(588 mr. f. moore on new hesperidjE. [June 18, 



fore wing marked as above, the lowest spot being yellow : hind wing 

 with a single discal indistinct yellow spot between the two lower 

 median branches. Palpi and body brown ; tarsi ochreous. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Canara (S. N. Ward). In coll. India Museum, London. 



This species is also found in Ceylon, the male differing from the 

 female above and beneath in the first upper and lowest discal spots 

 being obsolete. 



Hesperia seriata, n. sp. 



Allied to //. kumara. Male differs from the same sex of that 

 species in the discal row of spots being slightly smaller, and in having 

 an additional lower small spot (which is present only in the female 

 of H. kumara). Underside greenish brown; fore wing marked as 

 above, the lowest spot suffused. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Hesperia bevani, u. sp. 



Hale. Upperside dark olive-brown; cilia pale brownish-cinereous; 

 forewingwith a single small, pale white, semidiaphanous spot at upper 

 end of the cell, three contiguous subapical spots, another below 

 these, and two larger spots below obliquely on the disk, a small spot 

 also very indistinctly visible on middle of submedian vein : hind 

 wing without spots. Underside greyish olive-brown ; spots slightly 

 more prominent than above : hind wing with a discal series of five 

 small somewhat indistinct white spots. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Salween, Moulmain (Lieut. Bevan). In coll. F. Moure. 



A male specimen of this species from Calcutta, collected by the 

 late Mr. Atkinson, is in the collection of Dr. O. Staudinger. 



Hesperia bada, n. sp. 



Allied to H. manga! a. 



Male and Female. Upperside dark brown, base of wings olive- 

 brown ; cilia pale cinereous-brown : fore wing with two (in some 

 specimens three) contiguous subapical small white semidiaphanous 

 spots, and three spots below obliquely on the disk, the upper one the 

 smallest : hind wing with a discal irregular linear series of three or 

 four white semidiaphanous spots, more or less indistinct. Under- 

 side greyish-brown ; both wings marked as above, the spots on the 

 hind wing being more prominent. 



Expanse, S 1-r^r, ? lA-ineh. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. 



Also in the collection of Dr. O. Staudinger from Malacca. 



Hesperia farri, n. sp. 



Mule and Female. Upperside ferruginous-brown, base of both 

 wings olive-brown ; cilia yellowish- cinereous : fore wing with two pale 

 yellow semidiaphanous spots at end of the cell, and a discal recurved 



