CHOASPES. 



" Wings above dark fuliginous ; anterior wings with eight pale irregu- 

 lar spots, of which four are in oblique series from upper discoidal nervule 

 to lower median nervule, three divided by the fourth and fifth subcostal 

 nervules and one in cell ; posterior wings with the disk pale greyish. 

 Wings beneath somewhat paler than above ; anterior wings spotted as 

 above, and with some submarginal greyish streaks near apex ; posterior 

 wings with the pale discal area much larger than above, and extending to 

 the outer margin between apex and median nervules. Body more or less 

 concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, 55 millim. 



Habitat, India sic. (Hewitson) ; Malay Peninsula, Malacca (Biggs, coll. 

 Distant) ; Java (Feldev and Hewitson).'" (Distant, I. c.) 



In collection de Niceville. 



GENUS III. CHOASPES, 



Choaspes, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 158 (1881). 



Choaspes, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 372 (1882-86). 



" Forewing somewhat narrower and more regularly triangular than in 

 Ismene ; cell broader ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the 

 cell ; disco-cellulars very oblique ; middle median emitted at one-fourth 

 and lower at three-fourths before end of the cell. No glandular patch in 

 male ; hindwing somewhat shorter ; anterior margin more oblique, and 

 margin prominently lobed, abdominal margin longer ; second subcostal 

 emitted at one-third from the base ; middle median from near end of the 

 cell, lower at one-half before the end ; antennae much slenderer throughout. 



Type, C. benjamini:' (Moore, I. c.) 



3. CHOASPES BENJAMINI, GUERIN. 



Thymele benjamini, Guerin, Delessert's Souv. Voy. Ind., ii, p. 79, pi. 



22, figS. 2. 2 a (1843). 



Hesperia xanthopogon, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, vol. iv., p. 453, pi. 18, 

 figs, i, 2. (1844). 



Choaspes benjamini, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 159, pi. 64, figs. i. a. b. 

 (1880-81). 



" Male. Upperside glossy bluish purple olive brown, the basal area 

 more distinctly olive brown. Cilia of hindwing and anal lobe broadly 

 ochreous-red. Female, deeper olive brown. Underside glossy aenescent 

 olive brown, the veins black ; forewing with a broad pale cupreous brown 

 band on posterior margin ; hindwing with a broad ochreous-red lobular 

 patch with black macular upper border and broad central angular streak. 

 Thorax greyish olive above, vertex bluish olive, abdomen brown ; palpi 

 and thorax in front and abdomen beneath, ochreous-red. 



Expanse, 2 to 2^ inches. 



Larva with broad transverse dorsal black and yellow bands and two 

 rows of white spots along the back ; head, two anal segments and laterally 

 below the bands red ; face black spotted. Pupa pinkish grey black spotted. 



