1C8 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



ACERBAS ANTHEA. 



Plate 796, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Hesperla anlliea, Hewitson, Desc. Hesp. p. 29 (1868). 



Plesioneiiral antJiea, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 404, pi. 35, fig. 32, 9 (1886). 



Acerhas anthea, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 382. Watson, id. p. 429. 



de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 537. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. xii. 1899, p. 336. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 215. Fruhstorfer, 



Iris, 1910, p. 101. 

 Cobalus ciliata, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. Loud. 1877, p. 554. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish-browu, slightly paliug toward.s the base 

 iu both wings. Foreioing with five semi-hyaline white spots, two obliquely in the 

 disc, iu the median interspaces, the upper one a little the larger, and three small 

 sub-apical spots of equal size, in an outwardly oblique curve and well separated from 

 each other. Hindwing with a broad, short discal, white band, with the black veins 

 running through it. Cilia of both wings white. Underside slightly paler, the 

 markings as on the upperside, but the white discal band of the hindwing is somewhat 

 larger. 



Female like the male, but the white band on the upperside of the hindwing is 

 larger, and on the underside it crosses the whole wing. 



Expanse of wings, J ? 1-J inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Perak, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The type female is from Singapore ; there is a male in the B. M. 

 from Malacca ; de Niceville records it from Tenasserim, de Niceville and Martin from 

 Sumatra, Distant from Perak, and Elwes from Pulo Laut. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED GENERA AND SPECIES. 

 Acerhas duris, Carystus duris, Mabille, Comptes Rendus, Soc. Ent. Belg. iii. p. lix. (1883). Lottngus 



duris, Semper, Ehop. Philipp. p. 289, pi. 49, lig. 7, ? (1892). Acerbas duris, Elwes and 



Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 216. Habitat, Philippines, BLina Balu, Borneo. 

 Acerhas nitidifascia, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 216, pi. 20, fig. 9, ^ , and pi. 24, 



fig. 51 (genitalia). Habitat, Labuan, Borneo. 

 Acerhas tagiadoides, Acerbas anthea tagiadoides, Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 101. Habitat, Java. 

 Sabera caesina, Hesperia cjesina, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 491. Sabera ca;sina, Swinhoe, 



id. 1908, p. 31. Fruhstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Waigiou, Brunei, N. Borneo, N. Guinea. 



Genus HYAROTIS. 



Hyarotis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 174 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 397 (1886). Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 117 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 82; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 

 1895, p. 426. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 197. 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa before the end of cell; cell less than two-thirds 

 the length of the costa ; discocellulars inwardly oblique, the middle one the longer. 



