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ochreous. Underside, both wings brown strongly washed with vinous. 

 Forewing with the spots as above but white instead of ochreous, the spot 

 in the cell entire. Hindwing with a lengthened subcostal broad streak 

 posteriorly bounded by the subcostal nervure and second subcostal nervule ; 

 a discal recurved transverse series of six quadrate . spots, of which the 

 two below the posterior end of the subcostal streak are the smallest, a 

 similar but somewhat suffused spot near the base of the wing the streak 

 and spots all pure silvery. Head and body concolorous with the wings 

 above, palpi and sternum pale ochreous beneath, rest of body and legs 

 concolorous with wings beneath. 



Expanse : 9 2-0 inches. 



Habitat ; Karen Hills, Burma. 



A single specimen was obtained in April, 1887, in the Karen Hills 

 by the native collector attached to the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, and 

 I am indebted to Mr. B. Noble for the opportunity of describing it. It is 

 a remarkable species with no near Indian ally, but appears to belong to 

 the same group as the " Hesperia" ovnata of Felder from Buitenzorg, Java, 

 a species which has the spots of the forewing on the underside smaller, 

 and a double series of spots on the hindwing, as shewn in the figure." 

 (de Niceville, I. c.) 



48. PARNARA NAROOA, MOORE. 



Hesperia narooa, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 687, pi. xlv, fig. 4. 



Parnara narooa, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 167, pi. 69, figs. 3. a.b. 

 (1880-81). 



Baoris narooa, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 380, pi. Ixxxiv, fig. 12 9 

 (1886). 



" Male and female. Upperside dark olive brown : forewing with two 

 prominent semi-diaphanous yellowish well-separated spots at end of 

 the cell, a subapical series of three smaller spots and an oblique discal 

 series of five spots : hindwing with two very small discal spots in male, 

 three in female. Underside dark olive brown ; forewing marked as 

 above : hindwing with a prominent white spot at upper end of the cell, 

 and a curved discal series of four spots. Body olive green. 



Expanse i T 9 inch. 



Hab. Bombay : Ceylon. 



Allied to * H. contigua, Mabille. Markings similar, but both sexes 

 one-third less in size." (Moore, P. Z. S. I. c.) 



" Larva pale olive green, delicately speckled with darker green and 

 black dots; a pale unspeckled upper lateral line; head black marked. 

 Pupa pale olivaceous-yellow, darker shaded on thorax." (Moon, Lep. 

 Cey., I. c.) 



* Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville state they are unable to trace this reference 

 (J. A. S. B. 1881, p. 260). 



