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Bombay Presidency ; Bangalore ; G an jam ; Orissa ; Calcutta ; Sikkim ; 

 Shillong, North Khasi Hills, Sibsagar — all in Assam ; Kalewa in the 

 Chindwin Valley, Rangoon, Daunat Range, Ataran Valley— all in 

 Burma ; Andaman Isles ; Perak ; N.-E. Sumatra ; Java (coll. de 

 Nicdville). 



Colonel Swinhoe writes of Hasora vitta : — " It has been mixed up 

 in Indian collections with the commoner Indian Parata alexis, Fabri- 

 cius,* but can easily be distinguished by the subapical white [not 

 white, distinctly ochreous] spot on the upperside [on both sides] of the 

 forewing, and the entire absence of the very characteristic subgeneric 

 [sic] sexual character of Parata, i.e., an oblique glandular streak of 

 laxly raised scales below the cell in the forewing above." This writer 

 uses Parata in a, generic sense, while speaking of its " subo-eneric" 

 characters. For my own part, I think Parata might with advantage 

 be used as a subgenus, as its " male-mark " is a very useful character 

 by which to separate off certain species, such as chromus and alexis, from 

 typical Hasoras, such as badra, coulteri, 7iadria, anura, and chabrona 

 which do not possess this " male-mark." 



The confusion regarding this species is very great. As far back as 

 1881, the late Mr. Wood-Mason and I in discussing the butterflies of 

 the Andaman Isles, t wrote of Ismene chromus^ Cramer : — " Andaman 

 females all have only a single small semi-transparent subapical speck 

 between the last two branches of the subcostal [nervure] of the 

 anterior wing ; but those from Continental India have sometimes one 

 and sometimes two besides this on the disc of the same wing, which 

 in one from Bangalore in South India are enlarged into two con- 

 spicuous reversed comma-shaped spots." The identification of the 

 species is incorrect, Hasora chromus does not occur in the Andamans, 

 the species referred to is H. chabrona. At the time of writing we had 

 only received males of H. chabrona from the Andamans ; we did not 

 recognise this fact, taking them to be females, as we expected to find 

 in the males of this species a similar <: male-mark " to that present in 



* The species here meant is more probably Easora chromus, Cramer. Hasora alexis is 

 a scarce species, being, as far as I know, confined to South India (Ootacamund and Ooonoor 

 in the Mlgiri Hills, North Kanara, and Travancore), and to Ceylon. Colonel Swinhoe records 

 both Easora chromus and E. alexis from " Shillong," the latter in error I think, 



f Journ. A. S. B., vcl. 1, pt. 2, P . 254, n. 104 (1881). 



