238 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



forming the shape of a tuning-fork, the outer margin of the wing straighter, the wing 

 somewhat produced anally. Antennae, palpi and general structure as in Pithauria. 

 Type, Pithnurioj^sis aitchesoni, Wood-Mason and de Niceville. 



PITHAURIOPSIS MARCENA. 

 Plate 811, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ , So, ? . 



Hesperia marsena, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 498; id. Exot. Butt. pi. -5, figs. 51, .52, $ 



(1873j. 

 Baoris marsena, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 106. 



Halpe marsena, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc Bengal, 189.5, p. 547. 

 Pitliatiria marsena, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 19. 



Hesperia ornata, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. p. 515, pi. 72, fig. G, 5 (1867). 

 Parnara ornata, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 382, pi. 18, figs. 7, 



7a, (J ( 9 ea; errore). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 38 (1891). 

 Halpe ornata, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 268. 

 PitJiauriopsis aitchesoni, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, .Jouru. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 387, 



pi. 1-5, fig. 4, ^. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 28 (1891). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 



1895, p. 435. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 544. 

 Pithauria aitchesoni, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 119. Elwes and Edwards, I.e. p. 238. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bronzy-brown. Foreiritig with grey hairs at the ba^e, 

 forming four short streaks, one on the costa, another in the cell, one on the sub-median, 

 and the fourth, the longest of all, along the hinder margin, spots ochreous-white ; two 

 oblong spots in the cell, well separated one above the other, the upper one the 

 smaller, placed a little oljliquely outwards {in Pitliauria these spots are always obliquely 

 inwards) above the base of vein 2, two small sub-apical spots, the lower the larger, 

 an oval spot in each of the median interspaces in a strongly oblique inward line, the 

 lower the larger, the discal stigma centred with white. Hindwing with all but the costa 

 and outer margin covered with long, grey hairs. Underside reddish -brown. Forewing 

 with the lower portion blackish, the spots as above, the two cell spots sometimes 

 touching each other, indications of a sub-marginal series of yellowish dots from the 

 .apex to the middle of the wing. Huidrclng with a white sub-costal smear (not always 

 present), and an indistinct yellowish streak on the abdominal margin ; a discal series 

 of small yellowish- white spots, one in the sub-costal interspace and two in the median 

 interspaces, and indications of a series of sub-marginal spots, not always present. Cilia 

 of both wings with blackish base, with ochreous-cinereous tips. Antennpe black, the 

 club whitish beneath, the tips orange ; palpi, head and body above and below and the 

 legs concolorous with the wings ; palpi beneath and the pectus yellowish-white. 



Female. Upperside like the male, paler and browner in colour, without the 



