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INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Parnara fortunei, Hesperia fortunei, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 489 (1862); id. Reise, 



Nov. Lep. pi. 72, fig. 11 (1866). Habitat, Shanghai. 

 Parnara cinnara, Hesperia cinnara, Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 361. Habitat, Formosa. 

 Parnara sifa, Hesperia sifa, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xlvii. p. 96 (1886), unpublished plate No. 1418. 



Habitat, Java. 

 Parnara qniniijera, Hesperia quinigera, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 703. Habitat, Hainan. 

 Parnara ddnddi, Hesperia diindeli, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxix. p. 226 (1885), unpublished plate 



No. 1417. Parnara diindeli, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 25, pi. 2, fig. 18. Habitat, 



Batavia, Java. 

 Parnara ogasawarensis, Matsumura, Annot. Zool. Japonens, p. 13, pi. i. fig. 4 (1906). Habitat, 



Bonin Island. 

 Parnara yanuca, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 55. Habitat, Formosa. 



Genus GEGENES. 



Gegenes, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 107 (1816). Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 104 ; id. 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 286 

 PMloodus, Rambur, Faun. Ent. Andal. ii. p. 308 (1840). 



Forewing, vein 12 very short, ending on co.sta much before end of cell, cell long, 

 nearly two-thirds the length of costa ; upper discocellular very minute, barely distin- 

 guishable, outwardly oblique, middle and lower in an inwardly oblique 

 straight line, the lower very short, vein 5 arising close to 4, 3 from close / 



to lower end of cell, 2 from about one-fourth before the end, wing long and fJ., 



narrow, costa arched near base, then almost straight to apex, which is ,^ 



somewhat acute, outer margin slightly convex, oblique, shorter than Gegenes 



1 1 • 1 • TT- 7 ■ ■ • 1 1 1 1 r- uostradamus. 



thfe hmder margin. Hmdwing, vein 7 emitted shortly before upper 

 end of cell, discocellulars outwardly oblique, faint, vein 5 absent, 3 from close 

 to lower end of cell, 2 from about twice as far from 3 as 3 is from the end ; lower 

 margin of cell slightly bent upwards at its end ; costa highly arclied at its base, 

 apex rounded, but well pronounced, outer margin evenly convex, slightly emarginate 

 between veins 2 and lb. Antennpe short, less than half the length of costa of fore- 

 wing, club robust, with a very short crook ; palpi with the second joint densely scaled, 

 third joint short, porrect, nearly hidden ; hind tibiaj with two pairs of spurs ; no 

 secondary sexual characters. 



Type, Papilio uostradamus, Fabricius. 



