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 gular and constantly wider than high, thus j ~~~j ; in the eastern form 



(dan), this spot is always quadrate and higher than wide, thus I . The 



i » 



western insect is also appreciably larger and lighter coloured. C. fatih 

 seems sufficiently distinct to be treated as a local race. 



SATARUPA (genus). Moore. 



DAIMIO (genus). Murray. 



Watson in his Key to the Asiatic Hesperidse (Journ., Bom. Nat. His. 

 Soc, Vol. IX, page 421) separates Satarupa from Daimio on the strength 

 of the pencil of hairs on the hind tibise of the male of Daimio. This, how- 

 ever, is not a satisfactory division ; for in gopala, the type of Satarupa, this 

 pencil of hairs is strongly developed. It is absent only in sambara, Moore, 

 and its allied form dohertyi, Watson, which two also differ from all the other 

 Indian species of the genus in having white palpi. 



TAGIADES (genus). Hubner. 



Watson, in his paper already quoted, gives the strongly arched lower 

 margin of the cell between veins 2 and 3 of the forewing as a constant 

 characteristic ; but it does not always appear to hold good and is often 

 very hard to distinguish. A more constant feature (though facies is never 

 a very satisfactory one for the discrimination of genera) is the colouring of 

 the hindwing, which, in one group, is broadly white on both sides ; and in 

 another and more soberly coloured group, is always suffused with white or 

 bluish white scales on the underside. 



Caprona ransonnettii. Folder. 



Caprona saraya. Doherty. 



The distinctness of these two is doubtful. The latter was described 

 from a single male, and separated from ransonnettii on the presence of a 

 basal hyaline spot in the cell of the forewing (which ransonnettii has not 

 got) and the absence of all white on the disc of the hindwings below. As 

 records of distribution go, ransonnettii is the southern and eastern form and 

 saraya the north-western one ; but four specimens taken by me at different 

 places at the foot of the N.-W. Himalayas are suffused with white below 

 and have no basal spot in the cell of the forewing. They are thus inden- 

 tical with typical ransonnettii, and, in fact, de Niceville himself diagnosed 

 two of them as this species. C. ransonnettii does, therefore, extend to the 

 Western Himalayas, and saraya was possibly a casual aberration. 



Parnara (genus). Moore. 



Any analysis of the species of this difficult genus depends very largely 

 on the markings on the male insect, and it is therefore important to be 



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