4: L. de Niceville — Batterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. [No. 1, 



blackish submarginal band as in the forewing ; a small oval deep black 

 spot at the anal angle, with a black cloud above it reaching to the 

 posterior ocellus ; an anteciliary black thread. Antennce black. Body 

 throughout ferruginous, 



Nearest to S. howqua, Westwood, var. suffusa, Leech,* from Western 

 China, differing in the forewing on the upperside in the pale apical area 

 being very much smaller, not extending into the cell as it does in 

 S. hotvqua, var. suffusa ; on the hindwing the hastate markings in S. sparta 

 are well formed, in JVIr. Leech's species they have lost all shape, having 

 coalesced into an almost solid black band. On the underside the ground- 

 colour in 8. howqua, var. suffusa is pale greenish, in S. sparta it is 

 ferruginous, but this may be only a sexual difference ; but in true 

 S. hoivqua and its named variety the outer discal line and the submar- 

 ginal band on both wings are half the distance apart that they are in 

 S. sparta ; and they have six and sometimes seven ocelli on the forewing, 

 while S. sparta has only five. 



Described from a single example purchased from a telegraph 

 signaller employed at Manipur. 



Subfamily Ntmphalin^. 



3. Herona pringondani, Fruhstorfer, Plate III, Figs. 5, (? ; 4, ? . 

 S. pringondani, Fruhstorfer, Eut. Nach., vol. xix, p. 314 (1893). 



Habitat : Java. 



Expanse : (f, 2-9 ; ? , 29 to 3-1 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings dull brown, slightly 

 tinged with ochreous. Foreioing with an indistinct pale oblique band 

 across the end of the discoidal cell ; a broad very irregular discal 

 white band extending across the wing, divided into oblong spots by the 

 brown veins crossing it, the four anterior portions from the costa to 

 the third median nervule are placed outwardly obliquely, the first portion 

 on the costa is very small, the second is larger, the third is the 

 lai'gcst, the fourth not quite so long as the third but broader; the 

 four remaining portions of the band are placed parallel to the outer 

 margin, the upper portion in the second median interspace is oval in 

 shape, the second portion is the largest of all and has a small round 

 black spot in its middle, the third is smaller than the second but bears 

 a large round black spot, the posteriormost portion on the inner margin 

 is short ; two subapical crescent-shaped white spots placed obliquely, 

 divided by the upper discoidal nei-vule. Hindiving with a broad even 

 discal white band extending from the costa to near the abdominal margin, 

 * Butt, from Chiua, Japan, and Corea, p. 114, pi. i, fig. 8, female (1892). 



