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cinereous. Hvndwing with a very large tuft of long mane-like black 

 hairs below the costa ; the disc of the wing clothed with long golden- 

 coloured hair-like scales, leaving a somewhat broad outer border of 

 the ground-colour. Cilia pale ochreous. Underside, both wings pale 

 ochreous. Forewing with the spots of the upperside, the inner mar- 

 gin extending somewhat widely on to the disc, very pale fuscous. 

 Hindmng unmarked. Head, thorax and abdomen above clothed with 

 long golden-yellow hairs, beneath and legs pale ochreous, the latter 

 inclined to reddish. Antennce black above, pale ochreous below, the 

 club and tip reddish. 



Described from a single example in the collection of Major C. H. 

 E. Adamson, who captured it at Meiktila in Upper Burma, 900 feet 

 above sea level, on 15th February, 1890, and who writes to me that 

 " It was flying on a sandy road, which in the rains becomes a water- 

 course between two hedges." I place this species most doubtfully 

 in the genus Parnara, not knowing where better to locate it. The 

 " male-mark " is quite unique in my experience, and this little desert 

 butterfly has no near allies as far as I am aware. 



Since the above was written, I have seen two more male specimens 

 of this species in Lieutenant E. Y. Watson's collection, both taken in 

 Burma — one at Poungadaw. They differ from the type specimen 

 in lacking on the upperside of the hindwing the long golden- 

 coloured hair-like scales on the disc ; these are probably androconia 

 and being deciduous are often wanting in more or less worn specimens 

 like the ones under notice. On the underside of the same wing also 

 the ground-colour is pale brown, the overlying pale yellow scales 

 seen in the typical specimen have disappeared, leaving a sub- 

 marginal series of yellowish spots and numerous rather indistinct 

 spots covering the disc. These worn specimens, therefore, have 

 a very different appearance from the freshly- emerged specimen, but 

 they all certainly represent one and the same species. Major C. T. 

 Bingham has also sent me a single male specimen taken in the Ataran 

 Valley, Burma, in February. This is even more aberrant than the 

 two specimens noted above, as it is quite prominently marked with 

 numerous ochreous spots placed upon a dark ground on the underside. 

 The species appears therefore to vary considerably ; nevertheless the 

 male can always be distinguished at a glance by the curiously- shaped 



