234 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



vein 2 ; sub-median and internal veins nearly straight. Costa strongly arclied at its 

 Ijase, then slightly curved to the apex, the apex and outer margin evenly rounded, 

 very slightly excavated at the end of vein 2, giving the anal angle a somewhat lobed- 

 like appearance, abdominal margin slightly convex, heavily fringed with long hair-like 

 scales. Antennae more than half the length of the costa of forewing, the club some- 

 what stout, its tip evenly curved ; palpi with the second joint upturned in front of 

 the face, very densely scaled, the third joint also scaled, somewhat porrect, thorax 

 robust, legs densely hairy, hind tibite with two pairs of spurs, quite hidden by 

 the hairs. 



Type, Hesperia cyrina, Hewitson. 



CRETEUS CYRINA. 



Plate 810, tigs. 3, $ , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ . 



Hesperia cyrina, Hewitson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, p. 450. Watson, Hesp. lud. p. 160 (1891). 

 Creteus cyrina, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 386. Watson, id. p. 435. Elwes 



and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 233. 

 Parnara parca, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, p. 174, pi. B, fig. 10, 9- Watson, 



Hesp. Ind. p. 49 (1891). 

 Caltoris parca, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 324. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark purple-brown, nearly purple-black, spots 

 pure white. Forewing with two small spots, one above the other inside the cell near 

 its end, three smaller sub-apical spots, the upper one linear, a small round spot 

 immediately below it, and a dot almost level with it outwards ; a spot in the middle 

 of the second median interspace, a much larger one, its outer side excavated, towards 

 the base of the first median interspace, a spot in the middle of the interuo-median 

 interspace on the sub-median vein, these three spots in an inwardly oblique line with 

 each other. Ilindwing with a spot in the cell, another above it, and three discal spots, 

 the upper one in interspace 6, well separated from the lower two, which are in the 

 median interspaces, rather close together, all these spots small and of equal size. Cilia 

 of both wings black, orange on the lower half of the hindwing. Underside coloured 

 like the upperside, the markings similar, but there are two extra equal-sized spots on 

 the hindwing near the abdominal margin, one above the other and well sejjarated from 

 each other, and the lower third of both wings has a narrow whitish smear on the outer 

 margin, the corresponding cilia on the forewing being whitish and on the hindwing 

 ochreous-white ; palpi, head and body above and below purple-black, the dense hairs 

 on the legs very dark purple-black, the tarsi ochreous, the sides of the abdomen 

 ochreous-grey finely banded with black, the tip orange. 



Female like the male, but more brown in colour, all the white spots much larger, 

 the orange portion of the cilia deeper. 



