160 LEPIDOPTEBA IXDICA. 



Female. Upperside black. Foreicivg with some ochreous scaling at the base, 

 and some whitish hairs at the base of the interno-median interspace, the spots as in 

 the male, usually larger and pure wliite in colour. Hindwing with a very large white 

 patch on the middle of the wing, occupying the outer part of the cell and the inner 

 halves of the median interspaces, and of the interspace above them, the white colour 

 expanding towards the abdominal area to the mai'gin in a greyish suffused form, also 

 reaching the base of the wing, but not extendinor to the anal ansfle. Cilia of forewing 

 brown, of hindwing brown, with white tips. Underside paler black. Forewing with 

 the spots as on the underside, and five quadrate, grey spots on the outer margin from 

 the apex, increasing in size hindwards. Hlndicijvj with the costal space narrowly and 

 irregularly blackish, the anal space broadly blackish, its upper part extending to the 

 middle of vein 5, all the rest of the wing white, suffused with grey at the bat^e and 

 outer portion and the veins blackish. Antennae black, on the underside the shaft is 

 spotted finely with white, and upper half of the club is white ; palpi, head and thorax 

 black, with some grey and white hairs on the thorax, abdomen white with blackish 

 rather broad bands, the basal third covered with gi'ey hairs. Underside, palpi and 

 pectus white, thorax and legs grey, abdomen as on the upperside. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 2^ to 2-i% inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — The type, a female, is described as from India ; the type of hatara, 

 a male from the Malay Peninsula ; we have it from Tenasserim and from Kuching in 

 Borneo ; Felder's and Plotz's types are from Java ; Semper records it from the 

 Philippines, de Niceville and Martin from Sumatra, Adamsou from Maulmein, a 

 male taken on the 22nd of August, and numerous examples taken by him at different 

 seasons. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Erionota s^6iVi7a, Hesperia sybirita, Hewitson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, p. 451. Hiclari sybirita, 



Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 395, pi. 35, fig. 24 (1886). Gangara sybirita, Elwes and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 218. Habitat, Singapore, Borneo. 

 Erionota mahlUei, Erionota (Casyapa) mabillei, Staudinger, Iris, ii. p. 135 (1889). Unkana mabUlei, 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zoul. Soc. 1897, p. 235. Habitat, Philippines. 

 Erionota sakita, Ribbe, Iris, 1890, p. 76. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Erionota grandis, Plesioneura grandis, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 47 (1890). Hidari grandis, Leech, 



Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 633, pi. 39, fig. 13, $ (1893). Habitat, W. China. 

 Erionota sanguinocculus, Martin, Enige neue Tag. von Nordost-Sumatra, p. 5 (1895). de Niceville, 



and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 538. Gangara sanguinocculus, Elwes and 



Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 218, pi. 20, fig. 17. Habitat, N.E. Sumatra, Perak. 

 Bma irrina, Lychnuchus irvina, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 263. Synonym, lima jovina, 



Swinhoe, Ann . Mag. Nat. Hist. 1905, p. 613. Habitat, E. Celebes. 



