125 



forewings; inner margin clothed with long fuscous hairs. 

 Under side of forewings fuscous, purplish tinged between ter- 

 mination of cell and termen, more pronounced in female ; cilia 

 as above. Under side of hindwings fuscous, wholly suffused 

 ■with iridescent purple ; a broad transverse white entire fascia, 

 broadest in middle, posterior edge straight, anterior edge some- 

 what projecting in middle, from three-foui'ths of costa direct 

 to vein lb, thence deflected to inner margin above anal angle ; 

 a suffused blackish blotch on anal angle; cilia as above, but 

 becoming whitish at base between veins 1 and 2. 



Distinct by the broad entire fascia of under side of hind- 

 wings. 



Watson (P.Z.S., 1893) spells this Hurana. 



Cooktown, Cardwell, and Mackay, Queensland; five speci- 

 mens, November to February. 



78. Hasora CHROMUS, Cramer. 



{Papilio cliromus, Cramer, Pap. Ex., iii., pi. cclxxxiv., fig. E., 

 male, 1782 ; Parata chromu'<, Moore, Lep. Cey., i., p. 161, pi. 

 Ixv., figs. 1, a, b, 1881.) 



Male and female, 40-48 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 legs, and abdomen dark fuscous, palpi beneath faintly ochreous, 

 •collar greenish. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa gently 

 arched, termen faintly rounded, oblique; dark fuscous, without 

 markings; basal hairs fuscous; stigma of male formed as inter- 

 neural streaks; cilia dark fuscous. Hindwings with termen 

 produced on vein lb ; color, basal hairs, and cilia as in fore- 

 wings. Under side of forewings dark fuscous; cilia as above. 

 Under side of hindwings as forewings ; a narrow, white, trans- 

 verse fascia, posteriorly dilated, from costa at three-fourths 

 direct to vein lb, and there dilated ; a small whitish patch 

 on inner margin near termination of vein la; a large blackish 

 . patch on anal angle ; cilia fuscous, becoming white at base 

 between veins 1 and 2. 



Varies somewhat in size and width of white band of under 

 side of hindwings. Those which we possess from India and 

 Ceylon show a tendency to be suffused with pui-plish on under 

 side of hindwings. The species named Lucescens by Dr. Lucas 

 has been confused with the present species. However, the 

 totally different form of the stigma, which in the former is 

 well developed and of raised crescentic form, is very different 

 to that of Chromus, in which it appears (in Australian speci- 

 mens) as short longitudinal raised interneural streaks. The 

 broad band of hindwings of fonner is also a conspicuous charac- 

 ter. Messrs. Elwes and Edwards give Alexis, Moore, and 

 Malay ana, Feld. as, synonyms. 



