166 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



hair covering a patch of raised scales at end of the cell. Body robust, thorax very 

 broad ; club of antennas somewhat lengthened. 

 Type, B. Oceia {Res2:)eria Oceia, Hewits.). 



BAORIS PENICILLATA. 



Allied to B. scopulifera. Upperside dark olive-brown. Male : forewing with 

 four semi-diaphanous yellow spots, two being apical and two discal, which are also 

 smaller : hindwing with a black tuft. Underside of forewing marked as on upperside, 

 and with a glossy purple space on hind margin enclosing a small brown patch of 

 raised scales. 



Expanse If inch. 



" Low country. Larva feeds on the Sugar-cane leaf " (Mackioood). 



BAORIS KITMARA (Plate 69, Fig. 2, 2a). 



Hesperia Kumara, Moore, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 255 (1857) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 

 p. 687, ?. 



Upperside dark olive-brown. Male : forewing with a transverse discal series of 

 five semi-diaphanous yellow spots from costa before the apex. Cilia pale brownish- 

 yellow. Female : forewing with seven discal spots. LTnderside deep ochreous- 

 brown : forewing marked as above : hindwing with an indistinct yellow discal spot 

 between the two lower median veins. Palpi and body brown ; tarsi ochreous. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



"Kandy" {Wade). 



BAORIS SERIATA (Plate 69, Fig. 4, 4a). 

 Hesperia seriata, Moore,' Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 688. 

 Allied to but smaller than B. Kumara. Male differs from the same sex of that 

 species in the discal row of spots being slightly smaller and less angular in shape, 

 and in having an additional lower small spot. Female also with smaller and less 

 angular spots. Underside greenish-bro'mi : forewing marked as above, the lowest 

 spot being suffused. 



Expanse, 2 If, 5 If inch. 



Genus PARNARA. 



This genus comprises a group of species which have been variously referred to 

 Eesperia, Pamphila, and Gegenes. They are similar in form of wings, venation, and 

 antennas, to Chapra, but the males have no oblique glandular streak on the forewing. 



Ty2)e, P. guttata.* 



* Endamus guttatus, Bremer (Menetrics, Catal. Mus. Petrop. i. pi. 5, f. 4). 



