IIESPERIID^. !o9 



from near end of the cell, lower at one-half before the end; antennse much slenderer 

 throughout. 



Type, C. Benjamini. 



CHOASPES BENJAMINI (Plate 64, Fig. \,a,h). 



Thymele Benjamini, Gnerin, Delessert's Sonv. Voy. Inde, ii. p. 79, pi. 22, f. 2, 2a (1843). 

 Hesperia Xanthopognn, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 453, pi. 18, f. 1, 2 (1844). 



Male. Upperside glossy bluish-purple olive-brown, the basal area more dis- 

 tinctly olive-brown. Cilia of hindwing and anal lobe broadly ochreous-red. Female 

 deeper olive-brown. Underside glossy, senescent olive-brown, the veins black : 

 forewing with, a broad pale cupreous-brown band on posterior margin : hindwing 

 with, a broad ochreous-red lobular patch with black macular upper border and 

 broad central angular streak. Thorax greyish-olive above, vertex bluish olive, 

 abdomen brown ; palpi and thorax in front, and abdomen beneath, ochreous-red. 



Expanse 2 to 2j inches. 



Larva with broad transverse dorsal black and yellow bands and two rows of 

 white spots along the back ; head, two anal segments and laterally below the bands 

 red ; face black spotted. Pupa pinkish-grey, black spotted. 



" Central Province. Hills 3000 to 5000 feet. Forests. May to November. 

 Shy, but not difficult to capture. Settles on ground ; easily disturbed, but returns 

 to same place " [Hutchison). 



" Dickoya. Not common. The larva rolls itself up in the tip of the leaf on 

 which it feeds, and when it has eaten this leaf it goes to another, and so on till 

 it changes to pupa " (Wade). 



Genus HASORA. 



Differs from Hesperia in the forewing being short, broad, and triangular ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-third, second and third at equal distances between it and 

 end of the cell, fourth halfway between third and the end ; middle median at 

 two-fourths and lower at three-fourths before end . of the cell : hindwing verj short, 

 lengthened hindward ; apex slightly angular, exterior margin slightly convex, lobe 

 somewhat lengthened, abdominal margin long; second subcostal at one-fourth from 

 the base; discocellulars very slender, outwardly oblique, upper shortest, lower 

 slightly concave ; radial from their angle, very slender ; middle median from close 

 to end of the cell, lower at one-half before the end. Thorax stout ; abdomen short. 



Type, H. Badra. 



HASORA BADEA (Plate 65, Fig 4, a, b). 



Goniloba Badra, Moore, C'atal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 245, pi. 7, fig. 3, 3a (1857); Proc. Z.)oI. See. 

 Loud. 1865, p. 778. 



Upperside dark vinous-brown ; base of both wings olive-brown. Male: forewing 



