210 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



prominent, curling round upwards, second joint densely scaled, third joint minute, 

 obtusely conical ; hind tibise slightly fringed at the side and with two pairs of spurs. 

 Type, IIesj)eria (?) tessellata, Hewitson. 



PLASTINGIA NAGA. 



Plate 805, figs. 3, (J , 3a, 9 , 3b, ? . 



Hesperia (?) naga, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 89, pi. 10, fig. 2, 9 • 



Plaslingia naga, Watson, Heap. Ind. p. 11.5 (1891). Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 314 (1892). 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1897, p. 229. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 15. 

 Plastingia tessellata, Watson (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 118. 

 Plastingia tessellata, Adamson (nee Hewitson), Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, 



p. 144. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Forewing with a dull yellow narrow 

 sub-costal streak from the base to near end of cell ; another similar streak immediately 

 above the hinder margin, and a very fine, indistinct short streak in the middle between 

 them ; an ochreous-white semi-hyaline spot at the end of the cell, a larger spot in the 

 first median interspace below the base of vein 3, a somewhat smaller spot outside, near 

 the ba.se of the second median interspace, the three spots placed in a triangular form, a 

 sub-apical small spot well away from the costa in a line with the cell spot. Hindwing 

 with an elongated streak of dull yellow hairs through the cell, more or less forked at its 

 end, and two similar streaks near the abdominal margin. Cilia brown, touched with 

 cinereous in parts on the hindwing. Underside. Forewing blackish-brown, but paler 

 than on the upperside, the ochreous-white semi-hyaline spots as above, a narrow white 

 streak immediately below the costa, for half its length from the base, a whorl of short 

 white sub-apical streaks divided into two parts by the sub-apical ochreous-white semi- 

 hyaline spot, and a series of similar white streaks close to the outer margin, decreasing 

 in length hindwards and not reaching the hinder angle. Cilia white, alternated with 

 blackish-brown opposite the vein-ends. Hindwing black, the entire surface, to the 

 sub-median vein covered with short white streaks in the interspaces, a white streak 

 down the sub-median vein and one or two white marks in the abdominal fold. Cilia 

 white basally, cinereous outwardly. Antennae blackish-brown, the hinder half of the 

 club white beneath ; palpi, head and body above and below and the legs coucolorous 

 with the wings ; head with some white marks, thorax with dull yellow hairs, abdomen 

 with whitish segmental bands ; palpi beneath and pectus white. 



Female like the male, but the ground colour of both sides somewhat paler, the 

 white sub-apical streaks and the marginal streaks on the underside of the forewing 

 generally duller, the white streaks on the hindwing broader, the white marks in the 

 abdominal fold enlarged into a prominent streak. 



