HESPERIIDuE. 167 



PARNARA NAROOA (Plate 69, Fig. 3 a, h). 

 Hesperia Naruoa, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Loud. 1878, p. 687, pi. 45, f. 4. 



Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown : forewing with two prominent 

 semi-diaphanous yellowish well-separated spots within end of cell, a subapical 

 series of three smaller spots, and an oblique discal series of five spots : hindwing 

 with two very small discal spots in male, three in female. Underside dark olive- 

 brown : forewing marked as above : hindwing with a prominent white spot at upper 

 end of the cell, and a curved discal series of four spots. Body olive-green. 



Expanse, i l-h, 5 lyf inch. 



Alhed to P. contigua, Mabille ; markings similar, but both sexes one-third less 

 in size. 



Larva pale olive-green, delicately speckled with darker green and black dots ; a 

 pale unspeckled upper lateral line ; head black marked. Pupa pale olivaceous-yellow', 

 darker shaded on thorax. 



PARNARA BADA (Plate 70, Fig. 2, 2a). 

 Hesperia Bada, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1878, p. 688. 



Male and female. Upperside olive-brown, base of wings paler ; cilia pale 

 cinereous-brown : forewing with two (in some specimens three) contiguous subapical 

 small white semi-diaphanous spots, and three spots below obliquely on the disc, the 

 upper one smallest and the lowest quadrate : hindwing with a discal irregular linear 

 series of three, or four, white semi-diaphanous spots, more or less indistinct. Under- 

 side greyish-brown ; both wings marked as above, the spots on the hindwing being 

 more prominent. 



Expanse, c? li^, ? 1^ inch. 



" Colombo. Common at all times, about low shrubs in gardens and waste 

 ground. Short flight; easily caught " (iT^iic/tisoTi). 



PARNARA CINGALA (Plate 70, Fig. 3, a, h). 



Allied to P. Bada. Male and female : forewing with two small semi-diaphanous 

 white spots within end of the cell, three subapical and four discal : hindwing with 

 two very indistinct discal spots. Underside paler : forewing marked as above, the 

 lowest discal spot prominent and yellow : hindwing with three prominent spots, the 

 upper one being between subcostals. 



Expanse 1-nr inch. 



Larva very pale olivaceous-blue, with a darker dorsal and a paler lateral 

 longitudinal line ; head yellowish. Feeds on Graminacese. Pupa pale olive-green. 



