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Parnara bipunctata, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 5, a .) 



a . Upperside : fore wing brown, heavily clothed with ochreous hair-scales towards 

 the base ; six sordid whitish hyaline spots — two remote in the cell, one large, pentagonal, 

 in cell 2, one, smaller and subquadrate, in cell 3, and one, minute and punctiform, in 

 each of cells 6 and 7 ; an elongate triangular yellow spot next vein 1 a beyond the 

 middle : hind wing ochreous by reason of the hair-scales ; the costa brown as far as 

 vein 6, and the termen narrowly and suffusedly brown ; two pale points on the disc, one 

 near the middle of each of cells 2 and 3. Underside ochreous green, disc of the fore 

 wing brown : fore wing with the pale spot next vein 1 a larger and more suffused than 

 on the upperside, the other spots as on the upperside ; hind wing with the two 

 pale points as on the upperside. Fringes brown, becoming ochreous grey towards 

 the tornus of each wing. Antennee blackish, spotted with yellowish on the underside ; 

 club yellowish beneath. Second joint of palpi clothed with ochreous and black hairs 

 intermixed. Body and legs ochreous brown. 



Expanse 36J mm. 



Hab. Batchian. 



Described from one specimen ex coll. Staudinger. 



At first sight this species bears some resemblance to P. contigua, Mab., from which, 

 however, it is abundantly distinct. 



! Parnara colaca. (Plate XXVI. fig. 81.) 



Hesperia colaca, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 594, pi. lviii. fig. 7. 



Parnara colaca, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 446, fig. 1; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 36 



(1891). 

 Parnara cingala, Moore, Lep. Cey. i. p. 167, pi. lxx. figs. 3 a, 3 b (1881). 



Hab. Sikkim (M'dller) ; Ranchi (Irvine) ; Bangalore (Minchin) ; Trichinopoly 

 (Castets) ; Andamans, Bali (Doherty) ; Nias (Modigliani) ; Ceylon (fide Moore). 



! Parnara bevani. (Plate XXVI. fig. 82.) 



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



Parnara beavani, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 447, fig. 2. 



Parnara bevani, Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 36 (1891). 



Parnara thyone, Leech, Butt. China &c. p. 610, pi. xlii. fig. 4, $ (1894). 



A specimen of P. thyone from Moupin, presented by Mr. Leech, seems inseparable 

 from P. bevani. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas (Hocking, Young) ; Sikkim, Khasias, Bombay (Elwes) ; 

 Nagas (Doherty) ; Kina Balu (Water stradt, in coll. Stgr.) ; Moupin, E. Tibet 

 (Kricheldorf). 



