252 LEPinOPTEEA INDICA. 



VenatioB similar to that of Hasora. Forewing narrower, outer margin shorter 

 than the hinder margin, not of equal length as in Hasora ; the male with an inwardly 

 oblique glandular streak of laxly raised scales below the cell ; the base of the wing 

 with long hairs often entirely hiding the streak. Hindwlng less produced hindwards, 

 lobe shorter and somewhat angular. Antennae more slender. 



Type, Pajyilio chromus, Cramer = Papilio alexis, Fabricius. 



PAEATA SIMPLICISSIMA. 



Plate 752, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, $ . 



Ismene simplicisstma, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. xxv. ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 265. 



Parata simplicissima, Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 292 (1892). 



Hasora (Parata) simplicissima, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 405, pi. Q. 



tip;. 62, (J , 63, 9 . de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 553. 

 Hasora simplicissima, Ehves, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 299. Swinhoe (part), id. 1908, p. 34. 



Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 67. 

 Ismene celseniis, Pagenstecker (nee Cramer), in Kiikenthal, Zool. Erg. 1897, p. 423. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, hair-brown, with a chocolate tint, without markings. 

 Underside paler brown, wdth an ochreous-chocolate tint. Forewing with a discal shade 

 of darker colour from the costa to vein 2, the outer margin also narrowly dark. 

 Ilindwing with a similar broad discal shade and outer margin ; anal lobe black, a dull 

 obscure ochreous spot above it, indications of a pale spot at the end of the cell. 

 Cilia of both wings grey, with brown base. Antennae with the shaft grey beneath ; 

 palpi dark ochreous, with some short blackish hairs and blackish bands on the sides. 



Female. Upperside duller brown. Forewing with the basal third and hinder 

 marginal space covered with dull ochreous hairs, two small ochreous sub-apical dots, 

 a quadrate ochreous spot, constricted at its middle, at the end of the cell, a smaller 

 similar spot outside, in the next lower intei'space, and a larger similar spot below them, 

 the three in a triangular form and rather close together. Ilindwing with more than 

 the basal two-thirds covered with dull ochreous hairs, leaving the apex broadly and 

 the costa and outer margin decreasingly dark brown. Underside much paler than it 

 is in the male, both wings with similar fascise. Forewing with the hinder marginal 

 area broadly pale, whitish, the ochreous spots as above. Ilindwing as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^\ to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Philippines, Burma. Tonkin. 



DiSTRiBUTiOiSr. — A common form in the Islands ; we have it from Java and from 

 Tonkin ; de Niceville records it from the Yanzalin Valley, Tenasserim. 



