276 MESSRS. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWARDS: 



Pamphila mencia, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 52 (1877). 

 Parnara mencia, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 607, pi. xlii. fig. 14, c? (1894). 



This seems to be about the most widely distributed and generally common species in 

 Asia, extending from Syria to the Liukiu Islands and Sambawa. It occurs all over 

 India from Kashmir to Malabar, and from Bombay to Pegu and the Malay Peninsula. 

 In addition to the above-named localities, I have it from Borneo, Bali, Japan, and China ; 

 and Semper states that it is generally distributed in the Philippines. Holland also 

 records it, as Baoris chaya, from Hainan. 



! Parnara nascens. 



Parnara nascens, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 614, pi. xlii. fig. 8, £ (1894). 



Differs from sinensis, Mab., in the following particulars: — Upperside darker 

 brown, the pale spots less strongly developed, one only in cell of fore wing, that 

 in the upper half, sex-mark of the male interrupted in the middle; underside dark 

 brownish green. 



Hab. Central China {Pratt). 



! Parnara philippina. (Plate XXI. figs. 4 6 , 8 ? ; Plate XXVI. figs. 85, a, b, c.) 



Cobalus philippina, Herrich-Schaft'er, Prod. Syst. Lep. iii. p. 81 (1869). 



Hesperia seriata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 688. 



? Baoris seriata, Moore, Lep. Cey. i. p. 166, pi. lxix. figs. 4, 4 a (1881). 



Parnara seriata, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 42 (1891). 



Parnara philippina, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 298, pi. xlix. fig. 12, $ (1892). 



The type of Baoris seriata, Moore, in the British Museum from Ceylon is a female; 

 the wide range of the species suggests that it occurs in other localities, but we know it 

 only from those here mentioned. Though Semper has identified P. philippina, H.-S., 

 with P. seriata, Moore, yet we think that this identification must remain somewhat 

 uncertain, and we have not been able to compare the Eastern specimens here treated 

 of with the type. 



Hab. Ceylon (in Brit. M u s.) N. Canara (Aitken) ; Philippines (Semper) ; Amboina 

 (Stc/r.) ; Palawan (fide Stgr.) . Sangir, Talaut (Boherty). 



! Parnara kumara. (Plate XXVII. figs. 90, a, b, c.) 



Hesperia kumara, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 687. 



Baoris kumara, Moore, Lep. Cey. i. p. 166, pi. lxix. figs. 2, 2 a (1881). 



Parnara kumara, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 41 (1891). 



Hab. Kina Balu, Borneo, Java (Stan dinger) ; Sikkim (Mbller) ; Nilgiris (Hampson) ; 

 Arjuno, Java (Boherty). 



