258 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Distribution. — The type came from Sarawak. Within our limits it has been 

 recorded by Elwes from the Ruby Mines and the Naga Hills. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Parata celeenus, Papilio celsemis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 393, figs. A, B (1782). Hasora (Parata) 



cela?nus, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 189-5, p. 554. Synonym, Ismene 



salango, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1885, p. 232 (unpublished plate, No. 1592). Habitat, Malacca, 



Sumatra, Am, Amboina. 



Parata schonherr, Hesperia, Schonhen-, Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 742 (1823). Habitat, Java. 



Parata gentiana, Ismene gentiana, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. iii. p. 527, pi. 72, figs. 18, 19 (1867). 



Parata gentiana. Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 293 (1892). Habitat, Philippines. 

 Parata saida, Ismene saida, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. Ismene, pi. i. fig. 5, J (1867). Hasora 



schonherr saida, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 75. Habitat, Philippines. 

 Parata liiirgeri, Hasora biirgeri, Ribbe, Iris, 1889, p. 73. Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Parata atienuata, Ismene attenuata, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 137. Synonym, Hasora meala, 

 Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1907, p. 437; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 35, pi. 2, fig. 6 

 (numbered I. by mistake). Habitat, Celebes. 

 Parata leucospila, Ismene leucospila, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. 79. Hasora leucospila, 



Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Minahassa, Celebes. 

 Parata umbrina, Ismene umbrina, Mabille, I.e. Synonym, Hasora habroa, Swinhoe, Aain. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 1907, p. 436 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 37, pi. 2, fig. 4, $. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Parata viracana, Hasora alexis viracana, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 70. Habitat, Formosa. 

 Parata padma, Hasora malayana padma, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 73. Habitat, Palawan, Philippines. 

 Parata cridatta, Hasora schonherr cridatta, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 75. Habitat, Nias. 

 Parata parnia, Hasora leucospila parnia, Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Kina Balu Borneo. 

 Parata fenestrata, Hasora fenestarata, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 77. Habitat, Minahassa, Celebes. 



Genus BADAMIA. 



Badumia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 156 (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 3 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1893, p. 128; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 436. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 

 p. 306. 



Foreimng, vein 12 ends on costa, before the upper end of cell. 6 from close to 

 upper end of discocellulars, 5 from the middle ; upper discocellular minute, middle and 

 lower sub-equal, and in an outwardly oblique straight line ; cell about half the length 

 of the costa ; vein 3 emitted from about one-third before the lower end, 2 from one- 

 third from the base, both somewhat curved ; wing narrow, elongated, costa arched at 

 base, apex sub-acute, outer margin very oblique, and somewhat convex below the apex, 

 liinder angle obtuse, barely pronounced, hinder margin nearly straight, about as long 

 as the outer margin. Hindwing, vein 7 emitted one-fourth before upper end of cell, 

 5 from the middle of discocellulars, well developed, curved at its base, middle disco- 

 cellular outwardly oblique, the lower slightly inwardly oblique ; vein 3 emitted at 



