ISMENEIN^. 229 



Female. Like the male above and beneath, but the ochreous-orange sub-costal 

 stripe is narrower and shorter. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 2y g to 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Naga and Chin Hills. 



Distribution. — The types are recorded as from N.E. Bengal, we have not been 

 able to find them ; we have many examples of both sexes from Sikkim and the Khasia 

 and Jaintia Hills, Elwes records it from the Naga Hills and Watson from the Chin Hills. 



Note. — After examining a long series in our collection and in theB. M., we cannot 

 ascertain any sufficient differences to separate the Sikkim from the Assam examples as 

 Friihstorfer has done. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Ismene oedipodea, Swainson, Zool. 111. i. p. 116, p. xvi. (1820). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 32. 

 Synonym : Ismene consobrina, Plotz. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 5.5 (1884), unpublished plate No. 1187.* 

 Habitat, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Philippines. 



Ismene excellens, Hopffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 187-1, p. 39. Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1878, p. 40. Plotz, 

 unpublished plate No. 1151. Habitat, Celebes. 



Ismene phul. Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 219. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 60. Synonym: 

 Ismene tola, Plotz. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 66. Habitat, Philippines, 



Ismene oedipus, Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 292. Habitat, Sula Island and Borneo. 



Ismene lusca,^ Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1907, p. 434, J; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 33, 

 pi. 3, fig. 4, 9 (plate numbered II. by mistake). Habitat, Maros, S. Celebes. 



Genus Sartora, nov. Male. Forewing, vein 3 emitted one-fourth before lower end of cell, 2 at one- 

 fifth from the base, the lower margin of the cell curved upwards ; an inwardly oblique, thick 

 streak of adpressed scales in the disk, extending from below vein 3 to the sub-median vein. 

 Hindwing, vein 3 from one-fourth before lower end of cell ; hind tibiae much swollen, with the 

 usual tuft of hairs and two pairs of spurs. Type, Ismene tonis, de Niceville. 



Sartora ionis, Ismene ionis, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 403,, pi. Q, fig. 61,^. 

 Habitat, Java, Sambawa. 



Sartora nestor, Ismene nestor, Moschler, Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien. xlviii. p. 208 (1878). Swinhoe (part), 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 32. Synonym, Ismene firdusi, Plotz, unpublished plate. No. 1153. 

 Habitat, Java. 



Genus Zehala, nov. Male. Forewing, vein 3 from a little beyond the lower middle of cell, 2 from one- 

 fourth from base ; five streaks of androconia on the lower middle of the wing, one on the sub-median 

 vein, one on its second branch, a pair on the first branch, and a pair on the sub-median 

 vein ; hind tibise very slightly swollen, covered with hairs, two pairs of spurs, and with the usual 

 tuft of hairs. Type, Ismene striata, Hewitson. 



Zehala striata, Ismene striata, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. Ismene, pi. i. figs. 6, 7 (1867). Synonym, 

 Ismene septentrionis, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. p. 525, pi. 73, fig. 3 (1867). Habitat, 

 Shanghai, Siao-low, China. 



* Coloured copies by Mr. Horace Knight of all Plotz's figures of Indo-Malayan Hesperidae are in our 

 possession. 



■j" Put into the Genus Ismene provisionally, until a male is discovered. 



