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first median nervule, the ochreous spot and line obscure in one speci- 

 men ; a prominent whitish spot in the middle of the disc in one speci- 

 men, obscure in the other. FEMALE. 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 constrict- 

 ed 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 Hasova badva, Moore, from which it 

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

 this lobe being present in H. badra and coloured black on the underside, 

 of which black patch there is no trace in H. 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 Sikkim species in Mr. Moller's collection. The complete 

 absence of the large anal lobe or tail in H. anura makes it distinguish- 

 able 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 H. badra, but I believe 

 it to be a good species. 



I may note that the Hasova vitta of Distant is the PI. coulteri of Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville. A specimen from Perak is in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, and differs from the type male specimens from Cachar 

 in possessing two minute semi-transparent yellow dots on the disc of the 

 forewing, and a similar spot in the discoidal cell of the hindwing on the 

 underside, characters of no importance. The true H. vitta, Butler, which 

 is from Sarawak, Borneo, may be known from H. coulteri by having the 

 basal area of the hindwing on the underside glossed with green (virescente) ; 

 this is not found in H. coulteri" (de Niceville, I. c.) 



15. HASORA HADRIA, DE NICEVILLE. 



? Hesperia badra, Butler, (nee Moore), Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, 

 second series, vol. i, p. 554, n. 3 (1877) ; Hasora badra, Distant (nee Moore), 

 Rhop. Malay., p. 374, n. i, pi. xxxv, fig. 3, male (1886). 



Hasora hadria, de Niceville, Journal Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iv, 

 p. 172 (1889). 



" HABITAT : Perak, ? Malacca. 



EXPANSE : ,2*1 inches. 



