194 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



the forewincr very indistinct or wanting, sex mark on the forewing a small inconspicuous 

 fold of raised scales in cell lA, next vein 1a near the middle. Underside forewing 

 umber-brown, the apical and costal regions similar to the hindwing, a small pale spot 

 near the upper distal angle of the cell, the post-medial series of pale spots represented 

 by about six spots, which become gradually fainter in their course from cells 8-3, 

 a pale anteciliary line, hindwing ochreous-brown by reason of a close sprinkling of 

 yellow scales on the umber-brown ground, tlie post-medial and sub-terminal series of 

 pale spots very indistinct or wanting, a pale anteciliary line. Fringes greyish-white, 

 the short scales grey -brown. Antennae above blackish, minutely spotted with 

 yellowish, beneath greyish-yellow, the shaft spotted with black. Second joint of 

 palpi clothed with yellow and black hairs intermixed. Body above concolorous with 

 the wings, beneath with greyish-yellow pubescence. Legs with greyish-yellow scaling. 

 Teo-umen (seen from above) with a small rounded projection near the apex on each 

 side, beyond which it is produced in a ])luntly rounded triangle. 



Female differs from the male in wanting the sex mark and in having the pale 

 spots proper to the underside more strongly developed, and consequently the post- 

 median series appears faintly in the costal portion of the upperside of the forewing. 



Expanse of wings, 21-21^ mm. 



Habitat. — Palui Hills, Peermaad, Travancore. Described from four males and 

 one female. Of the species known to us this comes nearest to A. jhora, de Niceville, 

 from which, however, it differs in the form of the tegumen as well as in the spotting 

 of the wings (Elwes and Edwards). We have not seen this species, we therefore give 

 Elwes and Edwards' description and copies of their figure. 



INDO-MALAYAN, JAPANESE AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Mromachis inachig, Pyrgus inachus, Menetries, Bull. Acad. Petr. xvii. p. 217 (18-59). Pryer, Rhop. 



Niphon, p. 35, pi. 10, fig. 20 (1889). Habitat, Japan, "\V. China, Amurland. 

 ^romaclms catocijaneus, Pamphila catocyanea, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. Iv. iEroniachus 



catocyanea, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 618 (1893). Habitat, Thibet. 

 Mromaclms i)U-eus, Leech, I.e. p. 618, pi. 41, fig. 16, ^ (1893). Habitat, Moupin, E. Thibet. 

 ^romachus cMnensis, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 189. Habitat, W. China. 

 JEromaclius javanicus, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 191, pi. 19, fig. 24, ^ . Habitat, W. Java. 



Genus MACHACHUS, nov. 



Differs from the genus u^roniachus in having no secondary sexual character. 

 Forewing with vein 3 emitted quite close to lower end of cell, 2 from about one-third 

 before the end, their bases being well separated from each other, in vEromaclius vein 3 

 is emitted well before the end and the bases of veins 3 and 2 are close together. 

 Ilindiclng with the upper margin of the cell not bent downwards from the base of 



