ISMENEIN^. 255 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 2 inches. 



Larva. — Head large for the size of the insect, nearly quite square, covered with 

 longish white hairs, yellow or red-brown in colour, when yellow it has a black spot 

 around the eyes (at the base of each lobe) ; a broad collar on segment 2, reaching from 

 spiracle to spiracle ; anal segment slightly sloping, rounded at the extremity, with a 

 shiny black dorsal patch on it ; body sparsely covered with longish, erect, white hairs ; 

 colour more or less dark mauve, variable, suffused dorsally with light yellow ; a dorsal 

 dark mauve line, an obsolescent similar lateral line, and a broad marginal yellowish 

 band bordered above and below with white ; abdomen greenish-yellow ; there may be 

 a black spot on segments 5 to 9, that on segment 5 rarely being wanting. Surface 

 oily looking. Length, 31 mm. 



Pupa, stout, very similar to the foregoing [Bibasis sena), light green in colour, 

 without markings, covered with a white powder. 



Habits. — Larva makes a lax cell by folding a leaf longitudinally, which it does 

 not line with silk ; is very moth-like in its younger s.tages, and pupates in the cell, 

 attached by tail and a body band. 



This is one of the commonest butterflies with us, occurring everywhere. Its 

 flight is very quick ; it is fond of the vicinity of water, where it may be captured, 

 laying its eggs on the young shoots and leaves of Pongamia glabra, Vent. It is 

 difiicult to distinguish on the wing from either of the two following {Parata butler i, 

 Aurivillius, and Hasora chabrona, Plotz). (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Java, Borneo, Pulo Laut, China, Ceylon, India, Burma, Andamans. 



DiSTRiBUTioisr. — Common in the Islands and all over India, Ceylon and Burma • 

 it has been recorded from many localities. 



Note. — Aurivillius, who examined the Fabrician type, states : * " The type which 

 is drawn with the description given above and with the words 'H. alexia, ex Museum 

 Tottianum,' corresponds almost with Cramer's and Moore's figures of Hasora chromus, 

 and moreover is not the species which was named H. alexis by Butler. Jones's figures 

 of the species in foreign museums are of no consequence. //. alexis, Butler (nee 

 Fabricius) I name //. butleri." 



PARATA BUTLERI. 



Plate 753, figs. 1, <?, la, ? , lb, <?. 



Hesjieria hutleri, Aurivillius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, p. 150. 



Hasora hutleri, Friihstorfei", Iris, 1911, p. 70. 



Hesperia alexis, Butler (neo Fabricius), Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 269, pi. 3, fig. 1, ^ (1869); 



id. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1870, p. 58. 

 Parata alexis, Moore (nee Fabricius), Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 161, pi. 65, figs. 2a, b (1881). Swinhoe, Proc. 



• Ent. Tidsk. 1897, p. 150. 



