152 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Expanse of wings. $ ? ly% to ly^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



The types caine from Ceylon, we have both sexes from KanJy. 



SUASTUS BIPUNCTUS. 

 Plate 792, figs. 3, <? , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Siiastus bipundus, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 346. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 76; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 429. Ehves and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1897, p. 180, pi. 18, fig. 14, <J. 



Suastus adiius, Hampson (nee Moore), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 365. 



Imago. — Male and Female. Upperside black or very dark blackish-brown. Fore- 

 iring with three or four minute white spots in an oblique line across the disc, varying 

 somew'hat in size and number in ditferent examples, one in each of the median inter- 

 spaces, and two towards the apex ; in the female the spots are usually lai'ger, and the 

 lower spot is somewhat quadrate, but all these spots vary much in size in both sexes in 

 diiferent examples. Ilindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings blackish-brown. 

 Underside paler than the upperside. Foreioiny with the spots as above and a small 

 sufi'used white space in the middle of the iuterno-median interspace. Hindwing paler 

 than the forewing, the inner portion of the wing suffused with ochreous scales, a dark 

 spot at the end of the cell, and a discal series limiting the ochreous suffusion. Antennas 

 black, w'ith whitish dots on the underside ; palpi, head and body blackish-brown 

 above and below, w4th white hairs on the underside, and whitish segmental bands on 

 the abdomen, and a whitish patch at its base, legs blackish-brown. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-^^ to ly*o inches. 



Habitat. — Nilgiri Hills, Burma. 



Distribution. — The types in the B. M., and several examples of both sexes in our 

 collection are from the Nilgiris ; it is also in the B. M. from Haundi'aw, Attaran Valley 

 and the Daunat Eauge, Burma. 



SUASTUS GREMIUS. 

 Plate 793, figs. 1, ^ , la, 9,1b, $ , Ic, larva and pupa. 



Hespcria gremius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 433 (1798). Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 271, 

 pi. 3, fig. 7, 9 (1869). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 703. Auriviliius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, 

 p. 150. 



Suastus gremius, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 168 (1881) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 261. Swinhoe, id. 

 1885, p. 147, and 1886, p. 433. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 53. Aitken, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 42. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 365.' 

 Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 450. Cotes, Notes on Indian Economic Entomology, i. p. 9 

 (1889). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 370. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 



