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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 267 longer and narrower than in T. bremeri; the markings also are more like those in T. crameri, there being only two small upper submarginal spots, which, however, are more elongated and narrower ; the next (or largest) spot is also much longer and narrower, the fourth smaller, and the lower three very small; the marginal row is distinct, but very small: hind wing with two rows of small distinct white spots. Expanse 3| inches. Hab. Singapore. In coll. F. Moore. 4. TRONGA BREMERI. (Plate XXIX. fig. 5, 8 •) Euplcea bremeri, Felder, Wien. entom. Monats. iv. p. 398 (1860) ; Distant, Rhopalocera Malayana, p. 23, pl. 2. f. 4, 8. Crastia bremeri, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 298 (1878). Euplcea (Crastia) bremeri, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 79 (1882). Hab. Malay peninsula, Malacca (Province Wellesley); British Burmah (Tavoy, Mergui). ^ Female. Slightly paler than in male, marked the same on both wings. 5. TRONGA OLIVACEA, n. sp. Female. Pale olive-brown : fore wing with a very prominent small whitish costal spot above end of the cell, two on the disk, a submarginal series of nine spots, the three upper small and narrow, the fourth and fifth large and elongated, the others small but irregular in size, the eighth exceeding the other three in size ; a marginal row of thirteen small spots: hind wing with a submarginal and marginal row of small prominent whitish spots. Underside paler, with all the markings as above; the fore wing also with a greyish streak between mediau and submedian, and hind wing with four small discal spots. Expanse, § 2g inches. Hab. Minthantoung, Thoungyeen valley, Tenasserim (Bingham). In coll. W . L. Distant. 6. TRONGA MOOREI. Euplcea moorei, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 277, 2 (nee Felder). Crastia moorei, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 298. Smaller than T. brookei: fore wing with the submarginal spots more distinct and rounded, and the hind wing with a complete marginal row of small spots and a short upper submarginal row. Expanse 3^ inches. Hab. Sumatra (Brit. Mus.) ; ? Borneo (Pryer). Coll. F. Moore. 7. TRONGA NIASICA, n. sp. Dark violet-brown, inclining to black-brown: fore wing with a small white costal spot, two small slightly oval spots beyond upper end of |