SUASTIN^. 149 



PEDESTES PANDITA. 

 Plate 791, figs. 4, <? , 4a, 9,4b, (J. 



Isoteinon pandita, de Niceville, Jnurn. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 181, pi. 2, fig. 14, 9- Watson, 



Hesp. Ind. p. 81 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 654. 

 Peclestes pandila, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 189.3, p. 81. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. 



p. 180 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Ehves and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 193, pi. 24, figs. 41a, h (genitalia). Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. 



Northumberland, etc., 1908, p. 143. 



Imago. — Male and Female. Upperside dark blackish-brown, nearly black ; spots 

 wLite. Forewing sparsely covered with minute ochreous scales ; a square-shaped .spot, 

 constricted at its middle, across the end of the cell ; three small spots divided by the 

 veins, from near the costa, one-sixth from the apex ; two larger spots close together 

 in the bases of the median interspaces. Ilindwiuij without markings. Cilia of both 

 wings brownish-ochreous. Underside brown. Foreiviiui with the costa ami outer 

 area covered with minute ochreous scales; spots as aliove. Ilindiriiig with, the entire 

 surface similarly covered; no markings. Antennae Idaek, finely ringed with white, 

 club at the tip and on the underside ferruginous ; palpi, head and body concolorous 

 with the wings ; palpi and pectus on the underside with whitish hairs. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ I^-q to If^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma. 



Distribution. — We have it from Bikkim, from whence the type, now in the 

 Indian Museum, came ; Doherty records it from the Naga Hills ; Adamson from 

 Sing[Oo in the Eastern Shan Hills, and from the Chindwin River, Burma. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Pedestes fuscleornts, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 194, pi. 18, fig. 25, ^ , and pi. 24, 



tig. 43 (genitalia). Habitat, Pulo Laut. 

 Pedestes parnaca, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 99. Habitat, Tonkin. 



Pedestes tali, uov. Male. Upperside like P. masurieasis, but much larger, all the 

 white spots on the forewing more than double the size, the white elongated spots in 

 the sub-median interspaces filling up the interspaces from their Ijases for more than half 

 their length, two short white streaks below them in the interno-median interspace and 

 a longer and more prominent white streak below these close to the hinder margin. 

 Underside with the costa and apical area of the forewing and the entire surface of the 

 hindwing paler and more ochreous than masw'iensis. 



Expanse of wings, Ij inches. 



Habitat. — Tali, Haut Yunnan. 



Described from two males in perfect condition in our collection. 



