A REVISION OF THE ORIENTAL HESPERIIDJS. 299 



"Description: Male. Upperside both wings as in H. anura, mihi. Fore wing 

 lacking the subapical yellow dot (this, however, is a trivial character). Underside 

 both wings dull brown, not slightly glossed with purple as in H. anura, or strongly so 

 as in H. badra, Moore. Hind wing with a small anal lobe bearing a black patch, in 

 H. anura there is no black patch or anal lobe, in //. badra both are large. This 

 species is probably variable with regard to the presence or absence of a white or 

 greyish spot in the cell of the hind wing on the underside, and a white or greyish 

 streak above the anal angle, as in the two allied species above named ; Mr. Distant 

 describing a ' var.' of this species as lacking these characters. I have not figured this 

 species, as Mr. Distant has done so in his ' Rhopalocera Malayana.' I have described 

 it from a single male from Perak in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 which Mr. Distant ticketed ' Hasora badra' Moore (var.)." 



This is, to us, a doubtful species, as the description is contradictory. First 

 we read, " upperside both wings as in //. anura" and then a few lines afterwards 

 " hind wing with a small anal lobe bearing a black patch, in H. anura there is no 

 black patch or anal lobe." It is true that the species is said to be represented by 

 Distant's figure, but there is no more anal lobe in that figure than in if. anura (of 

 which we have specimens), and certainly no black patch near the tornus of the hind 

 wing below. 



! Hasora cel^nus. 



Papilio celcenus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 393, A, B. 



Hasora celcenus, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1895, p. 554. 



Hab. Amboina, Sumatra {fide de Niceville). 

 ! Hasora simplicissima. 



Ismene simplicissima, Mabille, Ball. Soc. Ent. Fr. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. xxv (1876) ; Staudinger, Iris, ii. 



p. 138 (1889). 

 Hasora simplicissima, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 405, pi. Q. 



figs. 62 d, 63 $. 

 Ismene philetas, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 56 (1884). 

 Parata simplicissima, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 292 (1892). 



Hab. Philippines {Semper); Palawan {Platen, fide Stiff.); Burmah, Sumatra {fide de 

 Niceville) ; Bali {Doherty). 



! Hasora violacea. 



Ismene violaceus, Staudinger, MS. ? 



On the upperside the female of this species is brown with a violet-purple shade, which 

 is strongest in the apical region of the fore wing and on the lobe of the hind wing. 

 This purple shade is absent or but faintly indicated in the male. 



Hab. Amboina {coll. Stgr.). 



