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his first visit to the island in 1887.* Mr. H. Fruhstorfer has also 

 given me two males captured by himself in August, 1892, on Mount 

 Gecle, 4,000 feet, in Western Java. 



50. HASORA (Parata) SIMPLICISSIMA, Mabille, PL Q, Figs. 

 62, $ ; 63, $. 



Ismene simplicis'slma, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, fifth series, vol. vi, p. xxv, n. 1, 

 (1876) ; idem, id., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, fifth series, vol. vi, p. 265, n. 11 (1876) ; id., 

 Staudinger, Iris, vol. ii, p. 138 (1889); Parata simjAicissima, Semper, Schmett.Philipp., p. 292, 

 n. 428 (1892) ; Ismene philetas, Plotz, Stet. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlv, p. 56, n. 14 (1884). 



Habitat : Moluccas (Mabille) ; Palawan in the Philippines, Mina- 

 hassa in Celebes (Staudinger) ; Babuyanes, Luzon, Mindoro, Samart 

 Bohol, Camiguin de Mindanao, Mindanao (Semper) j Philippines 

 (Plotz) ; Yunzalin Valley, Tenasserim, Burma ; N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse: $, 1*7 to 1*9 ; $, 1*8 to 1*9 inches. 



Descbiption : Male. Uppeeside, both wings dark shining hair- 

 brown. Forewing with an oblique discal narrow somewhat indistinct 

 black streak of modified scales from the inner margin to the third 

 median nervule. Hindwing immaculate. Undeeside, both wings 

 ochreous-brown, more or less faintly glossed with violet. Forewing 

 with the inner margin broadly somewhat paler than the rest of the 

 wing ; a broad discal fascia somewhat darker than the rest of the wing 

 parallel with the outer margin from the costa to near the submedian 

 nervure. Hindwing with the discal band of the forewing continued 

 as far as the submedian interspace, where it ends in a small ochreous 

 spot ; the anal lobe purplish-black. Cilia pale ochreous throughout. 

 Female. Uppeeside, both toings dark shining hair-brown. Forewing 

 with the base of the wing and basal half of the inner margin heavily 

 clothed with long ochreous setse ; three, two, one, or no minute sub- 

 apical diaphanous "old-gold" dots; an oblique quadrate similar spot 

 at the middle of the discoidal cell ; a small rhomboidal one placed 

 obliquely across the middle of the second median interspace ; a 

 similar one twice as large as the last-mentioned spot and placed in- 

 wardly obliquely posterior to it in the first median interspace ; in one 

 specimen there is still another small obliquely-placed similar spot 

 * Journ. A. S. B., vol. U, pt. 2, p. 141 (1891). 



