PLASTINGIIN^. 1 1 5 



the inner margin of the wing from the base, and with two or three sub-apical con- 

 joined increasing spots, two lengthened spots at the end of the cell placed one above 

 the other, the upper one the smaller, a triangular spot towards the base of the second 

 median interspace, a much larger one towards the base of the first, all semi-transparent 

 yellowish-white. Hindwing with a chrome-yellow patch placed in the middle of the 

 disc just beyond the cell, and divided by the black nervules. Underside. Forewiny 

 black, the costa narrowly, the apex very widely, and a patch placed in the middle of 

 the sub-median interspace chrome-yellow ; the semi-transparent spots as above, five 

 rounded small black spots placed in an outwardly-angled sub-apical series. Hindwhiii 

 chrome-yellow, the margin increasingly to the anal angle, then decreasingly up tiie 

 abdominal margin black, a sub-basal spot, another at the end of the cell, a series of 

 eight spots placed round the cell, all black. Antennae black, the club yellow ; thorax 

 and base of abdomen above clothed with long; greenish-oehreous hairs, the rest of 

 the abdomen black ringed with yellow, the thorax and legs beneath chrome-yellow, 

 (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, $ 1-^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



We have not seen this species, the type being in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; 

 we give copies of de Niceville's figure ; it is not in the B. M. 



PLASTINGIA CORISSA. 



Plate 806, figs. 5, (J , 5a, 9 , 5b, ? . 



Hesperia corissa, Hewitson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, p. 455. 



Plastingia corissa, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 229. Swinhoe, Tran.s. Ent. Soc. 



1908, p. 28. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 16. 

 Plastingia drancus, Pliitz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 149 (1884) ; unpublished plate, No. 726. 

 Isoteinon indrasana, Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 441, pi. 20, fig. 5, 9 . 



Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 86 (1891). 

 Zographetus indrasana, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown, with an ochroous tint. Forewing with some 

 ochreous setse at the base ; two sub-apical spots, the upper one small, a round spot 

 at the lower end of the cell, a large sub-quadrate spot close below it, near the base of 

 the first median interspace, a much smaller similar spot, close to its upper outer end, 

 in the middle of the second median interspace, all these spots yellowish-white and 

 semi-hyaline, a long spear-shaped dark ochreous streak before the middle of the 

 interno-median interspace on the sub-median vein. Hindwing with the basal and 

 lower portions covered with long ochreous hairs ; a dark ochreous patch composed i )f 

 two or three conjoined streaks outside the cell end and at the base of the second 



