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. Antenme black. Body throughout ferruginous.
Nearest to 8'. howqua, Westwood, var. suffusa, Leech,[1] from Western China, diifering in the forewiug on the upperside in the pale apical area being very much smaller, not extending into the cell as it does in S. howqua, var. sufiusa; on the hindwing the hastate markings in S. Sparta are well formed, in Mr. Leech’s species they have lost all shape, having coalesced into an almost solid black band. On the underside the ground- eolour in S. howqua, var. suffusa is pale greenish, in 8. Sparta it is ferruginous, but this may he only a sexual (lifierence ; but in true .5. howqua and its named variety the outer diseal 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 8. Sparta, has only five.
Described from a single example purchased from a telegraph signaller employed at Manipur.
Subfamily Nymphalinæ.
3. HERONA pnmeoxmxl, Fruhstorfer, Plate 111, Figs. 5, d‘ ,- 4, 9 .
ll. pringondani, Fruhstorfer, Ent. Nach., vol. xix, p. 314: (1893).
HABITAT: Java.
Exmxss: 6‘, 2‘9; 9, 2'9 to 3'1 inches.
DESCRIPTION: MALE. Uprnnsmn, both wings dull brown, slightly tinged with oehl‘eous. Forewing with an indistinct pale oblique band across the end of the diseoidal cell; a broad very irregular diseal whitc band extending across the wing, divided into oblong spots by the brown vcins crossing it, the four anterior portions from the costa to the third median ncrvule are placed outwardly obliquely, the first portion on the eosta is vcry small, the second is larger, the third is the largest, 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 inedian interspace is oval in shape, thc 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 nervule. Hindw-ing with a broad even discal white band extending from the eosta to near the abdominal margin,
- ↑ Butt. from China, Japan, and Curea, p. 114, pl. i, fig. 8, female (1892).
