THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZL\E OF NAT[JRAL HISTORY, 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. U. FEBRUARY 1909. 



XIII. — New Species of Indo-Malai/an and African 

 Lepidoptera. By Colonel C. Swinhoe, iM.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Family Hesperidae. 

 Celcenorhinus zea, no v. 



? . Uniform dark olive-brown above; palpi below, pectus, 

 legs beneath, and segmental bands on the underside of the 

 abdomen greyish ochreous : fore wings with a broad discal 

 band much as in C. dhanda, Moore, but cut short and square 

 on vein 2, with a small spot attached on the middle which 

 runs 1)elow the vein, the band, which does not quite touciv 

 the costal line, white, tinged with ochreous and semihyaline ; 

 three subapical whitish dots, the middle dot inwards and 

 attached to the upper dot, which is minute : hind wings 

 without markings. On the underside of the fore wings tlie 

 discal band is produced to the hinder angle (which it does 

 not quite touch), the extension being caused by an adjoining 

 large spot of the same colour as the rest of the band : hind 

 wings without markings : antennge broken. 



Expanse of wings \-^j^ inch. 



Khasia Hills; one example. 



Apparently a perfectly distinct form; the band on the 

 underside of the fore wings is very similar to the band on the 

 underside of the fore wings of C. oflnis, Elwes, which 1 also 



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