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Show 278 MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. [May 1, spot beyond situated between the upper and middle median branches: hind wing with the two rows of spots smaller and more sharply defined. Expanse, 8 3g inches. Hab. Malay peninsula. In coll. Mons. C Oberthur. 5. CRASTIA DISTANTI. (Plate XXIX. fig. 6, 8-) Crastia distantii, Moore, Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, ix. p. 453 (1882) ; Distant, Rhopalocera Malayana, p. 32, pl. 5. f. 9, 8 . Upperside dark cupreous-brown, glossed with olive-green : fore wing with a series of eight or nine white submarginal spots, and a marginal row of small spots, similarly disposed and of the same shape as those in the Malayan Tronga bremeri, but somewhat larger ; two small spots also on the disk below the upper and middle median veins in some specimens ; a short slender sericeous streak between lower median and submedian : hind wing with two rows of prominent white spots. Underside greenish olive-brown : fore wing with marginal markings as above; two small spots also on the costa, another spot at end of the cell, and three on the disk : hind wing with prominent marginal spots ; a spot at end of the cell, and five spots beyond. Expanse 2f to 31 inches. Hab. Sumatra (type); Malay peninsula (Province Wellesley) In coll. F. Moore and W . L. Distant. 6. CRASTIA ESPERI. Euplcea esperi, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesell. xii. p. 481, 2 (1862); Moore,P.Z.S. 1877, p. 582; W.-Mason, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1881, p. 227 ; Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 83 (1882). Hab. Nicobars. 7. CRASTIA GODARTI. Euplcea godartii, Lucas, Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 319, $; Butler, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 275; id. Journ. Linn. Soc,Zool. xiv. p. 301; Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 824 ; Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 34, pl. 3. f. 8. Euplcea siamensis, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 341, pl. 41. f. 6(1867). Euplcea godartii, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 84 (1882). Hab. British Burmah ; Upper Tenasserim ; Malacca ; Siam ; Java (Lucas), Philippine Islands (Brit. Mus. coll.). 8. CRASTIA BINGHAMI, n. sp. Allied to C. godarti. Similar in colour, but with the pitchy-orown tint darker and confined more obliquely to the basal area, the apical area without any trace of purplish grey. Male. Fore wing with similar marginal spots and a shorter sericeous streak ; hind wing with similar spots as in C. godarti. Female. Fore wing with a curved submarginal row of seven spots, |