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spots. Underside greyish olive-brown ; spots slightly more prominent 

 than above ; hindwing with a discal series of five small somewhat 

 indistinct white spots. 



Expanse i f inch. 



Hab. Salween, Moulmain (Lt. Bevan). 



A male specimen of this species from Calcutta collected by the late 

 Mr. Atkinson is in the collection of Dr. O. Staudinger." (Moore, I. c.} 



Also recorded from Karachi, Mhow, Poona and Bombay (Swinhoe) ; 

 Calcutta (de Niceville} ; Orissa (Taylor) ; Nilgiris (Hampson}. 



Mr. Elwes also states that he has specimens from Mandi, 

 N.-W. Himalayas, Khasias, and Sikkim. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



45. PARNARA ASSAMENSIS, WOOD-MASON and DE NICEVILLE. 



Pavnara assamensis, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A.S.B., 1882, p. 65. 



Parnara assamensis, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1886, p. 

 382, pi. xviii, fig. 5, 5a cf , pi. xvii, fig. 7, >ja, 9 . 



" cf 5 9 Upperside, both wings rich dark vandyke-brown prominently 

 marked with semi-transparent white lustrous spots, with the base of the 

 interne-median and the basal three-fourths of the inner margin of the 

 forewing, and the posterior or inner half of the hindwing from the base 

 nearly to the outer margin along the veins, clothed with olive-brown setae. 

 Forewing with ten spots in the male and eleven in the female, viz., two 

 oblong at the end of the cell, disjunct in the male, but connected at their 

 inner and opposite ends in the female, three subapical, and five discal in 

 the male, but six in the female, forming an oblique series extending from 

 the submedian nervure to the hinder discoidal nervule in the male, but to 

 the subcostal (or front discoidal) in the female ; of which spots the first is 

 subtriangular, touches the submedian nervure, and is subequal to the 

 fourth ; the second, in the same interspace with the first, is equal to the 

 first subapical, and lies close to, but does not touch, the first median 

 nervule ; the third, the largest of all, is equal to, or rather larger than, the 

 first and fourth put together, and acute-angled at its outer end ; the fourth 

 is rhomboidal ; the fifth rather larger than the second ; and the sixth, 

 present in the female only, is shaped somewhat like one of the strokes of a 

 section-sign (). Hindwing with a small oval discal spot sometimes 

 accompanied by a very minute dot in front of the third median nervule. 

 Underside, forewing marked as above, but with the hindermost spot 

 touching the submedian nervure outwardly diffused. Hindwing covered 

 with minute olive-brown scales, and lighter internal to a straight line 

 drawn obliquely across the interno-median area from the apex of the third 

 median nervule to the base of the submedian nervure, with a prominent 

 white lustrous dot near the anterior end of the cell and a curved discal series 

 of four white lustrous spots, of which the third from the inner margin is by 

 far the largest, transparent, visible on the upper side, and may or may not 



