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SPECIES INCERT^ SEDIS. 



both commencing close to the costa and extending to the submedian 

 nervure when they are joined, and a subapical streak, which joins the 

 discal one, all yellow. Cilia very long and brown. Hindwing with a large 

 irregular-shaped spot in the middle of the disc, with two very small and 

 indistinct ones placed outwardly beyond it. Cilia pale yellow. Underside, 

 both wings much paler, ferruginous-ochreous on the hindwing ; a dark 

 anteciliary line. Forewing with the yellow markings much as above but 

 paler and more extended. Hindwing with the discal spot large and silvery - 

 ochreous, with a small spot in the cell near the base, and another of the 

 same size beyond the outer end of the large discal spot, a lengthened pale 

 ochreous abdominal streak. Antennae short, with a prominent club, the 

 shaft and club fuscous above, the club tipped with ferruginous below, and 

 the shaft pale ochreous. 



Expanse : $ i inch. 



Habitat : Native Sikkim. 



There are two specimens of this very pretty and distinct species in 

 Mr. Otto Moller's collection, obtained by his Native Collectors probably 

 at high elevations in Sikkim near the passes. It is unlike any hesperid 

 known to me." (de Niceville, I. c.) 



Types in collections Moller and Elwes. 



228. PAMPHILA DIMILA, MOORE. 



Pamphila dimila, Moore, P. Z. S., 1874, P: 57^- 



" Allied to P. comma. 



Male arid female. Upperside testaceous ; exterior border broadly 

 fuliginous-brown ; apex of forewing brownish-testaceous. Cilia whitish- 

 testaceous : forewing with a series of small yellow apical spots ; male with 

 an oblique silvery-lined black streak below the cell : hindwing with a 

 yellow spot within the cell, and a curved discal series of four quadrate 

 spots. Underside : forewing pale testaceous ; apical spots as above : hind- 

 wing with basal portion greenish-brown ; three prominent white subbasal 

 spots disposed above, below, and at end of the cell ; a curved discal series 

 of six quadrate white spots. 



Expanse: J 1 i; i inches. 



Habitat : Runang Pass, Busahir (S.-E. side, about 13,000 feet). 

 (Capt. H. B. Hellard)" (Moore, I. c.) 



229. HESPERIA CYRINA, HEWITSON. 



Hespevia cyrina, Hewitson, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., ser. iv, vol. 

 xviii, p. 450 (1876). 



Parnara parca, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iv, p. 

 174, n. 13, pi. B, fig. 10, female (1889). 



