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the club whitish beneath ; palpi, head and Ijody concolorous with tlie wiugs, clothed 

 with bronzy-green hairs on the upperside, the palpi beneath and the pectus with 

 white hairs. 



Female like the male, the spots on the forewing larger. 



Expanse of wings, ^ l-j% to l-^^, $ 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam, W. China. 



DiSTRiBUTiOK. — The type, a female from the Khasia Hills, is in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta ; we possess a male from the Khasia Hills, and there are both sexes 

 from the same locality in Coll. Elwes ; Leech records it from Omeishan, China ; 

 Friihstorfer from Tonkin. 



LOTONGUS AVESTA. 



Plate 808, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Hesperia avesta, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 30 (18G8). 



Lotowjus avesta, de Nictville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 383, pi. Q, tig. 56, 9 (<? ^^ errore). 



Watson, id. p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 233. Friihstorfer, Iris, 



1911, p. 17. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside shining hair-brown. Forewing with two discal, semi- 

 hyaline, ochreous-white, nearly round spots, one near the base of the second median 

 interspace, and the other a somewhat larger spot placed obliquely inwards in the 

 first median inter.space. Hind icing without markings. Cilia of both wings brown, 

 with greyish-white tips. Underside paler. Forewing with the two discal spots as on 

 the upperside, a large bright ochreous patch extending from the costa into the cell a 

 little before its end, the anal and hinder marginal areas suffused with white. Hindiving 

 with a somewhat broad, straight, ochreous band across the wing, from the costa beyond 

 its middle to the abdominal margin one-third fi-om the base, the band slightly 

 disjointed by the costal fold. Antennse dark brown, the upper half of the club 

 ochreous-white ; palpi, head and body above concolorous with the wings, ochreous- 

 white on the underside, legs ochreous. 



Female like the male, but the wings are more squarely built. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 1% inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — The type is from Sumatra ; Elwes records it from Kina Balu and 

 Pulo Laut, de Niceville from the Ataran Valley, Burma ; de Niceville's identification 

 was made with doubt, but his figure exactly resembles the species, it is a true Lotongus. 



