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ochreous, spots as above, but the series of sub-margiual dots is complete, and there is an 

 extra large spot below the middle of the costa, the abdominal fold white. Autennse 

 black, white beneath, tip of club white ; palpi Ijeneath, pectus and abdomen white, legs 

 white ; head and body above coneolorous with the wings, tip of abdomen white. 



Female like the male, Ijut all the spots are larger, and the sub-marginal series of 

 white dots on the upperside of the hindwing is complete. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ IfV to lyo inches. 



Habitat. — Persia, Beloochistan. 



Distribution. — The type came from (jtuetta, we have both sexes from Quetta and 

 Giridik on the Afghan boi-der ; there is an example in the B. M. from Shahrud, Persia. 



SPIALIA SAO. 

 Plate 781, figs. 4, ^ , ia, ? , 4b, $ . 



Papilio sao, Bergstrasser, Nomencl. ii. pi. 40, figs. 8, 9 (1779). Hiibner, Eur. Sclimett. i. figs. 471, 



472 (1803). 

 Pyrgus sao, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 94. 

 Hesperia sao, Latreille, Enc. Meth. i.x. p. 782 (1823). Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 65. Ehves 



and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 1-58. Leslie and Evans, Joura. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1903, p. 677. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, spots white. Forewlixj with a lunular spot in 

 the cell near its end, a thin indistinct whitish line closing the cell, four sub-apical 

 spots close together in a curve from near the costa, the lowest generally minute and 

 indistinct, a spot towards the base of the second median interspace, another inwards 

 below towards the base of the first median interspace, three (.sometimes four) obscure 

 white spots below it, in the interuo-median interspace and a series of sub-margiual 

 dots. Hindwing with a liar-shaped spot closing the cell, a small spot near the base of 

 the second median interspace, a slightly larger spot before the middle of the first 

 median interspace, and a sub-marginal series of dots, becoming obsolete upwards and 

 hindwards. Cilia of both wings checkered black and white. Underside. Forewing 

 with the margins chocolate-grey, the inner portion of the wing sufl'used with black, the 

 base with bluish-grey scales, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing dark chocolate- 

 brown or reddish-brown, the abdominal fold greyish-white, a white patch at the costal 

 base, a white spot in the middle of the cell with another below it on the abdominal 

 margin near the base, a large irregular-shaped spot at the end of the cell, two larger 

 spots in the inter.spaces above it, and two smaller spots in the interspaces below it, the 

 five spots forming a macular band across the wing, a sub-marginal series of spots, the 

 spots at the apex and on vein 5 very large, the latter running out and joining the 

 white patch on the cilia. Cilia checkered brown and white. Antennae black above. 



