 



Genus HIDARI de Nic. 



I. Irava Moore (PI. X, fig. 85 a, b, c). 



HuBNER, Ztttr. 4, s. 20, //(,'. 875, 876 (1832) . . . Celaenorhinus Thrax. 



Moore, Cat. Lcp. E. /. C, /,/. 254 (1857) . . . Hesperia Irava. 



Hewhson, Dcsc. Hesp., /. 25 (1868) „ Hypaepa. 



Plotz, StetL Ent. ZciL, 1882, s. 328, No. 80 . . . „ Irava. 



Distant, R/iop. Mai. p. 395, pi. 34. /<i.'- 15 (1882 — 1886) Hidari Irava. 



De Niceville, Butt, of Sumatra, /. 543 (1895). • • » .. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trayis. Zoo/. Soc. 0/ London, 14, 4, 



A 235 (1897) 



W. J. Depok (95); Buitenzorg (265); Sindanglaya (1074); Tjimahi (760); 

 neighbourhood of the Tjiletou or Sandbay on the south coast (+ 200). 



C. J.? 



E. J. Province of Pasourouan (+ 500) (Fruhst.). 



I found seven of these larvae gregariously living in a rolled up part of a 

 leaf of the kelappa (Cocos Nucifera L.), which abode they left now and then 

 to go and feed on the not folded part of the leaf first of all. It is to be found 

 also on kiray (Metroxylon Sagu Rottb.). The larva is yellowish green, and 

 so transparent that the vas dorsalis as a dark stroke und the yellow testes 

 shine through. A broad brown line along both sides of the body ; both lines 

 unite at the back of the last segment. The anal extremity is rounded off. 

 The head is a reddish-brown, sometimes black, with large dark orange-coloured 

 spots. The pupa also is reddish-brown with a dark brown line on the sides ; 

 it is powdered blue; the straight haustellum is not so long as the abdomen. 

 A pupa of the 7* of March gave the imago on the 17"' of that same month. 



According to J. AV. Tuth {A Natural History of the British Lepidoptcra) 

 it should be mentioned by de Niceville that the larvae of this species and 



