PLASTINGIINM 211 



Expanse of wings, $ ly^, ? 1^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam, Burma, Sumatra, Philippines. 



Distribution. — The type, a female in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, came from 

 Sibsaghor in Upper Assam. We have both sexes from the Khasia and Jaintia Hills, 

 from which our figures and description are taken ; Adamson records it from Amherst, 

 Burma ; Elwes from Eastern Pegu, and Lawas, N. Borneo ; Semper from E. Mindanao, 

 Philippines ; it is near but undoubtedly distinct from P. tessellata, Hewitson = eulepis, 

 Felder, from the Celebes, the types of which we have carefully examined. 



PLASTINGIA LATOIA. 

 Plate 806, figs. 1, <J , la, ? , lb, <J . 



Hesperia latoia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 34 (1868) ; id. Exot. Butt. v. Hasp. pi. vi. figs. 62, 63 



(1873). 

 Plasliiu/ia latoia, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. .53. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 227, pi. 24, fig. 53 (genitalia). Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 13. 

 Plastingia callineura, Watson (part), Hesp. Ind. p. 113 (1891); id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 118. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark chocolate-brown. Forewing with a dark orange 

 sub-costal streak from the base ending in a point at one-third before the apex, with a 

 small orange spot below its end, all the other markings orange-ochreous ; two elongated 

 sub-apical spots, au inwardly oblique straight band of five elongated spots, com- 

 mencing with a small one in interspace 5, somewhat near the outer margin, the next 

 spot in interspace 4 is much larger, the rest increasing in size hindwards, the spot in 

 interspace 2 long and sub-quadrate, filling more than half the interspace, all the above 

 semi-hyaline ; the lowest sjjot is in the interno-median interspace and is opaque and 

 darker orange-ochreous than the others, and narrows basally. Hindwing with a short 

 discal, orange-ochreous band, its inner side connected with a similarly coloured streak 

 from the base of the wing, and there is another orange-ochreous streak along the inner 

 side of the abdominal fold. Cilia of both wings orancje. Undei'side bright orange. 

 Forewing with a pale ochreous patch filling the inner two-thirds of the interno-median 

 interspace ; costal line black, a black streak along the sub-costal vein, a tliicker black 

 streak, interrupted at its middle along the median vein, a submarginal series of 

 elongated blackish sj)ots with square ends, the lower ones larger than the others, the 

 series ending in a suftused black patch at the hinder angle, the black colour running 

 up the hinder margin. Hindwing with black streaks, one in the cell, a discal series of 

 short streaks, a thick streak from the base along each side of the abdominal fold 

 ending in a black patch at the anal angle. Antennae black, its tip orange ; palpi above 

 with orange and black hairs, thorax with ochreous-grey sette, abdomen black with 

 orange segmental bands ; on the underside the palpi are ochreous-grey, the thorax 



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