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HESPEKIID.E. 



of ochracea, but although larger this does not differ in any important 

 character from the Amurland type. The under surface of secondaries is 

 liable to vary in the male ; sometimes this is of an almost uniform yellow, 

 and sometimes it is strongly tinged with green, and the pale spots are 

 Avell developed. 



I met with this species in the Corea in June and in Central Japan in July. 

 Oberthiir records it from the Isle of Askold. 



Distribution . Amurland, Askold, Corea, and Japan. 



Genus PARNARA. 



Parnara, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 10(5 (1881) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, 



p. 105. Type, ^tf^/a^a, Brein. 

 Chapra, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 1G9 (IBS I). Type, mathias, Fabr. 



" Antenna'. : club short and stout, terminal crook very short, tip aenminate. Palpi as in Baoris-. 

 Pore wing: inner margin longer than outer m;irgin ; cell less than two thirds the length of 

 costa ; vein 12 reaching costa well before end of cell ; up])er discocellular minute, middle very 

 long, lower very short ; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell ; neuration entirely as in Boaris. 

 Hind tibia; with two pairs of spurs. Male in some species with a linear discal streak on the 

 fore wing, situated obliquely between veins 2 and 1. 



" The sole difference between the two genera Chapra and Parnara is the 

 presence or absence of the sexual streak of the fore wing, a character which 

 is certainly of no value in this genus, as it would assign two such closely allied 

 species as horbonica and matliias to two separate genera. 



" This genus is closely allied to Baoris, from which it may be separated by 

 the shape of the antennal club. 



" African and Asiatic." ( Watson, I. c.) 



Parnara matliias. 



Hesperia mathias, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 433 (1798). 



Eparyyreus mathias, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 275, pi. iii. tig. 6 (1870). 



Painphilu mathias, Butler, Proc. Zo )1. Soc. Lond. 1H7(), p. 728; Prycr, Rliop. Nilion. 



p. 33, pi. X. fig. 7, $ (1889). 

 Chapra mathia.s, Moon-, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. ]('>[}, pi. |\x. ligs. \, \a (18S1). 

 Parnara mathias, Hiitlcr, Proc, Zool. JSoe. Lond. 1881, p. 493. 

 Maoris matliias, Distant, Kliop. Malay, p. 380, pi. xxxv. Hg. 10 (1880). 



AUm oeaudatis, I'iihcIs ; anticis utrinfjuo hyalino maculatis ; postiria siibtus jjunelis albis." 

 {Fabrlci'M, I. c.) 



" Wings above viiiiMi- br.jwn, the fringb greyish ; anterior wings with eight small greyish spots, 



