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the largest of all, being fully double the size of the posterior of the two 

 cellular ones, and the fourth placed quincuncially between the second and 

 third and rather smaller than the former of these. Posterior wings 

 immaculate. Wings below paler, darkest around the spots in the 

 anterior ones, all also suffused with vinaceous. Anterior ones with the 

 sutural area ashy, and a large patch in the interno-median area whiter 

 and showing through on the upperside as a somewhat diffused whitish 

 speck. Posterior wings clothed with ashy scales and bearing a cellular 

 roundish spot darker than the ground-colour, around which spot are 

 semi-circularly arranged three or four similar ones, as in H. divodasa. 

 Cilia dusky-ashy. 



Expanse: 1*23 inches. 



Habitat : Andamans. Closely allied to H. divodasa, Moore (= 5. 

 gremius, Fabricius). 



The " three minute brown spots before the apex" of the anterior 

 wings mentioned by Hewitson are not discernible in our two specimens; 

 they correspond to the dark brown marks which hound the apical dots 

 on both sides in some specimens of H. divodasa, and, consequently, 

 represent the apical semi-transparent dots of that species." (Wood-Mason 

 and de Niceville, I. c.) 



68. SUASTUS ADITUS, MOORE. 



Suastus aditus, Moore, J. A. S. B., 1884, p. 49. 



" Male. Upperside dark violet-brown : forewing with two small 

 quadrate yellow spots at end of the cell, a larger spot immediately beneath 

 end of the cell between the middle and lower medians, and a small spot 

 between the base of upper and middle medians ; between the lower 

 median and submedian is a very slight trace of an opaque yellowish 

 streak ; cilia edged with grey. Underside paler brown : forewing with 

 the spots as above, and a whitish discal patch below them : hindwing 

 speckled with olive-grey scales, which are most thickly disposed along the 

 abdominal border and form a distinct line along the submedian vein ; 

 two dark brown discal spots, one being situated between the middle and 

 the lower medians, the other between the latter and submedian. Body, 

 palpi, and legs beneath olivaceous-grey. 



Expanse : i T 2 y inches. 



Habitat : Andaman Isles. 



Allied to S. sala (Hesperia sola, Hewitson)." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also occurs in Orissa (Taylor) ; Nilgiris (Hampson) ; Sikkim (Elwes). 



Mr. Hampson notes that Nilgiri specimens differ from Andaman ones 

 in the spots of the forewing being smaller, the underside of the hindwing 

 being suffused on the disc with purple. 



I have specimens of this species from Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, 

 and from Rangoon. 



In collection Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



