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wings bright-greenish yellow or yellow, especially in d* j spots 

 of upper-side reproduced, but appearing more transparent; 

 cilia yellow. 



Colonel Swinhoe places this species in Caltoris, Swinh. 

 (type kumara, Mre.), but owing to its affinity to colaca, 

 Mre., I see no reason for separating it from Parnara, as 

 defined. It is somewhat like mathias, 9 > Du ^ the absence 

 of stigma easily separates it. 



Type in British Museum. 



Port Darwin and Woodlark Island, New Guinea. 



Mr. Dodd sent me a fine series, which show no varia- 

 tion. The footnote at end of description of mathias, 

 T.R.S., S.A., p. 117, 1902, refers to this species. The type 

 came from Woodlark Island. 



91. P. colaca, Mre. 



Hesperia colaca, Mre., P.Z.S., 1877, p. 594, pi. lvii., fig. 7. 

 Parnara cingala, Mre., Lep., Ceylon, i., p. 167, pi. lxx., figs. 3a, 

 35, 1881. Hesperia urejus, Plotz, Berl., Ent. Zeit., xxix., p. 226, 

 1885, pi. mccccxv. II. saruna, ib., I.e., xlviii., p. 90, 1886, pi. 

 mcccexxix. 



o 9 > 33-38 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark-fuscous. Palpi beneath pale-yellowish, an- 

 tennae rather short, hardly half the length of costa. Thorax 

 and abdomen clothed above with golden-ochreous hairs, be- 

 neath ochr'eous-whitish. Legs ochreous fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, triangular, costa straight, termen oblique, slightly 

 bowed; dark-fuscous, markings whitish, semi-hyaline; a 

 transverse row of 3 small subapical spols, upper one often 

 absent; a somewhat quadrate spot at base of veins 2 and 3; 

 a small cartridge-shaped spot at base of veins 3 and 4 ; a small 

 spot nearly at base of veins 4 and 5 ; some golden hairs along 

 dorsum; cilia ochreous-fuscous, darker on basal half. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded; generally two small dots in 

 middle of wing at § from, base, sometimes obscure ; cilia as in 

 forewings. Forewings below dark-fuscous, costal, apical, and 

 terminal , areas finely irrorated with pale-ochreous ; markings 

 of upper-side reproduced. Hindwings below dark-fuscous 

 wholly irrorated with pale-ochreous scales, markings of upper- 

 side reproduced, somewhat obscure. 



Swinhoe says (T.E.S., p. 23, 1908) :— "At the end of the 

 cell of forewings there are generally two spots. Sometimes 

 only one and sometimes both are obsolescent; in the figures on 

 pi. mccccxv. there is only one; in pi. mcccexxix. both are 

 a.bsent. I have Indian examples like both." 



De Niceville, in writing to Mr. Rowland Turner, says : — 

 "Parnara colaca. This agrees exactly with specimens from 

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