1883.] L. de Niceville — On new and little-knoion Rhopalocera. 87 



This is a fairly common species at low elevations below Darjiling ; 

 there are numerous specimens of both sexes in Mr. MoUer's collection.. 



32. Plesioneuea agni, n. sp. (Plate X, fig. 4, ? .) 



Hab. Sikkim. 



Expanse : <J , 1*6 ; $, 1-8 inches. 



Desckiption. Male. Uppeeside dark brown, but so thickly cover- 

 ed with large fulvous overlying scales as to leave the ground-colour visible 

 only on the outer margin, a streak within the apical spots, and narrowly 

 round all the transparent white spots. Foreiving with a large quadrate 

 spot filling the end of the cell, a small spot above it, a rather larger one at 

 the base of the second median interspace, a large one nearly equal in size 

 to the spot in the cell at the base of the first median interspace, and two 

 small rounded spots in the submedian interspace placed obliquely, the upper 

 one below the outer lower angle of the spot above ; three or four small sub- 

 apical spots, the upper one rather larger than the rest, the second out of line, 

 being placed nearer the base of the wing : — all these spots lustrous semi- 

 transparent white. Cilia dark brown, with a pale spot at the apex and 

 another larger one on the submedian interspace. Hindunng with a black 

 spot at the end of the cell (sometimes obsolete), and a curved series of 

 eight similar spots, the two upper ones round, the others oblong and placed 

 in pairs, (the two lowest spots — as in the specimen figured — sometimes 

 obsolete). Cilia dark brown, paler towards the apex. Undeeside pale 

 brown. Forcwing with the spots as above, but with a pale fulvous sub- 

 marginal curved fascia. Hindwing as above but paler fulvous, the spots 

 more prominent. Female a little paler than the male, the spots somewhat 

 larger. Body fulvous, antennce black above, paler below. 



Nearest to P. cliaw.unda, Moore, which also occurs in Sikkim but 

 conspicuously differing from that species in having the hindwing marked 

 with black spots above and below, and the cilia not alternately brown and 

 white as in that species. 



I have seen two pairs only of this species, they are similarly marked • 

 and were all taken at low elevations in Sikkim. 



33. Plesioneuea ambaeeesa. (Plate X, fig. 9, 2.) 

 P. amlareesa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 788. 

 Hab. Manbhum, Bengal {Moore) ; Akrain, Satpuras ; Coonoor, 

 Nilgiris. 



This is a rare species, I have only seen two specimens ; a female from 

 Akrain, Satpuras, taken by Mr. J Davidson, C. S., is figured ; the other 

 taken by Mr. Alfred Lindsay at Coonoor in the Nilgiris. 



