MATAPIN^. 171 



one-sixth before the eud ; outer margin eveulv rounded except between veins 3 and 1. 

 where it is slightly excised. Antennse more than half the length of eosta of forewing, 

 club somewhat thickened with a pointed rather long crook ; palpi with the second 

 joint densely scaled, third joint concealed; hind tibia3 with two pairs of spurs. Male 

 with an oblique, linear, glandular streak on the upperside of the forewing, extending 

 from vein 3 as far as vein 1. 



Type, Ilesjjeria aria, Moore. 



MATAPA ARIA. 



Plate 797, figs. 1, ^ , la, 9, lb, ^ , Ic, larra and pupa. 



Hesperia aria, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 254 (18.t7). 



Ismene aria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 186-5, p. 784; id. idem, 1878, p. 70.3. 



Matapa aria, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 164, pi. 66, figs. 1, la (1881). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal, 1885, p. 52. Wood-Mason and de Xiceville, id. 1886, p. 381. Distant, Rhop. 



Malayana, p. 378, pi. 35, fig. 8 (1886). Hampson, .Journ. As. Soe. Bengal, 1888, p. 365. 



Ehves, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 442. TTatson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 27. 



Davidson and Aitken, id. 1890, p. 372, pi. F, figs. 3, 3a (larva and pupa). Semper, Rhop. 



Philipp. p. 294 (1892). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 22 (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Xat. Hist. Soc. 1891, 



p. 54. Fergusson, id. p. 447. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 648. Swinlioe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



1893, p. 320. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 426. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S93, 



p. 85. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 181 (1894). J. J. Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



1895, p. 473. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 680. 



Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 41 (jaa-va and pupa). Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 209. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 599. Aitken 



and Comber, id. xv. 1903, p. 54. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, 



p. 143. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 100. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark chocolate-brown, without anv markings, the 

 glandular streak on the forewing straight, grey, edged inwardly with dark brown. 

 Cilia of both wings white, tinged with yellow hiudwards. Underside. Fureicbiy with 

 the middle portion from the base to the outer margin dark blackish-brown. IHndicinij 

 uniform ferruginous-brown. Antennae black, white beneath, with narrow black bands ; 

 eyes red ; head and body al)ove and below and the legs concolorous with the wings. 



Female like the male, but f)alei' and somewhat ochreous-browu. the underside 

 ferruginous-brown as in the male ; abdomen with an ochreous tip. 



Expanse of wings, ? 1^, ? 2 inches. 



Larva. — Head only a little higher than broad ; somewhat heart-shaped, but 

 rather depressed on the vertex, which is the narrowest part, it is thick in the direction 

 of the longitudinal axis of the larva, larger a good deal than segment 2, slightly 

 bi-lobed, reddish-vellow in colour. Body more or less cylindrical, though somewhat 

 depressed, being highest at the twelfth segment and also broadest. Anal segment 

 rounded at the end, slightly sloping : spiracles black ; colour of the body pure, opaijue 



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