14 HASORA. 



DESCRIPTION : MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings as in H. anura, mihi. 

 Forewing lacking the subapical yellow dot (this however is a trivial 

 character). UNDERSIDE, both wings dull brown, not slightly glossed with 

 purple as in H. anura, or strongly so as in H. badra, Moore. Hindwing with 

 a small anal lobe bearing a black patch, in H. anura there is no black patch 

 or anal lobe, in H. badra both are large. This species is probably variable 

 with regard to the presence or absence of a white or greyish spot in the cell 

 of the hindwing on the underside, and a white or greyish streak above the 

 anal angle, as in the two allied species above named ; Mr. Distant describ- 

 ing a " var" of this species as lacking these characters. 



I have not figured this species, as Mr. Distant has done so in his 

 " Rhopalocera Malayana." I have described it from a single male from 

 Perak in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, which Mr. Distant 

 ticketed " Hasora badra, Moore (var)" I am unable to say whether or not 

 H. badra occurs in Malacca, Johore, Java, Celebes, and the Philippines 

 (localities given for H. badra by Messrs. Distant and Butler). The true H. 

 badra, Moore, occurs in Sikkim, Assam, Calcutta (one female taken by 

 Colonel G. F. L. Marshall, R. E., in his room at midnight in February), 

 Ceylon, Chittagong, Moulmein and the Andaman Isles (a single female)." 

 (de Niceville, I.e.}. 



16. HASORA COULTERI, WOOD-MASON and DE NICEVILLE. 



Hasora coulteri, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. iv., 

 pt. 2, p. 378. no. 201, pi. xviii, figs. 8, male ; Sa, 8b, female (1886). 



Hasora vitta, Distant, (nee Butler), Rhop. Malay., p. 375, n. 2, pi. xxxv, 

 fig. 4, male (1886). 



" $ . Upperside, both wings dark bronzy brown, paler at the base 

 owing to the presence of a thick clothing of paler olivaceous brown setae; 

 costal margin of the forewing and the veins and outer margins of both 

 wings darker and faintly glossed with purple ; and with the cilia smoky 

 brown. Forewing without spots, but with three ill-defined discal bands 

 composed of modified scales arranged along each side of the submedian 

 nervure, and of the first and second median nervules, and probably 

 concealed by setae in the living insect. Underside, forewing strongly 

 glossed with purple at the apex, and with a brownish ashy lustrous 

 patch, extending nearly to the outer margin, divided by the submedian 

 nervure, and slightly diffused over the disc. Hindwing crossed by a 

 pearly-white slightly outwardly concave prominent discal band, which 

 extends from the costal to the submedian nervure, where it is slightly 

 recurved, is broadest in the middle of its length, narrowest at its posterior 

 or inner extremity, and reappears close to the abdominal margin as a 

 clump of white scales divided by the internal nervure ; the wing suffused 

 with purple beyond the white band, especially on the dark anal blotch, 

 in front of which there extends nearly as far as the third median nervule 

 a distinct whitey-brown anteciliary line. 



