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PARATA MALATANA. 

 Plate 752, figs. 2, <? , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 

 Ismene malayana, Felder, Wien Ent. Mon. iv. p. 401 (1860) ; id. Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. pi. 72, fig. 15 



(1866). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1877, p. 593. 

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



Choaspes (?) malayana, Distant, Rliop. Malayana, p. 373, pi. 35, fig. 2 (1886). 

 Parata malayana, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 18 (1891). 

 Hasora malayana, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 128; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist Soo. ix. 1895, 



p. 437. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 72. 

 Hasora (Parata) malayana, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 554. 

 Hasora chromus, Elwes (part). Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 301. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, the basal hairs slightly paler than the 

 ground colour of the wings ; no markings. Cilia brown, with grey tips. Underside 

 not much paler than the upperside. Forewing with a dark, obscure, rather broad 

 discal band from the costa to the submedian vein, the outer and lower half of the 

 wing tinted with chocolate ; the whole costal space above the median vein from the 

 base to the band dark chalybeous, and some pale chalybeous suffusion on the upper 

 outer half of the band, the abdominal space evenly greyish-white. Hindicing with a 

 nearly straight, pure white, discal band, with somewhat uneven edges, broken at its 

 lower end by the upper side of the black anal patch, the entire wing, with the exception 

 of a narrow outer marginal space, dark chalybeous, an anteciliary white thread from the 

 anal patch to the apex of the wing ; the wings proportionately broader than in most 

 of the other species of the genus ; palpi with brown and ochreous .short hairs, white 

 at the sides. 



Female. Upperside duller in colour than the male. Forewing with a semi- 

 hyaline yellowish discal dot in the first median interspace, a little before its middle, 

 on the underside there is usually an additional dot inwards in the next lower inter- 

 space, otherwise above and below it is similar to the male ; in some examples there is 

 another dot below the sub-costal vein just outside the cell, but none of these spots 

 appear to be constant ; in some examples one or the other is absent, sometimes there 

 are no spots visible. 



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



Habitat. — Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines, Sumbawa, Sumba, 

 Timor, Siam, Andamans and Nikobars. 



Distribution. — A common species in the Islands, we have it from various 

 localities, including the Andamans. 



PARATA ALEXIS. 



Plate 752, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, $ , 3c, d, larva and pupa. 

 Papilio alexis, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 533 (1775); id. Spec. Ins. p. 134 (1781); id. Mant. Ins. 

 p. 87 (1787). 



