150 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Genus SUASTUS. 



Suastui, Mooic, Lep. Cej-lon, i. p. 168 (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 50 (1891) ; id. Proo. Zool. Soc. 

 1893, p. 75; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 425. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 178. 



Poreiciiii/, vein 12 ends on costa well before the end of cell; vein 11 from the 

 upper middle of cell, free from 12, cell less than two-thirds the length of the costa, 

 upper discocellular short, but distinct, the upper end of the cell obliquely bent down, 

 middle and lower discocellulars in an inwardly oblique straight line, the lower a little 

 the shorter, vein 5 consequently being a little nearer to 4 than to 6, 3 emitted at 

 some little distance before lower end of cell, 2 fi-om well before the middle ; costa 

 gently and evenly arched, apex sub-acute, outer margin convex ; about as long as the 

 hinder margin, not so long in the female. Hindicing, vein 7 emitted some little distance 

 before lower end of cell, discocellulars in an inwardly oblique straight line, faint, 

 vein 5 not visible, 3 from close to lower end of cell, 2 from one-fourth before the end, 

 costa arched near its base, outer margin evenly rounded. Antennse more than half the 

 length of the costa of forewing, club moderate, rather long, with a short pointed curve ; 

 palpi upturned, curving backwards over the vertex, second joint densely scaled, third 

 joint slender, long and pointed ; hind tibise fringed and with two pairs of spurs. 



Type, IlefjMria (jremlus, Faljricius. 



SUASTUS ADITUS. 

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Suastus adiias, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 49. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1888, p. 28. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 450. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 52 (1891). Elwes, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 651. Watson, id. 1893, p. 76. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, 

 Butt. p. 179 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429; id. idem, x. 1896, 

 p. 679. 



He^peria sala, Wood-Mason and de Nicedlle (nee Hewitson), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 259. 



Suastus sala, Elwes and Edwards (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 179, pi. 18, lig. 15, (J. Adamson 

 (nee Hewitson), Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 142. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-brown. Forewwrj with two small quadrate, 

 semi-hyaline spots at the end of the cell, the lower the larger, a larger quadrate spot 

 below them near the base of the second median interspace and a small spot outside near 

 the base of the first median interspace, a small indistinct spot immediately above the 

 middle of the sub-median vein. Ilindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings 

 l)rown. Underside paler brown. Forewing with the spots as on the upperside, the 

 lowest spot attached to a rather large opaque whitish spot which expands hindwards 

 into a wliiti.-<h suffusion on the hinder margin. Ilindwing sparsely speckled with 

 minute greyish scales, which form a whitish line on the outer half of the sub-median 



