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shining yellow dot. Underside, both icings dark brown, somewhat 

 glossed with purple. For&wing with the inner margin broadly pale, 

 a broad discal dark band free from purple gloss. Hindmng with 

 the basal two-thirds much darker than the outer third, the dark 

 portion well-defined, bearing towards the abdominal margin on the 

 dividing edge a small prominent ochreous spot, an ochreous ante- 

 ciliary line from the anal angle to the first median nervule, the 

 ochreous spot and line obscure in one specimen ; a prominent whitish 

 spot in the middle of the disc in one specimen, obscure in the other. 

 Famale. Upperside, both wings coloured as in the male. Forewing 

 with a quadrate spot at the end of the cell, an elongate one below 

 across the first median interspace, its inner edge straight, its outer 

 edge concave ; another smaller narrow spot constricted in the middle 

 across the middle of the second median interspace ; three increasing 

 subapical dots — all these spots shining translucent rich ochreous, 

 Underside, forewing with the spots of the upperside showing through, 

 the inner margin broadly bright ochreous, otherwise as in the male. 



Closely allied to the common Hasora badra, Moore, from which it 

 differs in both sexes in having no large anal lobe to the hindwing, this 

 lobe beiug present in H. badra and coloured black on the underside, of 

 which black patch there is no trace in II. anura; the latter also is a 

 smaller insect ; the female differs in having the three large discal yellow 

 spots of the forewing considerably smaller, and of a deeper richer 

 yellow. 



Described from two male and four female specimens in Mr. Otto 

 Moller's collection which shew hardly any variation. They have 

 been selected from ninety- three males and forty -five females of 

 H. badra, a very common species in Sikkim, in Mr. Moller's col- 

 lection. The complete abseuce of the large anal lobe or tail in 

 II. anura makes it distinguishable from H. badra at a glance. 

 There is also a specimen of this species from Sikkim in the collection 

 of Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, and a male from Shillong in the collection 

 of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. This latter specimen was submitted 

 for determination to Mr. F. Moore, who pronounced it to be a 

 variety of II. badra, but I believe it to be a good species. 



I may note that the Hasora litta of Distant* is the H. coulteri of 

 Wood-Mason and de Niceville.f A specimen from Perak is in the 



* Rkop. Malay p. 375, n. 2, pi. xxsv, fig. 4, male (18S6). 



t Journ. A. S. B. vol. Iv, pt. 2, p. 378, n. 201, pi. xviii, fig. 8, male; 8a, 86, 

 female (1886). 

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