402 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. IX. 

 (2) ITON WATSONII, de Niceville. 



Parnara watsonii, de Nice'ville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. v, p. 223, n. 19 (1890) ; 

 idem, id., 1. c, vol. vi, p. 388, pi. G, fig. 29, male (1891) ; id., Watson, Hesp. Ind., p. 46, n.62, 

 (1891) ; VnJcana watsonii, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 123. 



Habitat: Burma. 



I possess a long series of this species from Telin Yaw, Younzalin, 

 Papun, and Thoungyin, taken in December, February, and March, by 

 Captain E. Y. Watson and Lieutenant-Colonel C. T. Bingham. 



The type of the genus Unkana is the " Hesperia " attina, Hewitson 

 1866), = "Hesperia" latreillei, Felder (1867), = " Goniloba" 

 cruda, Herrich-Schaffer (1869), = Unkana batara, Distant (1886). 



I possess specimens from Bassein, Henzada, and Maulmain (all in 

 Burma) and from Java. It occurs also in Malacca, Singapore, N.-E. 

 Sumatra, and again in Palawan and Mindanao, two of the Philippine 

 Isles. In the verandah of Colonel C. T. Bingham's bungalow at 

 Maulmain, during the month of October, the butterfly comes commonly 

 to the flowers of the Eucharist Lilies to rob the honey. The males are 

 far commoner than the females. The flight of this large " Skipper " 

 is very swift and headlong, but when settled on the flowers busily 

 engaged drinking the honey it may be caught between the fingers. 

 Mr. Distant, in describing Unkana batara, a MS. name of Mr. Moore's, 

 did not recognise that it is the opposite (male) sex of U. attina, 

 owing doubtless to the very great superficial dissimilarity between 

 the sexes. My own observations on the live animals had, however, 

 convinced me of the fact before Herr Georg Semper had published 

 the same conclusion in his Butterflies of the Philippine Isles, p. 288, 

 n. 417. 



48. BAORIS {Parnara) PHILOTAS, n. sp., PI. Q, Fig. 60, $. 



Habitat : North Kanara and Trevandrum, both in South India. 



Expanse : #,1*2 inches. 



Description : Male. Uppebside, both wings dark brown with a 

 vinous reflection. Cilia cinereous. Forewing with a quadrate dot at 

 the base of the second median interspace ; a quadrate spot, four times 

 as large as the dot anterior to it, near the middle of the first median 

 interspace. Hindiving with two hyaline white dots just beyond the 



