1893.] MR. E. Y. WATSOJSr ON THE HESPERIIJD.E. 95 



its greatest development in the islands of the iVrchipelago ; the 

 I)eculiar form of the anteunal club readily distinguishes it. 



Taractrocera nicevillei, sp. UOV. 



Above dark brown, spotted with yellow. Fore wing with a lunate 

 spot at end of cell ; a subapical spot divided into three by veins, a 

 spot below this and close to the outer margin divided into two, and 

 a triple spot extending from the upper median branch to as far as 

 the submedian parallel to the outer margin, but further removed 

 from it than the double spot above mentioned ; these three spots 

 form a sort of submarginal baud from the costa to the inner 

 margin, though not reaching either, the middle spot being much 

 nearer the margin than the other two. Hind wing : a lunatp spot 

 at end of cell, and a submarginal series of three spots, the first 

 small, the second out of line, being nearer the margin of the wing, 

 and the third double. 



Underside markings as above, the whole of the hind wing and 

 the apex and costa of the fore wing washed with yellow. Cilia above 

 and below pale yellow^ 



Expanse 24 millim. 



In the British Museum, from Bombay, 



This is the species which has been recorded from India by 

 Col. Swiuhoe as coi^as of Cramer. The true coras of Cramer is, 

 however, an American species and is the type of the genus Polites, 

 Scudder. 



Nearest allied to T. ceramas, Hew., fjom which it differs in the 

 much greater prominence of all the yellow markings. 



2. Genus Ampittia. 



Ampittia, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 1/1 (1881). 



Type, maro, Fabr. 



Antenuse short ; club moderate, straight, tip blunt. Palpi : second 

 joint densely clothed with laxly set scales ; third joint porrect, 

 conspicuous, slender, tip bluntly conical. Fore wing: inner margin 

 longer than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of 

 costa; vein 12 reaching costa well before the end of cell; middle 

 discocellular longer than lower one ; vein .5 slightly nearer to 4 than 

 to 6 ; vein 3 in the male of the type species well before the end of 

 cell, nearer to 2 than to 4 ; vein 3 in the female immediately before 

 the end of cell ; vein 2 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing ; 

 lower margin of cell curved upwards from base to vein 2, and angled 

 at vein 3. Hind wing evenly rounded ; vein 7 shortly before end 

 of cell, curving upwards from its origin, the upper margin of cell 

 curving downwards, the angle therefore being rounded like a tuning- 

 fork and not acute ; discocellulars very faint , vein o not traceable ; 

 vein 3 from end of cell ; vein 2 shortly before end of cell, con- 

 siderably more than twice as far from base of wing as from end of 

 cell. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 



Male iu the type species with a short glandular streak on the 



