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side paler brown, irrorated with ochreous scales which are thickly 

 disposed along the costa and apex of forewing and across discal area 

 of hindwing : forewing marked as above, also with a small whitish spot 

 above hind margin : hindwing with two discal white spots. Female : 

 forewing with larger spots than in the male, also with a minute dot beneath 

 the lower discal spot and a triangular yellow spot above hind margin ; 

 hindwing with three discal semi-diaphanous spots. Underside : forewing 

 as above : hindwing with four discal white spots, and a fifth at end of 

 the cell. 



Expanse : <f i, 9 i inches. 



Habitat : Canara (Ward)." (Moore, I. c.) 



Not in collection Indian Museum, unknown to de Niceville. 



55.-PARNARA AUSTENI, MOORE. 



Baovis austeni, Moore, P. Z. S., 1883, p. 533. 



Paynava austeni, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1888, p. 448, woodcut n. 3. 



" Male and Female. Upperside dark brown. Male : forewing with 

 two small semi-hyaline white spots at end of the cell, two before the apex, 

 and three obliquely on the disk, the two upper of which are small. 

 Female with markings the same, but slightly larger ; also with a small 

 yellow spot above the hind margin ; cilia cinereous-white. Underside 

 as above ; both sexes having also a slight yellowish patch above the 

 hind margin. 



Expanse : </ if, 9 i-} inches. 



Habitat: Khasia Hills; Cherra Punji. 



This species is allied to H. cahira from the Andamans and to H. 

 moolata, from Tenasserim." (Moore, I. c.) 



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

 (Elwes). 



I have numerous specimens of the species from Rangoon. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



56. PARNARA CAHIRA, MOORE. 



Hesperia cahira, Moore, P. Z. S., 1877, p. 593, pi. Iviii, fig. 8 ( $ only.) 



Hesperia cahira, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., vol. 1, 

 pt. 2, p. 258, n. 121, 9 (1881). 



" Male. Upperside dark rufous-brown suffused with olive-brown at 

 the base. Forewing with two small yellow spots at end of the cell, two 

 on the disk, and two very small spots before the apex. 



Underside rufous-brown. 



Expanse : $ if inches. 



Habitat : S. Andamans (Port Blair). 



Near to H. oceia, Hewitson ; differs in the male above in the absence 

 of the basal tuft of hairs on the hindwing, and beneath also in the absence 



