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oolireous patch in the disc just beyond the cell, consisting of two trans- 

 lucent areas joined by the opaque orange-ochreous base of the upper 

 median space, the outer one larger, obliquely quadrate, between the 

 lower subcostal and upper median branches, the other occupying the 

 basal part of the lower median space. 



Beloia blackisli, the veins, except near the abdominal margin of both 

 wings, widely bordered with reddish-ochreous. Forewing with the 

 rufous costal area extending over the upper part of the cell ; that in the 

 interno-median space much larger and paler than above. Hindwimj 

 with a number of lustrous lilac markings in the black spaces between 

 the reddish nerve-rays, namely, two in the cell, the basal one elongate, 

 one at the base of the oosta, elongate, two in the upper subcostal space, 

 the outer one elongate, one in the lower subcostal space, quadrate, and 

 three in the median and submedian spaces, in a line receding from the 

 border. Cilia oohreous. 



One male, Margherita, and a similar one, Sadiya. The species is a 

 local form (diiferiug in the large subapical spots, the absence of the 

 outer — fourth — discal spot, the undivided cell-spot separated from the 

 intei'no-median one, and in the ochreous patch of the hindwing con- 

 .sisting of two hyaline and one opaque space and confined to the disc) 

 of another found in the three Indo-Malayan islands, the Malayan Pen- 

 insula, and Mergui, but evei-ywhere rare. The Javanese form {lalli- 

 neura) seems, judging from my specimens, to differ but slightly. The 

 single, very worn Mergui specimen, taken by Dr. Anderson, has been 

 identified by Mr. Moore as Flastingia latoia, Hewitson. But that 

 species (and P. calliiieiira, Felder, which is regarded as conspocific 

 with it) has been described and figured by Hewitson, Felder, and Dis- 

 tant with ochreous submarginal spots on the hindwing below, no blue 

 ones being mentioned. In any case the above-mentioned characters 

 separate my species as a distinct local form. 



The egg of several species of Plastingia examined by me generally 

 resembles that of Stiastws. But like those of Hesperia satwa, de Niceville, 

 and the species of Oupitha, though in a lesser degree, it possesses a 

 large crown-like mass of white cells apioally, surrounding the micro- 

 pyles, as delicate in structure as the finest lace. They are the most 

 beautiful butterfly-eggs known to me. 



Ismone-g7Vup. 



Capila jayadeva, Moore. One female, Margherita. I mention this 

 species because according to Mr. Blwes it has never been recorded from 

 anywhere except Sikkim. 



