312 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Expanse of wiugs, $ 2^^ to 2^, ? 2j\ to 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Hong Kong, Tonkin. 



Distribution. — A common species in A-ssam ; we have received numerous 

 examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills, and have it also from Sikkim. Doherty 

 records it from Kumaon, Watson from Tilin and the Chin Hills, J. J. Walker from 

 Hong Kong, and Friihstorfer from Tonkin. 



CALTORIS(0 UMA. 



Plate 829, figs. 3, ? , 3a, ? . 



Parnara uma, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 592, pi. 13, fig. 9, J . Watson, Hesp. 



Ind. p. 38 (1891). Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 285. 

 Baoris uma, \\'atson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 106. 

 Baoris (Parnara) uma, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. 



Imago. — Female. Upperside, both wings rich dark glossy brown, the base clothed 

 with somewhat long greenish-ochreous setae. Cilia ochreous-brown. Forewhig with a 

 spot iu the discoidal cell divided in the middle by a fold of the wing, its upper portion 

 lengthened, inwardly sharply pointed ; three increasing conjoined sub-apical spots, the 

 posterior one nearly twice as large as the other two taken together, a quadrate spot 

 near the middle of the second median interspace, and a larger one in the first median 

 interspace placed exactly midway between the spot in the second median interspace 

 and the lower portion of the cell spot, its outer edge highly excavated, its inner edge 

 correspondingly rounded — all these spots shining translucent ochreous. Underside, both 

 wings brown, strongly washed with vinous. Forewing with the spots as above, but 

 white instead of ochreous, the spot in the cell entire. Hindwing with a lengthened 

 sub-costal broad streak posteriorly bounded by the sub-costal nervure and second sub- 

 costal nervule ; a discal recurved transverse series of six quadrate .spots, of which the 

 two below the posterior end of the sub-costal streak are the smallest, a similar but 

 somewhat suffused spot near the base of the wing, the streak and spots all pure silvery ; 

 head and body coucolorous with the wings above ; palpi and sternum pale ochreous 

 beneath, rest of body and legs concolorous with the wings beneath. 



A single specimen was obtained in April, 1887, in the Karen Hills by the native 

 collector attached to the Phayre Museum, Piangoon, and I am indebted to Mr. B. Noble 

 for the opportunity of describing it. It is a remarkable species, with no near Indian 

 ally, but appears to belong to the same group as the Hesperia ornata of Felder from 

 Buitenzorg, Java, a species which has the spots of the forewing on the underside 

 smaller, and a double series of spots on the hindwing as shown in the figure, 

 (de Niceville.) 



