114 PLASTING1A. 



series of seven pale semi-hyaline spots, of which the largest is bifid and 

 situate above the lower median nervule, three the uppermost smallest in 

 oblique series separated by the lower discoidal and upper median nervules, 

 two small and subapical, and one in and near end of cell ; posterior wings 

 with a central transverse fascia connected with base, a narrow streak 

 along inner edge of abdominal margin, and the fringe ochraceous. Wings 

 beneath paler than above ; anterior wings spotted as above, and with a 

 series of dark submarginal streaks placed between the nervules ; posterior 

 wings with the neuration ochraceous, the discal fascia as above, and with 

 a submarginal series of minute ochraceous spots. Body above brownish, 

 with segmental ochraceous fasciae ; body beneath pale ochraceous, abdomen 

 with a central series of dark brownish spots ; legs brownish. 



Expanse : 38 millims. 



Habitat : Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pinwill, Brit Mits.) ; Singapore 

 (coll. Hew it son-, Wallace, coll. Godman and Salvin); Java, Buitenzorg (Felder). 



A single specimen of this species has been obtained in Mergui by Dr. 

 Anderson. 



In collection Indian Museum, 



163. PLASTINGIA NOEMI, DE NICEVILLE. 



Plastingia noemi, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. liv, pt. 2, p. 120, pi. ii, 

 fig. 15 <7 (1885). 



" &. Upperside black. Forewing with a fusiform chrome-yellow 

 streak on the costa from the base to nearly half the length of the wing, a 

 similarly-coloured streak placed below the median nervure and divided by 

 the submedian into two unequal parts, the lower portion the smaller, 

 extending to rather more than half the inner margin of the wing from the 

 base ; and with two or three subapical conjoined increasing spots, two 

 lengthened spots at the end of the cell placed one above the other, the 

 upper one the smaller, a triangular spot towards the base of the second 

 median interspace, a much larger one towards the base of the first, all semi- 

 transparent yellowish-white. Hind wing with a chrome-yellow patch placed 

 in the middle of the disc just beyond the cell, and divided by the black 

 nervules. Underside, forewing black, the costa narrowly, the apex very 

 widely, and a patch placed in the middle of the submedian interspace 

 chrome-yellow. The semi-transparent spots as above. Five rounded 

 small black spots placed in an outwardly-angled subapical series. Hindwing 

 chrome-yellow; the margin increasingly to the anal angle, then decreasingly 

 up the abdominal margin black. A subbasal spot, another at the end of the 

 cell, a series of eight spots placed round the cell, all black. Antennas black, 

 the club yellow. Thorax and base of abdomen above clothed with long 

 greenish-ochreous hairs, the rest of the abdomen black ringed with yellow, 

 the thorax and legs beneath chrome-yellow. 



Expanse ; 1-6 inches. 



