374 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Genus HASOEA. 



Hasoni, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 159 (1881). 



Hasora princiiially differs and is most easily distinguished from the previous genus, Choaspes, 

 to which it is closely allied, by the position of the second median nervule of the anterior wing, which is 

 emitted about midway between the bases of the first and third median nervules. 



According to present knowledge, Hasora is a purely Oriental genus, and two species are 

 here included as found in the Malay Peninsula. 



1. Hasora badra. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 3 <? .) 



Ooniloba Badra, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 245, n. 532, t. 7, f. 3, 3rt (1857); 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G5, p. 778. 

 Hesperia Badra, Butl. Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 554, n. 3 (1877). 

 Ismene Badra, Suell. Tijd. Ent. xxi. p. 41, u. 1G7 (1878) ; Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A. S. Beng. vol. l. p. 256, 



n. Ill (1881) ; Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 59, n. 25 (1884,. 

 Hasora Badra, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 159, t. 65, f. 4, a, h (1881); de Nic. J.A. S. Beng. vol. li. p. 65, 



n. 195 (1882). 



Male. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; posterior wings with the fringe brownish-grey. Wings 

 beneath paler than above, both wings crossed by a somewhat indistinct dark fuliginous fascia ; anterior 

 wings with the inner marginal area pale yellowish-grey ; posterior wings with a greyish-white spot in and 

 near end of cell, and a fuliginous submarginal fascia developing into a large and dark fuliginous spot at anal 

 angle, which is preceded by an oblique greyish spot. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings ; 

 palpi and posterior segmental margins beneath yellowish-grey. 



Var. — Posterior wings beneath having the greyish spot in cell and the greyish streak above anal angle 

 practically obliterated or obsolete. 



Female. This sex is figured and described in Mr. Moore's ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' and differs from 

 the male in having the anterior wings spotted above; "three small subapical spots .... and three large 

 obliquely-quadrate spots, two being disposed on the disc, the third above them within the cell."* 



Exp. wings, 48 to 50 millim. 



H.tB. — Continental India ; Bengal (Moore); Sikkim (de Nic). — Ceylon (Moore). — Andaman Islands ; 

 Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Malay Peninsula ; Perak (Kiinstl. — Calc Mus.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — 

 Brit. Mus.) ; Johore (coll. Stand.). — Java (Horsf. & Moore). — Celebes (SnelL). — Philippines (Pliitz). 



Mr. Moore, in describing both Bengalese and Ceylouese male examples of this species, 

 refers to " three conjugated very small yellowish semitransparent spots near the costa, one 

 fourth from the apex" on the upper surface of the anterior wings, but these spots are practically 

 absent in the few specimens I have examined from the Malay Peninsula. 



The larva and pupa of this species as observed in Java are figured by Horsfield, f 

 who describes the first as feeding " upon a leguminous plant bearing the native name of 

 Tunokul." 



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* Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 160. 



t Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. vol. i. t. vii. f. 3, 3a. 



