326 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Chapra menria, Paniphila mencia, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 52. Parnara mencia, 

 Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 607, pi. 42, fig. 14, ^ (1893). Habitat, Shanghai, Kiu-kiang, 

 Ningpo, Japan. 



Chaina nascens, Parnara uascens. Leech, I.e. p. 614, pi. 42, fig. 8, $ (1893). Habitat, Central 

 China. 



Chopra niasica, Chapra mathias niasica, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 50. Habit.at, Nias. 



Genus PARNARA. 



Parnara, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 166 (1881). AVatson, Hasp. Ind. p. 34 (1891); id. (part), Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 105. Leech (part). Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 606 (1893). Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 433. Elwes and Edwards (part), Tran.s. Zool. Soc. 1897, 



p. 270. 

 Baoris, Distant (part), Rhop. Malayana, p. 379 (1886). 



Differs from the genus Chapra in having no secondary sexual character. Autenu* 

 very short, less than half the length of the costa of forewing, shorter than it is in Chapra, 

 the club is also shorter and stouter, the terminal crook minute. 



Type, Eudamus guttata, Bremer and Grey. 



PARNARA CANARAICA. 



Plate 833, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, $. 



Parnara canaraica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 534. "Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 42 (1891). Elwes 



and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 277. 

 Baoris {Parnara) canaraica, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. 

 Baoris canaraica, Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1897, p. 59. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Forewing with ochreous-grey setre 

 on the basal half of the costal space, and some ochreous-grey hairs at the base of the 

 interno-median interspace, and below the sub-median vein ; eight moderate-sized, semi- 

 diaphanous spots ; two in the cell, towards its end, well separated, and placed obliquely 

 one above the other ; the others in a continuous series, three sub-apical, in an outwardly 

 oblique curve, three in an inwardly oblique line, increasing in size hindwards, in inter- 

 spaces 4, 3 and 2, the last somewhat outwardly produced. Hlndwing without markings, 

 all but the outer margin covered with ochreous-grey hairs. Cilia brown, the tips 

 becoming whitish towards the hinder margin of the forewing, and throughout the 

 hindwing. Underside slightly paler than the upperside. Forewing with the hinder 

 marginal space below the first median uervule paler, caused by minute greyish-white 

 scales, the spots as above, an additional, indistinct whitish spot on the sub-median vein 



