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with a recurvecl terminal crook, tip acuminate, as stated by Watson, whereas the 

 antennae of Pedestes, as also stated by Watson, are short, club robust, arcuate with no 

 distinct terminal crook, tip acuminate. 



PLASTINGIA PUGNANS. 



Plate 807, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Pnrnara jnu/nans, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 384, pi. G, fig. 30, ? . Elwes and 

 Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 284. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-brown, spots ochreous-white. Forcicing with 

 two linear spots well separated from each other at the end of the cell, the lower the 

 longer, three sub-apical small spots, the lowest the largest ; a large, elongate, sub- 

 ([uadrate spot in the first median interspace, its upper inner half only separated from 

 the lower cell spot by the median vein, its outer upper end nearly touching two 

 elongated spots at the bases of interspaces 3 and 4, these four .spots being close 

 together and only divided from each other by the veins, a small dot between the 

 lower sub-apical .spot and the uppermost discal spot. 



Hindiving without markings, the lower half of the wing covered with long, dull 

 ochreous hairs. Cilia of both wings brown. Underside paler and duller in colour, 

 markings similar, the hindwing without the ochreous hairs. Antennae black, dull 

 ochreous-red beneath ; palpi with black and white hairs ; head and body concolorous 

 with the wings, thorax beneath with some grey and white hairs, the anal half of the 

 abdomen with some whitish bands on the underside, legs ochreous-brown. 



Female like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly\ to l| inches. 



Habitat. — Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Burma. 



DiSTRiBTJTiOK. — The types in the Indian ]\Iuseum, Calcutta, are from Borneo ; de 

 Niceville also records it from Nias and Sumatra ; it is in our collection from Brunei, 

 Borneo, and from the Ataran Valley, Burma ; Elwes records it also from Pulo Laut. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Plastingia tessellala, Hesperia tessellata, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 494. Synonym, 



Hesperia eulepis, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. p. -517, pi. 72, fig. 12, ? (^ ex errore) (1867). 



Habitat, Celebes. 

 Plastingia flavescens, Hesperia flavescens, Felder, I.e. p. 517, pi. 72, figs. 7, (J , 8, 9, 9 (1867). 



Plastingia flavescens, de Niceville and Martin, I.e. p. 541. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Plastingia liburnia, Hesperia liburnia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 33 (1868); id. Exot. Butt. v. 



Hesp. pi. 6, figs. 58, 59 (1873). Plastingia liburnia, Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 313 (1892). 



Habitat, Philippines. 

 Plastingia helena, Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 190, pi. 64, tig. 3 (1874). Habitat, Borneo. 



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