328 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Parnara mangala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 261. Butler, id. 1886, p. 377. Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 55. 

 Eesperia knlnnlus, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxix. p. 227 (188.^), unpublished plate No. 1421. 

 Parnara hada, Doherty (uec Moore), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 139. 



Imago. — Male. Upper.side dark-brown, with an oclireous tint. Forewing with the 

 basal half of the interspaces with dull ochreous, hair-like setse, with eight semi- 

 diaphanous ochreous-white spots of moderate size, two in the cell, well within its end, 

 well separated, one above the other, the others in a continuous series, commencing 

 with three sub-apical spots in a straight Hue, the uppermost one often absent ; a small 

 similar-sized spot immediately below them, a larger spot in the second median inter- 

 space and a much larger and somewhat quadrate spot in the first median interspace, 

 the three in an inwardly oblique line. Hindwing with all but the outer portion of the 

 wing covered with dull ochreous hairs, four spots in a very oblique line in the disc, 

 two in interspace 4 and one in each of the median interspaces. Cilia of both wings 

 rather bright ochreous-white, with a brown base. Underside paler, with an ochreous- 

 pinkish tint, all the veins of both wings, all but the inner portion of the forewing and 

 the entire surface of the hindwing, covered with minute dull ochreous scales, the spots 

 as on the upperside, the spots on the hindwing somewhat larger than they are on the 

 upperside, somewhat quadrate in shape and edged with blackish. Antennae black, 

 minutely dotted with white on the underside, the club smeared with white and dull 

 red at the tip ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the wings, ou the underside the 

 palpi and pectus with ochreous and white hairs, and some similar but duller-coloured 

 hairs on the thorax and abdomen. \ 



Female paler than the male, on the underside usually very much paler, markings 

 similar, all the spots much larger, somewhat suffused, a small additional spot against the 

 sub-median vein of the forewing, the discal spots on the hindwing much larger, some- 

 what elongate and very prominent and on the underside there is a small spot in the 

 cell, near its end. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ 1^^ to lj% inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, China, Japan, Corea. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — The type came from China ; we have examples from China, 

 Japan, Corea, Ranikhet, Sikkim, and the Khasia Hills ; the type of mangala is marked 

 Bengal, as so many of Moore's types are ; nearly all of these really came from Assam 

 and Sikkim; Moore also records it from Hainan and. the Kangra Valley, Butler from 

 Murree, Thundiani and Hassan Abdul, all iu the N.W. Himalayas, de Rhe-Philipe 

 from Masuri, Leslie and Evans from Chitral, Hannyngton from Kumaon, Watson from 

 the Chin Hills ; it does not appear to occur anywhere in Southern India or Ceylon. 



