EBIONOTIN^. 159 



Expanse of wings, J $ 2y-^ to 2y% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Andamans, Nicobars, Soutli India. 



Distribution. — The types from the Andamans are in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. We have it from the Khasia Hills and from Kolar in South India. The 

 type of la7\i came from the Nicobars ; de Niceville records it also from Sikkim. 



ERIONOTA ATTINA. 



Plate 794, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, 9 , 3b, i , 3c, ? . 



Hesperia attina, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1SG6, p. 489, 9- 



Unkana attina, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 371, pi. 34, fig. 30, 9 (1886). Semper, Rhop. Philipp. 



p. 288 (1892). Watson, Hasp. Ind. p. 4 (1891) ; id. Prnc. Zool. Soo. 1893, p. 123. Elwes ami 



Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 234. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 30. Adamson. 



Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 144. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 18. 

 Erionota attina, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. de Nieeville and Martin, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 538. 

 Hesperia latreillei, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. p. 511, pi. 71, fig. 8, 9 (1866). 

 Ismene hatara, Moore, MS. Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C, i. p. 249, ^ (1857). 



Unkana hatara, Distant, I.e. p. 370, pi. 34, fig. 11, ^ (1886). Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 645. 

 Goniloha crnda, Herrich-Schafier, Prod. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 75 (1869). 



Hesperia anilta, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xliii. p. 339 (1882), unpublished plate No. 1374, ^ . 

 Unkana attina palawana, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 19. 

 Unkana attina mindanaensis, Fiuhstorfer, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark fuliginous-brown with an oehreous tint. Fore- 

 luing with greyish-white semi-transparent spots, a large one crossing the cell near its 

 end, more or less excavated on both sides, a large sul)quadrate spot near the base of 

 the first median interspace, a smaller spot near the base of the second median interspace, 

 one in each of the next two upper interspaces, very small and nearly in a line with the 

 discal spots, and four equally small spots from near the costa, the upper three some- 

 what elongate, the uppermost one sometimes obsolete, these six spots forming an 

 outwardly acute angle, a pale streak near the middle of the hinder margin, not always 

 present. Jlinthcing without markings. Cilia of both wings ochreous-white. Under- 

 side paler, with a chocolate-grey tint. Forewing with the niargins broadly much paler 

 than the middle of the wing, the spots as on the upper side. liindwing witli greyish- 

 white streaks in the interspaces, two or three at the base of the wing, and a discal 

 and a marginal middle series. Antennae blackish-brown, the shaft spotted with white 

 on the underside, the club with the tip and on the underside rufous ; palpi, head, body 

 and legs concolorous with the wings, the abdomen with indistinct grey bands ; on the 

 underside the palpi are pinkish spotted with white, and there is a white spot on each 

 side below the eyes. 



