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rarity of that sex. Two specimens only were obtained by Baron 

 Schonberg's collector Wahnes. 



Family HESPERIID.3E. 



37. DAIMIO DIR^S, n. sp., PI. Q, Fig. 49, $. 

 Habitat : Pulo Laut ; Java ; N.-E. Sumatra. 

 Expanse : #,1*6 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, loth wings dark shining brown. 

 Cilia cinereous. Forewing with the following hyaline whitish 

 spots :■ — Five very small, apical, forming a sinuous line ; a comma- 

 shaped one towards the end of the discoidal cell ; a small square one 

 towards the base of the second median interspace ; another similar 

 one, but four times as large as the one anterior to it, its outer edge 

 concave, towards the base of the first median interspace : two pairs 

 of indistinct sullied spots in the submedian interspace, the spots of each 

 pair placed one above the other, the inner pair below the inner corner 

 of the large quadrate spot in the interspace above, the outer pair in a 

 line with the small quadrate spot in the second median interspace ; 

 this latter pair of spots has other spots anterior to it on the disc, but 

 highly indistinct. Hindwing with a large oval shining snow-white 

 spot on the middle of the disc, neither reaching the abdominal margin 

 nor the costa ; a rather prominent narrow submarginal macular sullied 

 fascia. Underside, both wings dull instead of shining brown as on the 

 upperside. Forewing with the hyaline spots as on the upperside ; the 

 two pairs of spots in the submedian interspace much purer white, 

 larger, and more conspicuous than above. Hindwing has the large 

 discal spot considerably larger than on the upperside, anteriorly it 

 reaches midway between the costal nervure and the first subcostal 

 nervule, posteriorly almost to the abdominal margin ; the submarginal 

 fascia as on the upperside. Antennce, head) body, and legs dark 

 brown ; palpi with the third joint dark brown, the second chrome- 

 yellow. 



Nearest to D. phisara, Moore, a common species in Sikkim, the Khasi 

 Hills, and Burma, and I have a single example from Perak in the 

 Malay Peninsula ; differing therefrom on the upperside of the forewing 

 in the spot towards the end of the discoidal cell being comma-shaped 



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