SUASTUS. 5 1 



end of the cell ; disco-cellulars slightly oblique, radial very indistinct ; 

 middle median close to end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end J 

 submedian and internal straight. Body moderate : palpi thick, bristly at 

 the sides, terminal joint long, slender, pointed ; antennal club thickish, 

 slender at tip, legs long, slender, almost naked. 

 Type S. grcmms." (Moore, I. c.) 



66. SUASTUS GREMIUS, FABRICIUS. 



Hesperia gremius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Sup., p. 433 (1798)* 



Hesperia divodasa, Moore, Cat. Lep., E. I. C., vol. i, p. 255 (1857). 



Suastns gremius, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 168 (1881). 



" Upperside dark olive-brown ; base of fore wing and anal area of 

 hindwing greenish-olive ; forewing with three small semi-transparent 

 yellow spots before the apex, two large somewhat quadrate spots and 

 a broken or lunate spot within end of the cell, beneath these are also 

 two lower discal yellow spots but which are not transparent, the 

 penultimate spot being very small. Underside grey ; forewing with 

 the discal area brownish ; spots as above : hindwing with a black spot 

 within the cell, and a curved discal series of black spots. 



Expanse : i| inches." (Moore, I. c. in Lep. Cey.) 



Recorded from Ceylon (Wade, Hutchison, Mackwood) ; Calcutta (de Nice- 

 ville) ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Kumaon (Doherty) ; Kangra District, N.-W. Himala- 

 yas (Moore) ; Poona, Bombay, Mhow, Depalpore, Neemuch (Swinhoe) ; 

 Nilgiris (Hampson) ; Sikkim (de Niceville ; Elwes). 



Larva feeds on date-palm. 



I have specimens of this species from Madras, Berhampore, Ganjam 

 and Bezvada, Kistna District. 



In collection Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



67.-SUASTUS SALA, HEWITSON. 



Hesperia sala, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., ser. 3, vol. ii, 1866, 

 p. 500. 



Hesperia sala, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. i, pt. 

 2, p. 259, n. 124 (1881.) 



" Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing with four transparent spots ; 

 two in the cell minute. Underside grey. Anterior wing dark brown 

 near the base ; with three minute brown spots before the apex. Posterior 

 wing with a spot near the middle forming the centre of a circle of several 

 similar brown spots. Expanse, i T 3 o inches. 



Habitat : Singapore." (Hewitson, I. c.) 



II Female, wings above vandyke-brown with a very faint vinaceous 

 tinge. Anterior wings with four semi-transparent white lustrous spots all 

 close together in middle of the disk, two in the cell, the posterior of which 

 is double the size of the anterior, which is the smallest of all, another 

 immediately behind and in the same straight line with these, quadrate, 



