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loiiig as in the male. Underside as in the male. Forewlng with the spots as above, 

 the pale space above the hinder margin larger and paler. Hindwing with the cell dots 

 larger and the spot at the end of the pale discal fascia in the form of a short, rather 

 prominent streak. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 2 to 2^% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, China. 



Distribution. — The types in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, are from Sikkim ; 

 de Niceville records it also from the Khasia Hills and from Cachar. We have received 

 several examples of both sexes from the Khasia and Jaintia Hills, from which our 

 figures and descriptions are taken. 



HASORA BADRA. 

 Plate 751, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, $ , Ic, d, larva and pupa. 



Goniloba hadra, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 245, pi. 7, figs. 3, .3a, larva and pupa (1857) ; id. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 778. 



Hesperia hadra, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 58. 



Hasora hadra, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 159, pi. 65, figs. 4, 4a (1881). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1881, p. 32. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, id. 1886, p. 378. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1888, p. 441. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 26; id. Hasp. Ind. p. 12 

 (1891). Fergusson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 446. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 329. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 127. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 187 

 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 437, and x. 1896, p. 683. Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 29. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 298. Friihstorfer, Iris, 

 1911, p. 65. 



Hasora hadra madatta, Friihstorfer, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ochreous-brown, base of both wings darker brown. 

 Forewing with three minute conjugated spots near the costa one-fourth from the apex, 

 sometimes entirely absent. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of both 'wings grey. 

 Underside paler ochreous-brown, with a slight purplish tint. Forewing with a dark 

 patch before the middle, a dark broad fascia from the costa, the outer margin narrowly 

 brown, leaving a pale submarginal shade, the hinder marginal space pale ochreous- 

 grey, with this colour running up a short distance in the middle. Hindwing somewhat 

 darker than the forewing, a broad discal fascia slightly paler than the ground colour, 

 with an ochreous-white short streak at its lower end and a suffused blackish patch 

 covering the anal lobe, a round ochreous white spot at the end of the cell. 



Female. Upperside darker than the male. Forewing with the basal third covered 

 with ochreous-brown hairs, three subapical ochreous, semi-hyaline spots, and three large 

 quadrate spots as in H. anura, the outer one as quadrate as the others and smaller, all 

 three with irregular sides. Hindwing. Upperside with the basal and abdominal third 

 covered with ochreous-brown hairs, otherwise without markings. Underside much 

 darker coloured than in the male. Forewing with the dark fasciae as in the male, the 



