PARNAKA. 



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Parnara pellucida. 



Pamphila pellucida, JNIumiy, Eut. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 172 (1875) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihoa. 



p. 34, pi. X. fig. 11 (1889). 

 Pamphila pellucida, var. quinquepuncta, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvii. p. Ixiv 



(1883). 



Thymelicus pellucida, Staudinger, Rora. sur Lop. iii. p. 152, pi. viii. fig. 3 (1887). 

 Hesperia toona, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 689; Wood-Mason & de Nice- 

 ville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Iv. p. 383 (188G). 



" Alis supra brunneis, albo-maculatis : anticis maculis duabus discocellularibus super alteram 

 exteriorem magnam quadratam, macula subai)icali tripartita, alteris duabus inter maculas 

 subapicalem et quadratam, strigaque parva in vena submediana (maculis omnibus pellucidis). 

 Posticis maculis quatuor pellucidis, fasciara brevera formantibus. 



" Subtus, alis ochraceo-bruDneis, anticis ad marginem intcriorem nigro-fuscis, maculis ut in pagind 

 superiore. Ciliis albis. 



" Alar. exp. 1" 9"'. 



" Hah. Ja])oniam. 



" Allied to F. guttata, Brem., Grey, but sufficiently distinct. The spots on the hind wing are 

 arranged in a curious alternate manner, the first and third being nearer the hind margin than 

 the second and fourth." {Murray, I. c.) 



" Allied to //. eltola, Hewitson. 



" JIale. Differs in the fore wings being slightly more elongate, the hind wing more convex 

 cxteriorl}', and the anal angle less lobed ; markings above similar, those on fore wing narrower, 

 the spot between the median branches elongated and extending to their basal angle ; those on 

 the hind wing very small, the outer spot crossed by a vein. Underside brownish ochreous ; 

 base of fore wing slightly dusky ochreous ; markings as above. 



" Expanse inch. 

 HaJiitat. N.E.Bengal." {Moore, he.) 



•' Female. Bather larger and less richly coloured than the male, with the large discal semitrans- 

 parent lustrous spot in the first median interspace of the fore wing shorter, emarginate, and 

 not extending to the base of the interspace. 



" One example has only the three posterior of the spots of the underside of the hind wing — and 

 those much reduced in size — instead of five, but four are visible on the upperside." ( Wood- 

 Mason tj' de Nicevillc, L c.) 



Tar. quinquepuncta, Mabille. " Nous rapportons a cette espece une forme qui, tout d'abord, 

 parait tres ditt'erente. EUe est plus grande (40 millimetres). Les ailes superieures ont les 

 points u,n peu plus gros ct il y cn a un de plus assez souvent dans la ligne oblique, place au- 

 dessous des points apicaux, qui sont tous bieu marques et egaux. Les ailes inferieures 

 offrent les quatre points allonges inegaux et inegalement places et un cinquieme pres du 

 bord antei'ieur, dont les males semblent depourvus. 



" Japon, montagnes de I'interieur." {MahiUe, I. c.) 



This species varies considerably in size. I met with it commonly all over 

 Japan, and also at Gensan in the Corea, and in the Kurile Islands. Several 



