Hesperidm from the Indo-Malayan and African Bcgions. 29 



Plastingia drancus, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit., xlv, p. 149 



(1884), pi. 726. 

 Tsoteinon indrasana, Elwes aud de Nice v., Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng., 1886, p. 441, pi. xx, f. 5, g (1886). 



No locality (Plotz). 



Plotz's figure is identical with Hewitson's type, with 

 which I have compared it ; in the plate is written in pencil 

 "= corissa, Hew." 



LOTONGUS, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 371 (1886), type 

 calathus, Hew. 



LOTONGUS CALATHUS. 



Endamus calathus, Hew., Ann. and Mag. N. H. (4), xviii, 



p. 353 (1876). 

 Lotongus calathus, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc, 



xiv (4), p. 231 (1897). 

 Hesperia parthenope, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit., xlvii, p. 91 



(1886), pi. 1365, $. 

 Kesperia parthenope, Weymer, Stett. ent. Zeit., xlviii, p. 17, 



pi. ii, f. 8, $ (1887). 

 Lotongus parthenope, de Nicev., Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc, 



xiv (4), p. 354, pi. J, f. 4, $, 5, $ (1892). 

 Hesperia traviata, Plotz, 1. c, p. 91, pi. 1366, $. 

 Lotongus maculatus. Distant, 1. c, p. 372, pi. xxxv, f. 1 (1886). 

 Plesioneura aliena, Stand., Iris, ii, p. 155 (1889). 

 Proteides zalates, Mab., Ann. Soc Ent. Belg., xxxvii, p. 52 



(1893). 

 Proteides surus, Mab., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1895, p. lix. 



Nias, Sumatra (Plotz). 



Hewitson's type came from Sumatra. I agree with Elwes 

 that this is a variable species ; it has also been recorded 

 from the Philippines, Kina Balu, Malacca, Borneo, and 

 Java. Plotz's figure of the male has only the spot at the end 

 of the cell and two outside it, and on the underside, in 

 addition to the discal band of spots, there is only one spot 

 at the end of the cell, none above it ; in the female there 

 is a bifid larger spot at the end of the cell, and two beyond 

 it, and on the underside a similar spot above, and one elon- 

 gated spot below on the hinder margin ; in neither sex is 

 there any white at the apices of the hind-wings below. I 

 have the species from Nias, but in my examples there is 

 a white, narrow, apical space on the hind-wings below. 



