232 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWAEDS : 



of both sexes from Distant's collection, with the label " Malacca, Biggs." The males are 

 marked in his writing maculatus, the female calathus. A male from Palo Laut agrees 

 with these males. We have also three males and four females of parthenope, Weym., 

 from the typical locality Nias, which vary considerably inter se in the very characters by 

 which alone they can be separated from the Malacca and Bornean specimens, namely, 

 the size and number of the spots on the fore wing in the male, and in the female by 

 the amount of white on the apex of the hind wing below, which is present in both 

 sexes of calathus, but in some females only of parthenope. The Javan form figured by 

 de Niceville as parthenope 6 has only one spot in the cell, whilst two of our three 

 males have two. The genitalia of the two forms are identical. 



! LOTONGUS ZEUS. 

 Zela zeus, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 388, pi. Q. fig. 57, <$ . 



We give a description of this species, which had been prepared before Mr. de Nice- 

 ville's paper appeared. 



8 . Upperside dark brown : fore wing with four hyaline whitish-yellow spots — one, 

 about twice as high as wide, near the middle of cell 2, one, subquadrate, near the 

 basal fourth of cell 3, one, oblong, near the base of cell 6, and one, longer than wide, 

 in the cell, next the base of vein 3 ; sex-mark linear, blackish, erect from the middle of 

 vein 1 a to the basal third of vein 2, thence oblique to near the base of vein 3 : hind 

 wing with the basal two-thirds thickly clothed with long fuliginous hairs. Underside 

 brown : hind wing and basal two-thirds of the costal region of fore wing bright yellow- 

 brown, a small feeble yellow spot next the transverse vein of the hind wing. Fringes 

 of the fore wing whitish grey ; of the hind wing bright yellow in the tornal region, 

 passing gradually into whitish grey towards the apex ; short scales dark on both wings 

 except on the brightest of the yellow part. Antennas brown ; club slender, paler 

 beneath ; the apiculus equal in length to one-half of the clavate portion. Vein 2 of 

 fore wing arising near the basal third of the cell. Body and legs concolorous with the 

 upperside. 



Expanse 39-47 mm. 



Hab. Pulo Laut (Doherty) ; Mindoro {coll. Semper) ; Khasia hills (fide Swinhoe). 



This species is the type of Mr. de Niceville's genus Zela. A male specimen from 

 the Khasia hills, ex coll. Swinhoe, of which we have compared the genitalia, is larger 

 than specimens from Pulo Laut, expanding 47 mm., and the pale spots on the fore 

 wing are reduced in size, that proper to cell 6 being absent. Type in coll. Elwes. 



! LOTONGUS ZENON. 

 Zampa senon, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 391, pi. Q.. fig. 58, J. 



This species, of which the type is in coll. Elwes, is the type of Mr. de Niceville's 

 genus Zampa. 



