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Distribution. — The type male iu the B. M. is from Ceylon ; we have both sexes 

 from Kaudv aud from the Hot AVells, Trincomali ; Watson says it is a form of (/rem ius, 

 it is of course closely allied to it, but it is undoubtedly a form confined to Ceylon. 

 gvemius is a very common Indian species ; we have received very many, l)ut neither in 

 our collection nor amongst the numerous specimens in the B. M. is there any 

 specimen at all resembling suhgriseus from anywhere out of Ceylon, the spotting is not 

 only different, but the underside is quite of a different shade of colour. 



SUASTUS ROBSONI. 



Plate 703, figs. 3, (^ , 3a, $ . 



Suastus rohsoni, de Xicuville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. Ls. 1895, p. .372, pi. Q, fig. 50, (J. Elwes 

 and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 180. de Rhe-Philipe, Joui-n. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 

 1898, p. 598. 



iMAfJO. — Male. Upperside. both wings shining dark hair-lu'own. Cilia cinereous. 

 Foretciug with a very minute hyaline white spot iu the middle of the outer end of the 

 discoidal cell. Ilindwhig rather paler on the disc than elsewhere, owing to the presence 

 of some long dull ochreous hair-like scales. Underside, both wings paler than above. 

 Forewing with the inner half of the wing dark hair-brown as on the upperside ; the cell 

 spot as above ; a pale streak in the middle of the sub-median interspace. Ulndicing 

 (as seen under a strong masnifving glass) overlaid throughout with dull ochreous 

 scales ; an elongated minute black .spot at the end of the cell. Abdomen dark brown 

 above, beneath, each segment is ringed with whitish. 



Nearest to Suastus mimita, Moore, from Ceylon, from which it differs in the cilia 

 of the hindwing being less pure white, and on the underside in having the hindwing 

 practically unmarked, S. minuta having its posterior two-thirds pure white, bearing 

 three prominent dark brown spots. In Lieutenant E. Y. AVatson's revision of the 

 genera of the Hespei-iidse in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 7G, there is a misprint 

 bracketing S. minuta with S. sicerga, de Xice'ville {= S. molleri, Moore), but the two 

 species are abundantly distinct, and are given separate numljers by Lieutenant Watson. 

 S. sirerga has a much wider range than was expected ; not only does it occur in 

 Sikkim, Beeling in North Tenasserim, the Ataran Valley and on the Daunat Eange in 

 Middle Tenasserim, but also in Perak in the Malay Peninsula, and in X.E. Sumatra 

 and .lava. 



Described from a single example obtained on the 12tli July, 189:2, Ijy Mr. S. 

 Robson, after whom I have much pleasure in naming the species, {de Nice'ville.) 



Expanse of wings, J 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — ]Masuri, Western Himalayas. 



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