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vein, indications of two dark brown discal spots, often obsolete. Anteunte lilaclv with 

 whitish dots on the underside ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the wings on the 

 upperside, dark grey with white hairs on the underside, legs brown, marked with white, 

 the forelegs white beneath. 



Female like the male, the white spots somewhat larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ lj% to ly^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma, Andaman Islands. 



Distribution. — The type, a male in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, came from the 

 Andamans ; we have it from Port Blair ; Elwes and de Niceville record it from 

 Sikkim, Watson from Burma and the Chin Hills, and Elwes from the Karen Hills 

 and East Pegu ; it is in the B. M. also from Eangoon and Beeling. Some authors 

 have put this species as a synonym to S. said, Hewitson, from Singapore ; we have 

 carefully examined Hewitson's type, which, in so far as we know, is unique, it does 

 not appear to us to be the same as aditus, the wings are longer, it lacks the suli- 

 apical spot in the forewing and is differently coloured on the underside. Elwes and 

 Edwards' figure represents aditus, not sala. 



SUASTUS MINUTA. 

 Plate 792, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Tagiades minuta, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 343; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. I7G, pi. G.'^, 



tigs. 4, 4a (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 'J(i (1891). 

 Suastiis minuta, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 429. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 180. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 12. 

 Apaustus sinJtalus, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxix. p. 228 (1885), unpublished plate No. 1468. 

 Suastus swcrcja, Watson (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 76. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish-brown, without any markings. Cilia of 

 forewing brown, whitish at hinder angle, of hindwing white, with a few Ijrown marks 

 in it. Underside. Forewing paler browTi, an obscure whitish mark at the upper end 

 of the cell and another (less obscure) in the middle of the interno-median inter.space. 

 Hindwing with the costal space broadly suffused with brown, the re.st of the wing; blue- 

 grey, sparsely covered with minute brown scales, thickest towards the outer margin, a 

 small black spot at the end of the cell, a large one in the middle of the interno-median 

 interspace, with a spot or two, more or less obsolescent, aljove it, a black .spot at the 

 anal angle, with one or two obscure spots on the margin in the interspaces above it. 

 Antennae black, with whitish dots on the underside; palpi, head and l)ody blackish- 

 brown above, grey on the underside, legs brown above, grey beneath. 



Female like the male, liut with comparatively longer forewing ; on the underside, 

 the whitish mark in the middle of the interno-median interspace is large, the grey 

 portion of the hindwing is paler, the anal spot generally absent. 



