88 LEPIDOPTERA IKDICA. 



and lower medians ; an upper submarginal series of five spots curving before the 

 apex, of which, the upper is on the costal border, and a lower marginal row of smaller 

 spots; a short slender sexual maiVi; between the lower median and submedian vein. 

 Hindwing with very faint traces of a submarginal and marginal row of small pale 

 brown spots. Underside dark olivaceous-brown. Foreivivg with a bluish-white 

 costal spot, a spot at lower end of the cell, one between the upper and middle median 

 veinlets, and a larger elongated white spot between the middle and lower medians, 

 the sexual streak and posterior margin being brownish-white ; submarginal and mar- 

 ginal spots as above. Hiudwing with a minute bluish-white spot within end of the 

 cell, and a discal series of spots, a marginal row of small white spots, and a sub- 

 marginal lower series of three or four spots. Body black; head, thorax, palpi, and 

 abdomen beneath white spotted, legs black. Female : Unknown. 



Expanse, c? 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



This species is known only from Ceylon, where it is evidently very rare. I am 

 acquainted only with a single male, in the collection of the British Museum, which 

 was taken at Trincomalee, on the N.E. side of the island, and from which our illus- 

 tration on Plate 27 was taken. 



CRASTIA ESPERI (Plate 27, fig. 2, 2a, h, $ q). 



Eujiloea Esperi,'Felder,\eih. Zool. Bot. Gesellscli. xii. p. 482 (1862), ?. Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond. 1877, p. 582. Wood-Mason and De NicevUIe, Jouru. As. Soc. Beng. 1881, p. 227. Mar- 

 shall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 83 (1882). 



Crastia Esperi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 278. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark purplish violaceous-brown. Forewivg with 

 a very small white costal spot above end of the cell, one within lower end of the cell, 

 three discal spots, the upper one being slender, the lower small and both sometimes 

 obsolescent, the middle spot large and rounded ; a submarginal row of six or seven, 

 of which the two upper are slender, the next large and oval, the others decreasing in 

 size, and a marginal row of very small spots; a short ill-defined sexual mark between 

 the lower median and submedian vein, which, when first looked at under the 

 " binocular," has the ordinary reticulated appearance, but is composed of well- 

 separated oval scales which have either bidentate or tridentate tips. Hindwing 

 with a submarginal and a marginal row of small white spots ; the anterior border 

 broadly glossy cinereous, composed of widely separated narrow round-tipt scales. 

 Underside paler, dark olivescent-brown. Both wings with the two marginal rows of 

 white spots as above. loreiving also with the small costal white spot, and generally 

 five discal spots, the lowest being large, and a large generally lunate cell spot ; a 

 broad sexual mark between the lower median and submedian, composed of broad 



