I 6 PARATA. 



The female is described by Mr. Moore in his "Lepidoptera of Ceylon" 

 as not differing from the male. 



Also recorded from Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; Nilgiris 

 (Hampson) ; Sikkim and Assam (Elwes). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



GENUS VII. PARATA. 



Parata, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 160 (1881). 



" Forewing narrower and less triangular than in Hasora, the exterior 

 margin shorter, and posterior margin longer; middle median emitted at 

 nearly one-half, and lower at one-sixth before end of the cell. Male with 

 an oblique glandular streak of laxly raised scales below the cell : hind- 

 wing less produced hindward ; anal lobe short and angular ; second 

 subcostal emitted at one-third from the base ; disco-cellulars very oblique ; 

 antennae more slender. 



Type P. chromus." (Moore, I. c.) 



The two species of this genus are doubtfully distinct. Typically, 

 P. alexis is smaller than P. chronms, with broader and more prominently 

 marked band on the hindwing ; but Mr. Elwes states that in a large 

 series of specimens from Ceylon, Bangalore, Sikkim, Shillong, Barrackpur, 

 and Burmah, he finds too much variation both in size and in the 

 band of the underside to enable him to distinguish them. Mr. de Niceville, 

 however, is of opinion that they may be distinct, and that alexis occurs 

 only in S. India and Ceylon, in which case the specimens recorded by 

 Mr. Butler and Colonel Swinhoe would probably be referable to chronms. 



18. PARATA CHROMUS, CRAMER, 



Papilio chromus, Cramer, Pap. Exot., vol. iii., pi. 284, fig. E. $ . (1782). 



Goniloba chronms, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 777. 



Parata chromus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i., p. 161, pi. 65, figs. i. a. b. 

 (1881). 



"Male and female dark vinaceous brown. 



Male with suffused blackish subbasal patch ; both wings greyish brown 

 basally. Cilia greyish brown. Head and thorax greenish brown. Abdomen 

 brown. Underside with the apex of forewing suffused with purple blue ; 

 hindwing with a narrow transverse discal bluish white band, a blackish 

 patch on anal lobe, exterior to which the cilia have a short white line. 

 Third joint of palpi and legs brown : palpi and thorax beneath dull yellow. 



Female paler brown ; forewing with two yellowish semi-transparent 

 discal spots, and a very small similar spot before the apex. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



Habitat, Bengal." (Moore, I. c. in P. Z. S.) 



Also occurs in the Andamans and at Bangalore (Wood-Mason and de 

 Niceville} ; Calcutta (de Niceville) ; Ceylon (Moore] ; Hyderabad, Sind 

 (Swinhoe)', Nilgiris (Hampson)', Orissa (Taylor); Sikkim (Elwes). And I 

 have obtained it in Rangoon, Ganjam, Madras, and the Nilgiris. 



