278 MESSES. H. J. EWES AND JAMES EDWARDS : 



! Parnara moolata. (Plate XXVI. figs. 86, a, b, c.) 



Hesperia moolata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 843. 



Pamphila dravida, Mabille, Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 242 (1878). 



Baoris moolata, Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 379, pi. xsxiv. fig. 10, 6 (1886). 



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



Parnara cahira, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 298, sec. spec. comm. (nee Moore). 



Caltoris onchisa, $, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 323, sec. spec. typ. 



Hab. Khasia {Hamilton) ; Perak, Pulo Laut (Doherty) ; West Java (coll. Snellen) ; 

 Philippines (Semper) ; Palawan, Kina Balu, Borneo (Staudinger) ; Selesseh, Sumatra 

 (in coll. Rothschild). 



! Parnara aurociliata, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 23, s ; Plate XXVI. figs. 87, a, b, c.) 



A species at once distinguished by its bright yellow fringes. 



cf . Upperside deep warm brown : fore wing above with seven yellowish-white hyaline 

 spots — two in the cell, of which the upper is the smaller, one in each of cells 2, 3, 4, 6, 

 and 7, the three last-named punctiform, and a small yellowish-white spot next vein 1 a 

 near the middle. Underside clear rich brown, somewhat darker in the basal region of 

 the fore wing ; pale spots as on the upperside, but the spot in cell 1 a suffused. Fringes 

 bright chrome-yellow, brown next cell 7 of the fore wing and cells 4-7 of the hind 

 wing, the short scales brown throughout. The punctiform hyaline spots on the fore 

 wing have a tendency to disappear. 



Expanse 45-48 mm. 



Hab. Sikkim (Moller). Type in coll. Elwes. 



We separate this species from P. pagana and P. kumara with some doubt, but the 

 genitalia are different from those of both those species. 



! Parnara cahira. (Plate XXI. fig. 25, 2 ; Plate XXVII. figs. 91, a, b, c.) 



Hesperia cahira, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 593, pi. lviii. fig. 8. 

 Parnara cahira, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 43. 



Moore's figure above cited does not agree with his description. It is said by 

 Wood-Mason and de Niceville (Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1881, p. 258) that the female of 

 oceia, Hew., was described by Moore as that of his cahira; but it does not appear 

 certain that these authors examined the type of cahira. 



Hab. East Pegu (Doherty) ; Andamans (de Roepstorff); Nias (Modigliani) ; China 

 (fide Staudinger). 



Mr. de Niceville ("List of the Butterflies of Sumatra," Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1895, 

 p. 550) states that he has from Sumatra specimens which agree with Moore's figure 

 and description of cahira, also specimens which agree with Moore's description and 



