1878.] INSECTS FROM UPPER TENASSKRI M. 843 



the lower discal portion broad : hind wing with an indistinct series of 

 marginal and submarginal brown spots. Front of head, palpi, legs, 

 and body beneath yellow. 



Expanse ly 4 ^ inch. 



Hatsiega. In coll. J. Wood-Mason. 



Pamphila math ias. 



Hesperia mathias, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 433 (1798) ; 

 Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. pi. 3. f. 6. 



Moulmein to Meetan. 



Hesperia moolata, n. sp. t 



Male and Female. Upperside dark vinous-brown, slightly olive, 

 brown at the base ; cilia cinereous-yellow : fore wing with a single 

 small semidiaphanous white spot at lower end of the cell, two smaller 

 spots obliquely before the apex, and three below on the disk, the 

 lowest being the largest and angular ; the female with two spots at 

 end of the cell, and a small opaque yellowish spot between lower 

 median branch and submedian vein. Underside brighter-coloured, 

 marked as above, the yellow discal lower spot in female larger. 



Expanse Ik inch. 



Ahsown (2000 feet), March. Moolai to Moolat. 



This species is allied to H. lumara, Moore, from South India, and 

 to H. caJiira from the Andamaus. 



Plesioneura aurivittata, n. sp. (Plate LIII. fig. 2.) 



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

 with a broad oblique golden-yellow discal band curving from middle 

 of the costa to posterior angle, the band semiopaque from the costal 

 vein to lower median branch ; a small curved yellow streak composed 

 of three vein-crossed spots before the apex. Cilia of both wings 

 brown. Underside duller brown : fore wing as above : hind wing 

 slightly yellow-speckled, and with a very indistinct yellowish streak 

 at the end of the cell. 



Expanse l-j? inch. 



Hab. Above Ahsown. In coll. J. "Wood-Mason and F. Moore. 



Allied to P. dhanada, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 789. Distinguished 

 by the oblique transverse band being very broad throughout and ex- 

 tending to the posterior augle, also in the cilia of hind wing being 

 entirely brown. 



Plesioneura albifascia, n. sp. (Plate LIII. fig. 3.) 



Male. Differs from P. alysos, Moore, in its narrower fore wing 

 and smaller hind wing ; the oblique semidiaphanous white band i3 

 shorter and straight, the portion beneath the lower median branch 

 being very small, this part on the underside showing only as a suf- 

 fused white patch ; and there are no subapical spots. 



Expanse 1 1 inch. 



Hatsiega. In coll. J. Wood-Mason. 



A specimen of this species, collected by Mr. Buxton, probably in 

 Sumatra, is in my own collection. 



