T-I2 HIDARI. 



160. HIDARI IRAVA, MOORE- 



Hesperia irava, Moore (Horsfield and Moore), Cat. Lep. M,us. E. I. C., 

 vol. i, p. 254, n. 583 (1857). 



Hesperia ^rava, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. xliii, p. 328, n. 80 (1882). 



Cetenorrhirius thrax, Hiibner (nee Linnaeus), Zutr. Ex. Schmett., figs. 875, 

 876 (1832). 



Hesperia hypcepa, Hewitson, Desc. Hesp., p. 25, n. 7 (1868). 



Erionota hypcepa, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xxi, p. 35, n. 115 

 (1878). 



Casyapa irava, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc., second series, Zool., vol. i, 

 p. 553, n. 2 (1877). 



Erionota irava, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xxi, p. 35, n. 116(1878). 



Hidavi irava, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 395, pi. xxxiv, fig. 15, 9 (1886). 



" Male and female. Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings 

 with the basal costal area rufous, and the disc much darker, containing 

 four pale ochraceous spots, situate one in cell, and three beneath cell 

 divided by the median nervules, and two (sometimes only one) small greyish 

 subapical spots ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish-ochraceous. 

 Wings beneath very much paler than above ; anterior wings with the disc 

 blackish, spotted as above, and with small fuscous spots divided by the 

 lower discoidal nervule ; posterior wings with usually four small fuscous 

 discal spots in curved series. Body and legs more or less concolorous 



with wings. 



Expanse : and 9 > 5 2 to 64 millims. 



Habitat : Malay Peninsula, Penang (coll. Distant) ; Perak (Kiinstler, coll. 

 Distant} ; Malacca (coll. Staudinger ; Pinwill, Brit. Mus. ; Biggs, coll. Distant) ; 

 Java (Horsfield).' 1 (Distant, I. c.) 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville, and there is a single 

 specimen in the Rangoon Museum from Myittha, Tavoy. 



161. HIDARI BHAWANI, DE NICEVILLE. 



Hidavi bhawani, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. Ivii, pt. 2, p. 291, n. 23, 

 pi. xiii, f. 6, # (1888). 



" Male. Upperside, both wings ochreous-brown. Forewing with 

 four lustrous semi-transparent pale yellow spots, one just beyond the 

 middle of the cell much constricted in the middle, an oval one in the upper 

 discoidal interspace, a squarish one near the middle of the second median 

 interspace, and the last near the middle of the first median interspace, 

 lunular ; a small opaque spot in the submedian interspace touching the 

 middle of the submedian nervure. Hindwing unmarked, but densely woolly 

 towards the base. Underside, forewing brown, the costa and the apex 

 broadly pale ochreous more or less striated with fine brown lines; the 

 four semi-transparent spots as above, but with two minute ones above 

 the subapical spot divided by the fourth subcostal nervule ; the spot in 



