1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW HESPERID.E. 687 



minating before the apex, fourth at the apex, and fifth below it ; dis- 

 cocellulars angled close to the upper end ; upper radial from the 

 angle, lower from their middle ; median vein three-branched, widely 

 apart, the upper from lower end of cell, middle and lower branches at 

 equal distances, the lower from near base of cell ; submedian slightly 

 recurved. Hind wing broadly ovate ; subcostal two-branched, second 

 before end of cell ; discocellulars slightly angled ; radial from their 

 angle ; median three-branched, middle branch from immediately 

 before end of cell. Body small, robust, abdomen short. Palpi short, 

 thick, pilose, ascending, third joint short, conical. Antennae slender. 

 Legs pilose. 



Calliana pieridoides, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 2.) 



Male. Upperside creamy-white, glossy ; fore wing with the apex 

 broadly vinous -brown, the end of the median veins also with a 

 vinous-brown-speckled spot : hind wing with a curved upper discal 

 decreasing series of five purple-black spots, the upper one large and 

 situated between the costal and subcostal veins ; the end of the 

 veins also with a small vinous-brown-speckled spot. Underside 

 white ; fore wing with the cosial base, a patch beyond end of 

 the cell, and the outer border pale vinous-brown : hind wing with 

 a short black narrow streak at end of costal border, four large 

 subbasal and a curved discal series of seven purple-black spots, a 

 marginal series of broad vinous-brown spots, one at end of each vein. 

 Thorax and abdomen white ; collar, top of head, palpi, and tip of 

 abdomen pale ferruginous ; tip of palpi and antennae black ; legs 

 pale ferruginous above, purple-brown beneath. 



Expanse 2-f inches. 



Hab. ? N.E. Bengal {A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore. 



Hesperia narooa, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 4.) 



Male and Female. Upperside dark olive-brown : fore wing with 

 two prominent semidiaphanous yellowish well-separated spots at end 

 of the cell, a subapieal series of three smaller spots, and an oblique 

 discal series of five spots : hind wing with two very small discal 

 spots in male, three in female. Underside dark olive-brown ; fore 

 wing marked as above : hind wing with a prominent white spot at 

 upper end of the cell, and a curved discal series of four spots. Body 

 olive-green. 



Expanse 1-fy inch. 



Hab. Bombay {Wilkinson); Ceylon (Mac/cwood). In coll. F. 

 Moore and F. M. Mackwood. 



Allied to //. contigua, Mabille ; markings similar, but both sexes 

 one third less in size. 



Hesperia kumara. 



Hesperia kumara, Moore, Catal. Lep. E.I. C. i. p. 255 (1857). 



Female. Upperside dark olive-brown ; fore wing with a transverse 

 discal series of seven yellowish semidiaphanous spots from before the 

 apex ; cilia pale brownish-yellow. Underside deep ochreous-brcwn ; 



