1893.] MB, E, Y. AVATSOK ON THE HESPEEIID^. 127 



The present species is represented in the British Museum from 

 Ceylon and Silhet, and it also occurs in Hong Kong. 



CEdipodea is in the British Museum from Java, Borneo, and 

 Macassar. 



2. Genus Hasora. (Plate 11. figs. 1, 2.) 



Hasora, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 159 (1881). 



Type, badra, Moore. 



Parafa, Moore, Lep, Ceyl. vol. i. p. 160 (1881). 



Type, chromus, Moore. 



Antennae : club thickening rather abruptly and gradually tapering 

 to a fine point, bent beyond the thickest portion, usually at about a 

 right angle, but sometimes almost into a hook ; the terminal portion 

 not quite so long as the remainder of the club. Fore wing s inner 

 and outer margins subequal ; cell less than two-thirds the length of 

 costa ; vein 12 reaching costa almost opposite upper angle of cell 

 vein 5 nearer to 6 than to 4 ; upper discocellular minute ; middle 

 and lower discocellulars inwardly oblique and in the same straight 

 line ; vein 3 almost equidistant from base of wing and from end of 

 cell ; vein 2 nearer to base of wing than to vein 3 ; vein 1 distorted 

 downwards near base. Hind wing produ.ced into a lobe ; vein 7 

 slightlj'^ nearer to 6 than to 8 ; discocellulars very faint, outwardlj^ 

 oblique ; vein o well developed, much nearer to 6 than to 4 ; vein 3 

 from just before end of cell ; vein 2 about equidistant from base of 

 wing and from end of cell. Hind tibiae not very densely fringed, 

 and with two pairs of spurs. 



The female differs in vein 3 of the fore wing being three times as 

 far from base of wing as from end of cell. 



The type-species oi Parata differs from the tjpe-species oi Hasora 

 in being provided in the male with an oblique discal stigma on the 

 fore wing, and also in some slight differences in the outline of the 

 wings. These two characters, however, exist together only in the 

 type-species of Parata, and we find other species with the discal 

 streak of Parata and the outline of Hasora, or vice versd, while the 

 streak itself appears in every degree of intensity, being sometimes 

 very prominent and at other times barely traceable or altogether 

 absent, the females in all the species being structurally inseparable. 



The species represented in the British Museum are divided below 

 into two groups, based on the degree of prominence of the sexual 

 streak, and are numbered in what appears to be their most natural 

 order, which it will be seen does not agree at all witli the divisions 

 founded on their sexual brand. 



Of atrox, bilunata, and lugubris there are only females in the 

 British Museum ; of these the two former probably have a discal 

 stigma in the male, and the last seems very possibly to be the female 

 of celcenus. 



Other species of the genus are auura, dc Niceville, and hadria, 

 de Niceville, both from India, and there are five unidentified species 

 in the British Museum, most of whii h are probably undescribed. 



