180 MESSES. H. J. EL WES AND JAMES EDWARDS. 



! Suastus bipunctus. (Plate XVIII. fig. 14, 6 .) 

 Suastus bipunctus, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) v. p. 364 (1890). 

 Suastus aditus, Hampson, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, p. 365. 



Hab. Nilgiri hills (Hampson). 



! Suastus tripura. 



Tagiades tripura, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891 , p. 392, pi. G. fig. 39, ? . 

 Carystus albescens, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii. p. 51 (1893). 



Hab. Perak, Pulo Laut, Bali (Doherty) ; Java (Fruhstorfer). 



Suastus minuta. 



Tagiades minuta, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 343 (1877); id. Lep. Cey. i. p. 176, 

 pi. lxviii. figs. 4, 4a (1881) ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 96 (1891). 



Resembles S. tripura in general appearance, but has the hind wing above entirely- 

 brown. Hind wing below white, brown along the costa ; an ill-defined brown spot 

 near the apical third of cell 1 b, an indication of a smaller one in cell 2, and another 

 next the transverse vein. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Suastus robsonii. 

 Suastus robsonii, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 372, pi. Q. fig. 50, 3 . 



Nearest to S. minuta. Hind wing below " (as seen under a strong magnifying- 

 glass) overlaid throughout with dull ochreous scales ; an elongated minute black 

 spot at the end of the cell." Described from a single example taken at Masuri, 

 W. Himalayas, 12th July, 1892. 



Suastus fhiditia. 



Hesperia phiditia, Hewitson, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. ser. 3, vol. ii. p. 501 (1866). 

 Suastus phiditia, de Niceville & Martin, Jour. As. Soc. Beug. 1895, p. 535. 



This species, which we have not seen, has one large vitreous spot on the hind wing 

 above, and the hind wing below " ochreous, crossed at the middle by a band of four 

 brown spots" (rufo-ochraceis, fascia fused). 



Hab. Sumatra (fide Hewitson). 



Iambrix. 



Iambrix, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 76, pi. iii. fig. 25. Type salsala, Moore. 



A genus established by Watson for the Nisoniades salsala of Moore and its 

 immediate allies. It differs from Suastus in facies and in the fact that vein 3 of the 

 fore wing arises immediately before the end of the cell. The males of the three 



