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nervules all arising close together at the lower end of the cell, second 

 median arising nearer to the first than to the third ; submedian and 

 internal nervures nearly straight, slightly bowed forwards. Antennae 

 more than half the length of the costa of the forewing, the club 

 stout, with a long terminal whip-like crook. Palpi, second joint 

 very hairy ; third joint also hairy, prominent, long, porrected forwards 

 in front of the face in the same straight line as the axis of the body. 

 Thoeax robust. Abdomen rather slender, not quite reaching to 

 the outer margin of the hindwing. Legs, femur and tibia of all three 

 legs most densely hairy in both sexes, but the male does not appear 

 to be furnished with sexual tufts of hairs. Female. Differs from 

 the male only in the absence of the secondary sexual characters, and 

 the much stouter abdomen. Type, " Hesperia" cyrina, Hewitson. 



This genus appears to be nearest to Lotongus, Distant, of which the 

 type is the " Eudamus '* calathus of Hewitson, from the Daunat Eange, 

 Tenasserim, Burma ; Malacca ; Sumatra and Java. I possess male 

 examples of Lotongus sclicedia, Hewitson (= L. maculatus, Distant), 

 from Perak in the Malay Peninsula, and Selesseh in N.-E. Sumatra, and 

 a female from the Battak Mountains also in N.-E. Sumatra, taken in 

 March, and both sexes of L. parthenope,W eymer, from Nias, from which 

 C. cyrina differs in having the third joint of the palpi much longer ; 

 the middle and lower disco-cellular nervules of the forewing much 

 more strongly inwardly oblique, in Lotongus they are nearly upright ; 

 and in the presence in the male of the swollen first median nervule in 

 the forewing, and in the very heavy setose clothing of the abdominal 

 area of the hindwing on the upperside, both these secondary sexual 

 characters being absent in Lotongus, The legs too in Creteus in both 

 sexes are far more densely setose than in Lotongus. 



(1) CRETEUS CYRINA, Hewitson. 



Hesperia cyrina, Hewitson, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xviii, 

 p. 450 (1876) ; Parnara parca, de Nice'ville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. iv, 

 p. 174, n. 13, pi. B, fig. 10, female (1889). 



Habitat : Sikkim ; Bhutan ; Khasi Hills. 



Genus ZELA, nov. 

 Male. Fokewing, cost a straight, a little arched only at the base 

 and apex ; apex acute ; .\outer margin almost straight, a little convex 



