254 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



Eesperia alexis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 336 (1794). Aurivillius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, p. 150 



Parata alexis, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soo. 1893, p. 330. 



Hasora alexis, Ehves, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 441. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 70. 



Papilio chromus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 284, fig. E, $ (1782). 



Goniloha chromus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 777. 



Ismene chromus, Moore, I.e. 1877, p. 593. Swinhoe, id. 1884, p. 512. 



Ismene (Parata) chromus, de Rhe-PhUipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 602. 



Parata chromus, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 161, pi. 65, figs, la, b (1881). de Niceville, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 52. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 372. 



Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 16 (1891) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 54. Swinhoe, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1893, p, 330. de Ehe-PhUipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. 1902, p. 493. Nurse, 



id. p. 513. Hannyngton, id. xx. 1910, p. 370. 

 Hasora chromus, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 26. Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 



p. 537. Fergusson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 447. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 



p. 128. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 426; id. idem, vui. 1894, p. 423. 



Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 638, pi. 39, fig. 7 var. (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. X. 1896, p. 683. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 26, pi. 7, fig. 2 (larva and pupa). 



Evans, id. xx. 1910, p. 389. Elwes (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 301, pi. 27, figs. 93, 93a 



(genitalia). 

 Easora (Parata) chromus, Aitken and Comber, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. 1903, p. 52. 



de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 187 (1894). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olive-brown, witli a vinaceous tint, the base of 

 forewing and the basal and abdominal third of hindwing covered with ochreous-brown 

 hairs. Foreiolng with the outer margin paler tlian the rest of the wing. Hindwing 

 with the apex broadly dark brown, as dark as the interior portion of the forewing ; 

 abdominal fold pale, no markings on either wing. Cilia brown, with pale tips. 

 Underside pale purplish-brown. Forewing with a very broad dark shade in the 

 middle, from the base to the disc, expanding outwards, its upper outer end extended 

 to the costa, hinder marginal area narrowly pale. Hindiving with the abdominal fold 

 pale, a narrow, nearly straight, discal, bluish-white band, with irregular edges, from 

 the costa to the end of the abdominal margin, broken by the upperside of the large 

 uual black patch, a rather prominent white auteciliary line from the outer side of the 

 anal patch which becomes indistinct upwards before reaching the apex, the ground 

 colour of both wings dull ; palpi dull ochreous, with a few short black hairs and a black 

 thin l)and on each side, abdomen dull ochreous below. 



Female. Upperside more evenly coloured than the male and browner, the base 

 of the forewing and basal and abdominal third of the hindwing with the hairs a little 

 more ochreous. Forewing with a very minute ochreous-white sub-apical dot, and two 

 larger discal spots, one at the lower end of the cell and the other inwards in the next 

 lower interspace. Hindwing without markings, the abdominal fold usually paler than 

 it is in the male. Underside as in the male, but the semi-hyaline spots of the forewing 

 as on the upperside, and the hinder marginal space whiter. 



