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The curvature of the dorsum of the fore wing in the male is correlated to the supra- 

 alar tuft on the hind wing, and is not peculiar to this species. Cf. Parnara oceia, a . 

 Hab. Pulo Laut (Doherty). 



! LOTONGUS AVESTA. 



Hesperia avesta, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 30 (1868). 



Lotongus avesta, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 383, pi. Q. fig. 56, $ . 



I'amphila tamiata, Stgr. MSS. 



Hab. Kina Balu, Borneo (Waterstr idt) ; Pulo Laut (Doherty). 

 ! Lotongus mytheca. 



Hesperia mytheca, Hewitson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xix. p. 81 (1877J. 

 Zea mytheca, Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 377, pi. xxxv. fig. 7 (1886). 



Hab. Perak (Doherty). 

 ! Lotongus sarala. 



Parnara sarala, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1889, pi. B. fig. 6, $ ; Watson, Hesp. 

 Ind. p. 48. 



Hab. Khasia hills (Hamilton). 



Both sexes of this species, which do not differ, are in the Elwes collection. 



! Lotongus excellens. 



Proteides esccellens, Staudinger, Iris, ii. p. 141, pi. ii. fig. 6 (1889). 



Hah. Pulo Laut (Doherty) ; Palawan (Platen, fide Stgr.) ; Sumatra (in coll. Rothschild). 



Creteus. 



Creteus, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 385. Type cyrina, Hew. 



This is a genus erected by Mr. de Niceville for the Hesperia cyrina of Hewitson, a 

 species which is remarkable for the presence of hyaline spots on the hind wing, placed 

 as follows : — one in the cell next the transverse vein, one in the basal third of each of 

 cells 2 and 3, and one near the middle of each of cells 6 and 7. The hyaline spots on 

 both wings are apt to be reduced in size, and in a specimen from Borneo in which this 

 is the case the hyaline spot proper to cell 2 of the hind wing is wanting altogether. 

 The sex-mark on the fore wing above in the male consists of a streak of modified scales 

 occupying about the middle third of vein 2. 



! Creteus cyrina. 



Hesperia cyrina, Hewitson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 450 (1876) ; Watson, 

 Hesp. Ind. p. 160 (1891). 



