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absent, in one example there are two of these lower dots on the right wing and none 

 on the left; a sub-quadrate, outwardly oblique spot at the lower end of the cell, and a 

 similar spot below it, a little inwards in the next lower interspace. Ilindbcing as in the 

 male. Underside like the underside of the male, the spots on the forewing as they 

 are on the upperside, but more ochreous in colour, the lowest spot with an ochreous- 

 whitish splash below it. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 2 to 2-^0 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Distribution. — The types from Cachar are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. We 

 have received several examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills. 



HASORA CHABRONA. 



Plate 751, figs. 3, (J , 3a, $ , 3b, $ . 



Tsmene chahrona, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 56 (1884), (unpublished plate. No. 1590). 



Hasora chahrona, de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 187 (1894) ; id. Joum. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. ix. 1895, p. 406. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 553. Watson, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. x. 1896, p. 683. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 27 

 (larva and pupa). Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 300. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, 

 p. 34, pi. 3, fig. 2 (plate numbered II. by mistake). Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1910, 

 p. 388. 



Hasora (Parata) chahrona, Aitken and Comber, Joui'n. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. 1903, p. 52. 



Hasora moetissima chahrona, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 69. 



Ismene chromus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville (nee Cramer), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 254. 



Hasora vitta, Distant (nee Butler), Rhop. Malayana, p. 375, pi. 35, fig. 4, ^ (1886). Semper, Rhop. 

 Philipp. p. 291 (1892). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 329. J. J. Walker, id. 1895, 

 p. 473. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, dark olive-brown. Forewing with some brown hairs 

 at the base, a small ochreous-white semi-hyaline sub-apical dot or small spot, a 

 similar spot in the second median interspace, a little before its middle, and sometimes 

 another similar spot inwards in the next lower interspace ; in one or two examples one 

 wing has both spots and tlie other only one. Hindwiiu/ without markings, the base 

 and abdominal area with some brown hairs in fresh specimens. Cilia of both wings 

 greyish-white, with brown base. Underside pale brown. Forewing with the hinder 

 marginal space near the hinder angle somewhat paler than the rest of the wing, a 

 dark shade through the middle of the wing, from the base to the disc, extending 

 upwards to the costa, the small spots as above all within the shade. Hindwing with 

 a purplish tint, a narrow white band across it, in an even inward curve, its inner edge 

 even, its outer edge slightly suffused, extending to the anal angle, broken just before 

 its end by the upper side of the large anal black patch ; the base of the wing and an 

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