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Hasora cheomus. (Plate XXVII. figs. 93, 93 a.) 



Papilio chromus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. cclxxxiv. fig. E, 3 (1782). 



Ismene malayana, Felder, Wien. ent. Mem. iv. p. 401 (1860) ; id. Reise Nov., Lep. iii. pi. lxxii. fig. 15 



(1866). 

 Parata chromus, Moore, Lep. Cey. i. p. 161, pi. lxv. figs. 1 a, b (1881) ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 16 



(1891). 

 Parata malayana, Watson, t. c. p. 18. 



Parata alexis, Moore, 1. c. figs. 2 a, 2b; Watson, t. c. p. 17. 

 Hasora chromus, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 638, pi. xxxix. fig. 7 (1894). 



This species varies much in size ; the smallest specimen I have expands 39 rnillim. The 

 pale band on the hind wing below varies in width and shape ; its inner edge is always 

 straight, but its outer edge may be either straight, when the band is narrow (about 

 1 mm. wide or a mere line), or sinuate, when the band is about 3 mm. wide in 

 its widest part. In Sikkim specimens the brown ground-colour of the hind wing 

 below is washed with metallic purple inclining to green, and in specimens from the 

 Andamans the green colour predominates over the purple, except in the space beyond 

 the pale band (these latter seem to be the true malayana, Feld.) ; in some specimens 

 the greenish-purple colour is scarcely visible in the space beyond the pale band ; these 

 differences, however, are not correlated with differences in locality and cannot usefully 

 be made the basis for grouping specimens. 



Hah. Sikkim (Moller) ; Khasia (Elwes) ; Burmah (Loherty) ; Andamans (de Boep- 

 storff) ; Ceylon, Bangalore (Minchin) ; Pulo Laut (Doherty) ; Java (Piepers). 



! Hasora inermis, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 16 ; Plate XXVII. figs. 94, 94 a.) 



This species closely resembles H. chromus, from which it differs by its larger size 

 and the different form of the male genitalia. The male has the sex-mark on the fore 

 wing above and wants the pale point in cell 6 of that wing ; the female resembles 

 that sex of H. chabrona in having on the fore wing a somewhat crescent-shaped 

 whitish hyaline spot in each of cells 2 and 3, and a whitish point near the basal third 

 of cell 6. 



Expanse 46-50 mm. 



Hah. Liu Kiu Islands (Fryer). 



Described from one pair in coll. Elwes. The species can only be distinguished with 

 certainty by the male genitalia. 



Hasora proximata. 



Ismene proximata, Staudinger, Ii'is, ii. p. 137 (1889). 



Hasora proximata, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 291, pi. xlix. fig. 6, 2 (1892). 



Hah. Mindanao (Semper); Palawan, Celebes (Platen, fide Stgr.). 



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