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40. CHAPRA KARSANA, MOORE. 



Hesperia "karsana, Moore, P. Z. S. 5 1874, P- 57 6 , P 1 - lxvii > fi g- 6. 



" Upperside pale olive brown. Cilia pale fawn-colour. Male forewing 

 with minute oblique subapical spots more distinct below, where is a discal 

 row of four somewhat quadrate spots, the third spot smallest. 



Underside much paler, marked as above ; space from abdominal margin 

 to middle of wing pale brownish white. 



Expanse, if- inch. 



Habitat, Rawul Pindi, N. Punjab. (Capt. PL B. Hellard)." (Moore, I. c.) 



Recorded from Kumaon (Doherty) ; Campbellpore, N.-W. India (Bntler) ; 

 Quetta, Kandahar and Karachi (Swinhoe}. 



According to Col. Swinhoe this is " a common species at Karachi at 

 all seasons of the year." 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



A slight variety of this species has been described as below. 



Hesperia karsana, var. saturata, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 

 1882, p. 19. 



" Much darker and without a trace of spots on the upperside. One 

 female from Kamorta [Nicobars] ; and Kulu, N.-W. Himalayas." (Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville, I. c.) 



I obtained a single specimen of this variety at Quetta, it is unmarked 

 on upperside, but the usual spots are distinctly traceable on the underside of 

 the forewing. 



In collection Indian Museum. 



GENUS XVII, PARNARA. 



Parnara, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 166 (1881). 



Baoris, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 379 (1886), part. 



" This genus comprises a group of species which have been variously 

 referred to Hesperia, Pamphila and Gegenes. They are similar in form of 

 wings, venation, and antennae to Chapra, but the males have no oblique 

 glandular streak on the forewing. 



Type, P. guttata" (Moore, I. c.}. 



41. PARNARA GUTTATA, BREMER and GREY. 



Eudamus guttatus, Bremer and Grey, Schmett. N. China, p. 10 (1853). 



Pamphila mangala, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 792. 



Hesperia bada, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 688. 



Parnara bada, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i,p. 167, pi. 70, figs. 2, ia (1881). 



" Upperside dark brown ; forewing with six small whitish semi-trans- 

 parent spots curving before the apex, also two small similar spots within the 

 cell ; hindwing with a discal linear series of four conjugated semi-transparent 

 spots. Cilia pale brownish white. Underside paler, suffused with greenish 



