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Parnara austeni, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 382. Watson, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 27. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 448, woodcut, fig. 3. 

 Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 43 (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 56. Leech, Butt, of 

 China, etc. ii. p. 613, pi. 42, fig. 7, ^ (1893). Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 

 p. 280, pi. 27, tigs. 89, a, b, c (genitalia). 



Caltorh austeni, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 323. 



Parnara nirwana austeni, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 53. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blacki.sh-brown. Forewiag with five semi-hyaline 

 white spots in a continuous series, increa.sing in size hindwards, the first two from near 

 the costa, minute, in an outwardly oblique line, the other three in an inwardly 

 oblique line, near the bases of interspaces 4, 3 and 2, the lowest much the largest, 

 outwardly somewhat produced into a point ; two moderately large spots inside 

 the cell near its end, well separated from each other, in an inwardly oblique 

 line. Ilindicing without markings. Cilia of both wings cinereous, with whitish 

 tips towards the hinder angle of each wing. Underside uniformly dark blackish- 

 brown ; the spots as above. Antennae black, the club whitish on the underside, and 

 the shaft spotted with white ; palpi, head, body and legs concolorous with the wings, 

 palpi and body on the underside with grey hairs. 



Female like the male, the wings somewhat broader, but there is on the forewing 

 an extra small spot in the discal series, on the suli-median vein, a little beyond its 

 middle, and in some examples there are three sub-apical dots ; and on the underside 

 the spot on the sub-median vein is larger, with a smaller spot immediately above its 

 outer side. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ 1t% to l^^- inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, China. 



Distribution.— The types in the B. M. are from the Khasia Hills, where it seems 

 to be a common species ; we have received many examples ; de Niceville and Elwes 

 both record it from Sikkim, Watson from tlie Chin Hills and Eangoon, Wood-Mason 

 and de Niceville from Cachar, and Leech from Kweichow, China. 



Note. — This species is much like C. cahira, Moore, but it is smaller, and the 

 wings in both sexes are comjiaratively narrower, and there are some other small 

 diflerences. de Niceville and Martin* say they have examples from Sumatra which 

 agree with the figures and descriptions of cahira, austeni, moolata and kumara, and 

 that all their Sumatran specimens appear to them to represent one species ; but Elwes 

 and Edwardsf found the genitalia of each difi"erent and sufficient for separation, and 

 we give, in their proper places, their descriptions of each ; with reference to austeni they 



* Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 550. 

 f Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 279. 

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