ASTICTOPTEBIN^. 143 



Sundd xwci(ia, de Niceville, Joui-n. Bo. Nat. Hist. >Soc. ix. 1895, p. 372; id. idem, p. 4l"J. 



de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 534. Ehves and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 177. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 141. 



Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 92. 

 Suastus molleri, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 49. 



Imago. — Male. UppRr.side dark brown. Foroi-'mij with au elongate, small white 

 .spot at the lower end of the cell, a large spot immediately below it in the first median 

 interspace and a small spot outside wedged into the junction of the two other spots, all 

 of them only divided from each other by the veins; three sub-apical white spots, 

 divided from each other by the veins, the two upper ones very minute, and sometimes 

 one or the other is absent ; an indistinct spot on the middle of the sub-median vein. 

 IHndwing without markings, with some pale brown long hairs in the middle of the 

 disc. Cilia of forewing pale brown, of hindwing grey. Underside. Furew'uKj dark 

 brown, the costa and apex broadly ochreous-grey ; the spots as on the uppcrside. 

 Hindwing uniformly ochreous-grey without any markings. Antenn;e brown, with 

 white dots on the underside ; palpi, head and body above concolorous witli the wings, 

 grey beneath. 



Female like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1-^% to \{'q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma, Java. 



Distribution. — The type male from Sikkim is in the Indian ^Museum, Calcutta ; 

 our description and figures are from a pair in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle, from 

 Bhamo ; de Niceville records it from Beeling, Ataran Valley, the Donat Eauge, Sikkim, 

 Perak, Java and N. E. Sumatra, Elwes from Arguno in Java. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Suada scopas, Heteropterus ? (Steropes) scopas, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, pi. 161, pi. 2, fig. 1_', ^^ 



Habitat, Palawan, Philippines. 

 Siiada catah'urns, Heteropterus? cataleucos, Staudinger, I.e. p. 162, pi. 2, fig. 13, ^. Habitat, 



Borneo, Philippines. 

 Suada alliinus, Suastus albinus. Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 299, pi. 49, fig. 8, 9 (nee (^ ) (1892). 



Habitat, Mindoro, Philippines. 



Sub-Family SUASTIN^. 



Foreivlng, yqIw 12 terminates on the costa before the upper end of the cell, 11 free 

 from 12, arises about one-third befoi'e the upper end of the cell; cell long, but less than 

 two-thirds the length of the costa, middle and lower discocellulars usually in an erect 

 straight line, the lower a little the shorter ; vein 3 arises from near the lower end of 



