214 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AJVD JAMES BDWAEDS : 



dorsum, where it is in great part covered by the upper series of the fringe of hair-scales, 

 is pale grey : hind wing with two small, feeble, roundish, sordid white spots, one before 

 the middle of each of cells 2 and 3. Fringe brownish grey, the short scales brown. 

 AntenniE, body, and legs concolorous with the wings, the clothing of the scapulae 

 appearing metaUic green in a strong light. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Hah. Philippines {Semper). 



Described from Herr Semper's single male specimen from Central Luzon and one 

 from Mindoro in coll. Staudinger. The latter differs from the former only in having a 

 small pale spot in each of cells 7 and 8 on the fore wing below. 



! Sepa ciliata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 22, 6 .) 



6 . Upperside dark brown with a faint purple shade. Dorsum of the fore wing 

 sinuate and bearing on its middle third a fringe of long hairs, which are directed 

 obliquely outward and downward. Underside similar in colour ; dorsal region of the 

 fore wing pale brown as far as vein 2, the dorsum bearing on its middle third a thick 

 fringe of long hairs directed obliquely upward and outward, of which those nearer the 

 base are more obliquely placed than the remainder. Fringes brown. Antennae, body, 

 and legs concolorous with the wings. 



2 . Similar to the male, but a little larger and paler. 



Expanse, 6 32 mm., $ 35 mm. 



Described from a single pair from Pulo Laut {Boherty). 



Type in coll. Elwes. 



ISepa noctis. 



Pamphila noctis, Staudinger, Iris, ii. p. 143 (1889). 



Plesioneura dissimilis, Snellen, in litt. 



Pamphila perfusca, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii. p. 53 (1893). 



A little larger than the preceding species, with no purple tinge, and no infra-alar 

 tuft on the fore wing of the male. 



Hah. Palawan, Mindanao {in coll. Staudinger); Pulo Laut {Doherty); W. Java 

 [Piepers) ; Sumatra {Martin, in coll. Rothschild). 



Herr Snellen has kindly sent us a pair of his Plesioneura dissimilis. The male we are 

 unable to distinguish from ^^ Pamjjhila" noctis, Stgr., of which we have several speci- 

 mens, including one from Dr. Staudinger. The female is a brown insect with a broad 

 white discal band on the fore wing between the upper edge of the cell and vein 2, 

 composed of the following hyaline white spots, namely — a large oblong one across the 

 cell near its apical third, a small one filling up the base of cell 3, and a large one, 

 oblong with rounded angles, in cell 2. Save that the white band on the fore wing is cut 

 short by vein 2 and there is no suffused white subtornal patch on the fore wing below. 



