608 



HESPEEIID.E. 



the spots on the hind wing. Underside paler, longitudinally streaked with grey ; spots the 

 same ; sexual streak on male not visible. Exp. inch. 

 " Shanghai. 



" Wings much broader than in P. sinensis, Mabille, and the hind wing is not lobed as in that 

 species." {^Joore, I. c.) 



I have received this species from Kiukiang, and also from Ningpo, occurring 

 in April in the latter place. There are specimens from Shanghai and Nan- 

 kow in the National Collection. 



Parnara sinensis. (Plate XLli. fig. 1 1 , d .} 



Gegenes sinensis, IMabille^ Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1877^ p. 232 

 Chapra prominens , Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. Loud. J 882, p. 261. 

 Pamphila similis, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 48 (1890). 



Gefjenes sinensis, Mabille. — " Mule tros-grand (44 mill. Fentelle 4G-48 mill.), d'uu brun obscnr, 

 avec la discjuo lave de roux ; sur les premieres ailes, deux taches oblongues dans la cellule, 

 trois petites et carrees devantl'apex, et trois antres plus grosses en avant dc la cellule, faisant 

 suite aux trois ])recedentes et formant avec elles une ligne courbc, puis oblique. Un fort 

 trait gris jaunatre ombre de noir en dessus part de la derniere dos taches et va s'arretcr sur 

 la simple inferieure. Au lieu de ce trait, la femelle a une tache de plus jaunatre ; toutes les 

 autres sent blanchatrcs et semi-transparentes. Inferieures ayant une ligne dc quatro points 

 semblables, trcs petits en face de la cellule et pres du bord extcrn&. Le dessous des superieures 

 a le mOme dessiu, mais il est seme d'ocailles jaunatres. Celui des inferieures est d'un bruu 

 verdatre avec les quatre points du dessus ofc uu de plus au milieu de la cellule ; la tete et la 

 poitrine sont jaunatre clair; les palpes sont jaunos en dessous. 



" De la Chine septentrionale." {Mabille, I. c.) 

 Male and ftmale. Uppersidc dark olive-brown, basal area brighter olive. Male — fore wing with 

 eight rather lar^e (juadrate yellowish semidi>iphano«s spots, tliroo being disposed before the 

 apex, three discnl, and two very obliquely at end of the cell; a prominent narrow oblicjue 

 yellow brand or streak below the cell, which in the female is replaced by two spots, the upper 

 one of which is very small : hind wing witli four yellow semidiaphanous contiguous spots. 

 Underside ])aler ; spots on fore wing as above, the brand showing as a diffused yellow jiatch 

 from its outer edge; the series of spots on hind wing more jjrominently white, with a fiflh 

 spot at the ui)])cr end, and one also at the npjjer end of the cell. 



" Expanse ^ inch. 



"Hah. N.W.Himalaya: Tonse valley, (JOOO feet; (iiirwhai (L/nn/), Kussowloe ; Kangra. In 

 coll. ]•". Moore, Major Lang, and IJritish JIuseuin." {Moore, I. c.) 



I have now a fine scries of the species wliicli I describc^d as " PantpJiila 

 H/mili.s," and find tliat the example from ( 'liang-yang, whicli 1 erroneously 

 coiisider(;d to l)e a female, is really a male. 1 also find that the specimens 

 arc ref(;ral)le to sinansis^ MabilU>, of wiiich j)r'omm('US, Moore, is also a 



iioiiy 111. 



Si]s.kiiii s[)ecimens agree willi those IVom Cliiiia : in the latl(>i' the sjiots on 



