410 ColoiK'l 0. Swinlioc on new 



Fatnily Hesperiid». 

 ILaora phi/eta <. 



iKDiene philetas, Pliitz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. oo (1834), unpublished 



plato no. 1 1 59. 

 Jfnsora f!imi)/ivis.tima, Swinhoe (part.), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 84. 

 Hanora mi.vtn, Fruhstorfer (part.), Iri3, 1911, p. 63. 



Hah. Philippines. 



Fnxlistorrer puts phihtas as a sj'iionym to mixta, Mab., but 

 m\j'ta like simph'cissima is a Parata, whereas phi/etas (which 

 ►StMiiper wroui^ly identified in llhop, Phil.), is a Flasora, without 

 the stii^nia on the fore wino:, thoU'j;h the inarkings are very 

 .similar; T have ;)///7r'/(i,s male fiom the Philippines which 

 exactly corre3|)onds with Plotz's figure. 



Nolocrypta tobrianda, nov. 



(^ ? . Somewhat similar to A^. ahiensin, Swinhoe, Ann. (fe 

 Mag. N. H. (7) XX. p. 4;U (1907), from the Solomon Islands, 

 figured in Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, pi. iii. fig. 11, and 

 N. wokana, Plotz (from Aru Isl.), Berl. ent. Zeit. xxix. 

 p. 22.5 (1885), a copy of Plotz's figure given in the same 

 plate (fig. 9), but in neither sex are there any dots or any 

 other markings above or below, there being only the discal 

 white band of" the fore wing wiiich is very much narrower 

 than in either of the above-named species, is much more 

 curved, narrows hindwards in the male into a square spot, is 

 similar iii the female, but is of the same width throughout. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ly^o, ? li^o i'*ch. 



IJab. Kiiiwini Isl., Tobriand group. 



Eetion elia-ehurus. 



Hesjwin ebunts, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. x.vix. p. 226 (1885), un- 



publislied plate no. 137.3. 

 Eetion elia-ayankara, Frulistorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 19. 



Nab. Malacca, Perak. 



A somewhat variable form, though the type form elia, Hew.,, 

 from Sumatra, is fairly constant. 



Telicota hambusce kiiiwinia, nov, 



S . Resembles T. pythias^ Mabille, Pet. Nouve, ii. p. 374 

 (1878), from Java, Sumatra, and Nias ; the markings arc 

 very similar^ but the colour is paler ; the fore wing is longer 

 and the hind wing produced hindwards. 



? . Very different from the females of pythias. Upper- 

 side : fore wing nearly all black ; an orange streak on the 

 basal half of the cosla ; a small streak below its outer end ; 

 a streak on the median vein from near the base to the origin 



