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species, as Mabille returned specimens as unknown to him 

 with the words "Parnara (groupe seguttata), Br." Possibly 

 this and the former are not Australian. I refer them to 

 Parnara with some doubt, but they appear rightly referred. 



18. Chapra, Mre. 

 Lep., Ceylon., i., p. 169, 1881. 

 Type mathias, Fabr. 



This genus differs from Parnara only by the presence of 

 stigma of S ■ 



94. C. mathias, Fabr. 



Hesperia mathias, Fabr. 3 Ent. Syst. Supp., p. 433, n. 289, 

 290, 1798. Hesperia thrax, Led., Verh. Zool. Bot. Geis., Wien., 

 1855, p. 194, pi. i., figs. 9-10. Chapra mathias, Mre., Lep., Ceylon, 

 i., p. 169, pi. lxx., figs. 1 and la, 1881. Baoris mathias , Dist. Rhop. 

 Malay, p. 380, pi. xxxv., fig. 10, 1886. Erynnis mathias, M. and 

 L., T.R.S., p. 117. 



Elwes and Edwards (Rev. of Hesp.) give agna, Mre., 

 as a synonym. Colonel Swinhoe considers it distinct. 



Brisbane to Cape York, Port Darwin ; from October to 

 May ; also from India, Java, Borneo, etc. 



19. Sabera, Swinh. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 30, 1908. 



Type c&sina, Hew. 



Palpi upturned, thickly hairy ; antenna? two-thirds 

 length of costa; club rather long and even, not thick; 

 apiculus short and curved. Forewing with vein 2 from about 

 middle of cell, 3 from lower end, 4 from end, 5 below middle 

 of discocellular, 6 and 7 from upper end, 8 from close to 

 upper-end, 12 ending on costa well beyond upper-end of cell ; 

 hindwings with vein 4 from end of cell, 2 and 3 from close 

 before end at equal distances apart ( ? 5 from middle of dis- 

 cocellular), 6 and 7 from upper end, 8 coincident with 7 for 

 a short distance from the base, thence well separated. 



We formerly placed the type of this genus, i.e., ccesina, 

 in Erynnis, Sch., but the antennae of this species and the 

 following were discordant characters, as the length (§ of 

 costa) indicated a different genus. I have followed Colonel 

 Swinhoe in the generic description, but can find no vein 5 

 on hindwing ; possibly this is a printer's error or lapsus 

 calami. 



The sexes are similar; the d* has no perceptible stigma, 

 but has a peculiar small ovoid membranous spot lying on 

 vein 1 just inside the small white spot at end of white band 

 of forewing. It is easily passed over, but is constant, and may, 

 and probably does, indicate an embryo stigma. The white discal 

 macular band of forewings is narrower and more abbreviated 



