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Expanse: <? , 9 , 17 to i f 8 inches. 

 Habitat : Sikkim. 



Near to P. pagana, de Niceville, but always smaller, the diaphanous 

 spots white instead of yellow, no spot in the cell, and with no ferruginous 

 setse at the base of the wings on the upperside. Near to P. austeni, 

 Moore, which also occurs commonly in Sikkim, but lacking the two spots 

 in the cell of the forewing, these spots being present also in P. cahira, 

 Moore, P. farri, Moore, and P. moolata, Moore. Nearest of all to P. 

 kitmara, Moore. From Ceylon specimens of the latter species it differs in the 

 ground-colour of the underside being dull dark brown, sometimes tinged 

 with ochreous, instead of deep ochreous-brown. Mr. Wood-Mason has 

 kindly examined a Ceylon male specimen of the latter species, also a 

 male of P. plebeia, and writes regarding them as follow : " I regard 

 these two specimens as belonging to quite distinct species. The male 

 genital somites and appendages differ very considerably in detail, 

 though identical in plan ; in the Sikkim species the terminal dorsal 

 segment is furnished with a pair of conspicuous conical spines which curve 

 upwards, forwards, and backwards from the disc, and is shorter, and the 

 upper lobe of the claspers is smaller and is embraced at its lower border by 

 the commensurately developed spine of the lower lobe ; while in the Ceylon 

 species the terminal dorsal segment is furnished with shorter spines, from 

 the base of each of which a small cusp is given off backwards, and the 

 sclerite is of greater antero-posterior extent ; and the upper lobe of the 

 claspers is more curved and longer, extending much beyond the spine of the 

 lower lobe ; and the intromittent organ ends in a bilobed spiny brush in the 

 one, and is apparently simple in the other." P. plebeia is also near the 

 P. seriata, Moore ; the latter, however, is known to me only by the 

 description and figures. 



P. plebeia is a common species in Sikkim at low elevations." 

 (de Niceville, I. c.) 



Also recorded from Orissa (Taylor); Sikkim (Elwes). 



In collection de Niceville. 



51. PARNARA KUMARA, MOORE. 



Hespena kumara, Moore, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 687. 



Baoris kumara, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 166, pi. 69, figs. 2, 2a. 

 (1881). 



" Female. Upperside dark olive brown ; forewing with a transverse 

 discal series of seven yellowish semi-diaphanous spots from before the apex ; 

 cilia pale brownish-yellow. Underside deep ochreous-brown ; forewing 

 marked as above, the lowest spot being yellow : hindwing with a single 

 discal indistinct yellow spot between the two lower median branches, 

 Palpi and body brown ; tarsi ochreous. 



Expanse : if inches. 



