RHOPA LOCK It. I Ml LA Y. | A',i . 



:tl»y 



towards base, a subcostal greyish-white si)ot, and a ceutral dark castaiieons linear spot. Body al)ove 

 olivaceous-brown, beneath with legs greyish. 



Exp. wings, (? and $ , 45 to 50 millim. 



Had. — Continental India; N.W. Himalaya (TTocking — Moore) ; Bengal (Moore); Sikkim (de Nic). — 

 Ceylon (Moore). — Malay Peninsula ; Perak (coll. Godfery ; Kiinst.— Cale. ]\Ius.') ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — 

 coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus. ; Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (Wallace — coll. Godm. il- Salv.). — 

 Siam ; Chentaboon (Drucel. — Java (Mabille). 



Genus PLESIONEURA. 



PU'sionriirti, Peldor, Wieii. Eut. Moii. vi. p. 'ilj (lHt>2); Mooii', Li'p. Cfvl. vol. i. p. 177 1IH8I). 



In this genus the inner margin of the anterior wings is longer than the outer margin, thus agi'eeing 

 with the two following genera, but it possesses a distinctive character in the position of the second median 

 nervule to the anterior wings, which has its base close to that of the upper and remote from the lower 

 median nervule, or more than twice as far apart from that uervule as from the upper one. 



1. Plesioneura alysos. (Tab. XXXIV., tig. 7). 



Pksioneura AUjmii, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 18G5, p. 789 ; ibid. 1877, p. 593; Lop. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 17K, t. G7, 

 f. 3, ((, h (1881); Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 2G3 ; Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 55G, 

 n. 2 (1877); Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A. H. Beng. vol. xlix. p. 241, n. 80 il«8()); do Nic. J.A. S. 

 Beng. vol. L. p. GO. n. 128 (1881); Mab. Ami. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxi. p. 33, h. 98 (1878). 



Hesperia Ah/s„s, Horsf. & Moore, MS. Cat. Lap. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 253, n. 577 (1857). 



Male. Wings above dark fuscous ; anterior wings with a discal transverse whitish fascia, crossing wing 

 near end of cell and not reaching either the costal or inner margins and with a small whitish spot between 

 the upper median and the lower discoidal nervule. Anterior wings beneath paler than above, espccnally 

 near outer margin, the fascia and spot as above, but the first more or less connected with the costal 

 margin ; posterior wings beneath much paler than above, with a somewhat indistinct darker curved discal 

 fascia. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, S , 30 to 38 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking— Moore) : Bengal (Moore) ; Sikkim (de Nic.).— 

 Ceylon (Moore).— Andaman Islands; Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— Malay Peninsula; Penang (coll. 

 Dist.) ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. 

 Mus. ; Biggs— coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (Wallace— coll. Godm. & Salv.).— Java (Mab.). 



The female, as found in Ceylon, is thus described by Mr. Moore :—" Forewing with 

 broader medial band, three subapical spots, the spot between upper median and radial, and 

 sometimes another between the upper and middle medians." ' 



Mr. Moore also descri])cs the Ceylonese males as having " either one or two very small 

 oblique subapical spots," l)ut there is no trace of these in any of tlie specimens from the 

 Malav Peninsula which I have examined. 



The larva as observed in Ceylon is descril)ed as •• pale green, wliite s])eckled ; bead black 



bordered. Feeds on Zinziberaceag." f 



Lcp. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 17S (1881). 



Ibid. 



