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obliquely in the median interspaces, the upper the smaller, their outer 

 edffes rounded, their inner edges excavated. Hindwing immaculate. 

 Underside, both wings with the ground-colour as above. Forewing 

 with a prominent pale yellow spot towards the end of the discoidal 

 cell, anteriorly placed against the subcostal nervure, undividedly con- 

 tinued to the costa in a broad streak ; the discal spots as on the upper- 

 side ; the inner margin as far as the first median nervule, but not 

 quite reaching the outer margin, whitish. Hindwing with a straight 

 somewhat narrow ante-discal pale yellow band from the abdominal 

 margin to the costa, slightly interrupted by the submedian 

 fold. Cilia of both wings anteriorly brown, posteriorly cinereous. 

 Antennm fuscous above, the club beneath pale yellow. Palpi, 

 head, thorax, and abdomen above dark brown, beneath and tegs 

 pale yellow. 



Nearest to Lotongus sarala, de Niceville,* from the Khasi Hills 

 (de Niceville), Moupin and Omei-shan, both in Western China, taken 

 in July (Leech), from the figure of the male of which it differs in 

 having two instead of five spots on the upperside of the forewing, no 

 discal patch on the upperside of the hindwing, the band on the under- 

 side of the hindwing half as wide, paler, and less prominently divided 

 by the submedian fold, the cilia on the anal half of the hindwing is 

 cinereous instead of orange-yellow, and the head, thorax, and body 

 above entirely lacking the prominent iridescent green setose covering 

 which is such a prominent and beautiful feature in L. sarala. Of 

 the latter I possess three females from the Khasi Hills. Another 

 very closely allied species is the " Proteides " excellens of Staudinger,t 

 from Palawan in the Philippine Isles (Standing er), N.-E. Sumatra 

 (colls. Ilofrath, Dr. L. Martin and de Niceville), but that species has 

 an additional small subapical spot (sometimes two) in the forewing, 

 has no spot in the submedian interspace of that wing, and the yellow 

 area in the hindwing on both sides is much wider even than it is in 

 L. sarala. I identify this species with " Hesperia " avesta a little 

 doubtfully, as Hewitson says that that species has the " outer " margin 



* Parnara sarala, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Kat. Hist. Soc, vol. iv, p. 178, n. 12, pi. 

 B, fig. 6, female (1889); id., Leech, Butt, from China, Japan, and Corea, p. 615, pi. xxsviii, 

 fig. 11, male (1894). 



t Iris, vol. ii, p. 141, pi. ii, fig. 6, male (1888). 



