300 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWARDS: 



Hasora m^estissima. 



Ismene mastissima, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. xxv ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. 263 ; 

 Staudinger, Iris, ii. p. 136 (1889). 



Hab. Mindanao (Semper) ; Palawan (Platen, fide Stgr.); Kina Balu ( Waterstradt). 



Hasora vitta. 

 Hesperia vitta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 498; id. Lep. Ex. pi. lxix. fig. 9; cf. de Niceville 



Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 408. 

 ? Hasora vitta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 329. 



Rob. Sarawak (Low, fide Butler). 



We have never seen a specimen of this species, which is described and figured as 

 without any apical spot on the fore wing. "We have seen a Bornean specimen from 

 Staudinger's collection which has this spot, which is constant in chabrona from all 

 localities. There is no other character by which we can distinguish vitta, Butler, as 

 described, and we are therefore unable to say whether it is a good species confined to 

 Borneo, as de Niceville suggests, or a mere aberration of chabrona. 



! Hasora chabrona. 



Ismene chabrona, PJotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 56 (1884) . 



Hasora vitta, Distant (nee Butl.), Rhop. Mai. p. 375, pi. xxxv. fig. 4, tf (1886) ; Semper, Schmett. 



Philipp. p. 291 (1892), sec. spec. comm. 

 Hasora chabrona, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 406. 



Hab. Sikkim (Mbller); Assam, E. Pegu (Loherty); Andamans (de Eoepstorff'); 

 Java (Piepers) ; Kina Balu (Waterstradt). 



Hasora coulteri. 



Hasora coulteri, Wood-Mason & de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 378, pi. xviii. 

 figs. 8 3, 8 a, 8 b $ ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 14 (1891); de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. 1895, pp. 407, 408. 



We have not seen this species. It " is very closely allied to //. chabrona ; the females 

 of the two species may be distinguished on the underside of the hind wing by both 

 the edges of the discal white band being sharply defined in H. coulteri, much blurred 

 in H. chabrona. The female of H. coulteri possesses the subapical spot to the fore 

 wing, which is lacking in the male, and by the absence of which, together with the 

 discal band, it is distinguished from the same sex of H. chabrona." The male has not 

 the male mark as in chromus, the upperside of the fore wing being fi without spots, 

 but with three ill-defined discal bands composed of modified scales arranged along each 

 side of the submedian nervure, and of the first and second median nervules, and 

 probably concealed by seta? in the living insect." 



Hab. Silcuri, Cachar (Wood-Mason & de Niceville), 



