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of tlie disc, all bordered by the macular fascia. Cilia of forewing edged with white, 

 cilia of Mndwing entirely white. Underside ; forewing as above and sparsely grey- 

 speckled : hindwing thickly covered with greyish-white, leaving only the costal 

 border and discal macular fascia brown. 



Expanse, $ \^, ? \-^ inch. 



Differs from 8. Dasahara in the hindwing being more prominently white and 

 the cilia also being entirely white. 



"Kandy" (Tfaf^e). 



" Scarce and rather local. Found rarely by me except in Lagalla. Generally 

 May or June " (Machwood). 



Genus UDASPES. 



Allied to Plesioneura : forewing less triangular, exterior margin more convex, 

 posterior margin longer ; cell narrow at end ; discocellulars extending very obliquely 

 inward; lower median branch at less than two-thirds before end of the cell: hind- 

 wing very broadly oval, extremely convex externally ; abdominal margin short ; cell 

 much shorter, second subcostal nearer end of the cell ; upper and middle medians 

 both emitted from exti^eme end of the cell, lower median at less than one-third before 

 the end. Body short; antennal club shorter, and thicker at tip. 



Type, TJ. Folus. 



XJDASPES FOLTIS (Plate 68, Fig. 3, 3a). 



Papilio Folus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 74, f. 7 (1779). 



Tagiades Folus, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 283. 



Hesperia Folus, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 252, pi. 7, fig. 7, la. 



Hesperia Cicero, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 338 (1793). 



Upperside dark sepia-brown : forewing with three connected semi-transparent 

 yellowish-white spots before the apex, two below them nearer the outer margin, a 

 smaller spot between the upper and middle median veins, two larger connected spots 

 on the disc, and a large spot within end of the cell : hindwing with a large medial 

 discal semi-transparent yellowish- white sinuous-bordered patch. Cilia alternated with 

 white. Underside : forewing as above : hindwing with the white patch extending 

 medially to base of the wing, and traversed by a dark brown sinuous streak below 

 end of the cell ; outer margin of the wing suffused with greyish-white. Body, palpi, 

 and legs beneath greyish- white. 



Expanse 1\ to If inch. 



Genus PLESIONEURA. 



Plesioneura, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monat. vi. p. 29 (1862). 

 Forewing triangular, apex pointed; exterior margin short, slightly oblique and 

 convex, posterior margin long ; cell extending two-thirds the wing ; first, second, 

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