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and the fourth placed quincuncially between the second and third and rather 

 smaller than the former of these. 



Posterior wings immaculate. 



Wings below paler, darkest around the spots in the anterior ones, all 

 also suffused with vinaceous. 



Anterior ones with the sutural area ashy and a large patch in the 

 internomedian area whiter and showing through on the upperside as a some- 

 what diffused whitish speck. 



Posterior wings clothed with ashy scales and bearing a cellular round- 

 ish spot darker than the ground-colour, around which spot are semicircularly 

 arranged three or four similar ones, as in H. divodasa. 



Cilia dusky-ashy. 



Length of anterior wing -56 ; whence expanse = 123 inches. 



Closely allied to H. divodasa, Moore. 



The " three minute brown spots before the apex" of the anterior 

 wings mentioned by Hewitson are not discernible in our two specimens ; 

 they correspond to the dark brown marks which bound the apical dots on 

 both sides in some specimens of H. divodasa, and, consequently, represent 

 the apical semitransparent dots of that species. 



125. Hesperia istarooa. 



II. narooa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 687, pi. 45, fig. 4, $ £, from 

 Bombay and Ceylon. 



A male agreeing exactly with Moore's figure, but not quite so perfect- 

 ly with his description, five discal spots being described but only four 

 figured. 



Obs. This species is said by Mr. Moore to differ only in its larger 

 size from the H. contigua of Mabille, a species which we have failed 

 to trace in the literature. 



126. Hesperia acroletjca, n. sp. 



Telegonus acroleucus, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, August, 1881, p. 143. 



Hesperia hiraca, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. September 1881, p. 313, $. 

 $ . Wings above dark brown slightly suffused with vinous. 



Anterior wings tipped with ashy-white and with three large semitrans- 

 parent pale yellow quadrangular lustrous spots arranged as in T. thrax, 

 namely, one in the cell with its outer margin bifestooned and its inner 

 biscalloped, another larger and elongated below and partly under this 

 between the first and second median veinlets, and a third, the smallest of 

 the three, rhomboidal, between the second and third median veinlets, 

 and with the cilia dusky at the apex, but gradually becoming pale yellow 

 towards the inner angle. 



Posterior wings darker towards the outer margin with all the cilia 

 pale yellow. 



