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white spots, tlie outer spots large and centred with brown spots which become darker 

 and larger hindwards, especially those in interspaces 2 and 3 ; terminal line of both 

 wings black. Underside white without any brown suffusion, markings disposed as in the 

 male, but much more prominent on account of the whiteness of the ground colour. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, ? 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Burma, Mergui, Siam. 



Distribution. — The type (a male) came from Tounghoo, Burma, taken in June ; 

 there is a male in the B. M. from Siam, and a female from Contor Island, Mergui. 



ALLIED CHINESE, JAPANESE AND BORNEAN SPECIES. 



Niphanda fusca, Thecla fusca, Bremer and Grey, Schmett. N. China, p. 9 (1853). Leech, Butt, of 



China, etc. ii. p. 340, pi. 31, fig. 17, $ , var. (1893). Habitat, Japan, Corea. 

 Nijjhanda tessellata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 526. Lycsenesthes iessellata, Distant, Rhop. 



Malayana, p. 458, pi. 42, fig. 13, ^ , and pi. 44, fig. 21, 5 (1886). Synonym, Lycsenesthes sethiops, 



Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 253. Habitat, Malayana. 

 Nijjlianda lasurea, Thecla fusca, var. lasurea, Graeser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 74. Habitat, Central 



China. 

 Nqjhanda reta, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 576, pi. 32, fig. 12, ^ . Habitat, Kina Balu, 



Borneo. 



Genus LYC^NESTHES. 



Lycsenesthes, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 773. Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 343. Moore, 

 Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 87 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 232 (1884). Trimen, South Afr. 

 Butt. ii. p. 93 (1887). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 127 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of 

 Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 372 (1907). 



Eyes hairy. Forewing. Cell long, more than half the length of the wing ; vein 

 7 from before upper end of cell, veins 1 and 2 very wide apart at base, 2 and 3 emitted 

 from apical fourth of median vein, 4 from lower end of cell, 6 from upper end, 8 absent, 

 9 from apical half of 7, 10 and 11 free, 12 ends on costa before end of cell ; veins 1 

 and 12 and the median and sub-median veins thickened towards base ; costa slightly 

 arched, apex sub-acute, outer margin convex, hinder angle almost a right angle, hinder 

 margin straight. Ilindicing with the cell about half as long as the wing ; middle and 

 lower discocellulars concave and sloping obliquely outwards ; veins la, 1, median and 

 sub-costal veins and vein 8 all distinctly thickened towards base ; 3 and 4 arise 

 close together from lower end of cell, 8 strongly arched at basal third and extended 

 parallel and very close to the costal margin up to the apex of the wing, wing broad, 

 costa arched, apex and hinder angle well marked, outer margin convex, short projections 

 at the end of veins 1 to 3 composed of slight fascicles of long hair-like scales or cilia ; 

 hinder margin very slightly convex. Antennae more than half the length of the costa 



