PAEX^EA. 



613 



Parnara eltola. 



Hesperia eltola, llewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. {Hesperia) pi. iv, fig. 40 (18G9). 

 Parnara eltola, Wood-Masou & de Nicoville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bcng. 188G, p. 384, 

 pi. xviii. figs. Q>,Q a, ^ . 



" Uppcrside dark brown. Anterior -wing with eight transparent -n-hito spots, and a spot of yellow 

 near the inner margin : the three largest spots across tlie middle, two outside of these, and 

 three near the apex. Posterior wings with three transparent spots. 



" Underside as above, except that it is rufous-brown. 



" Expanse 1^^ inch. Hub. Darjecling." {llewitson, I. c.) 



Chinese specimens are larger and darker, as a rule, than those from 

 Sikkim. 



Occurs in Western China at Moupin, Wa-shan, Chia-ting-fu, Omei-shan, 

 Wa-ssu-kow, in June and July, up to an elevation of about 5000 feet. 



Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 449) says: — "Common about 

 gardens at 5000 feet in Sikkim, and also in the low valleys, and up to 7000 

 feet during the whole season." Wood-Mason and de Niceville record it from 

 Cachar. 



Parnara austeni. (Plate XLII. fig. 7, ^ .) 



Baoris austeni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 533. 



" Male and female. Uppcrside dark brown. Male : fore wing with two small semihyaline 

 ■white spots at end of the cell, two before the ajiex, and three obliquely on the disc, the two 

 upper of which are small. Female with markings the same, but shghtly larger ; also with 

 a small yellow spot above the hind margin : cilia cinereous white. Underside as above : 

 both sexes having also a slight yellowish patch above the hind margin. 



"Expanse, S 1^, ? If inch. 



" This species is allied to H. cahira, from the Audamans, and to H. moolata, from Tenasserim.'' 

 (Moore, I.e.) 



Not uncommon in Western China at Omei-shan, Moupin, Chia-kou-ho, 

 Chia-ting-fu, and Kwei-chow in July. I also took it at Foochau in April. 



This species exhibits considerable variation in the number of spots on 

 primaries. Typical examples have two discoidal spots and a central series 

 of five or sometimes six spots. In some examples from Omei-shan and 

 Foochau the upper discoidal spot is absent, as also is the third spot from 

 costa ; these specimens are also paler in ground-colour than typical examples 

 and are more suffused with yellowish. Similar variation is noticed in Moller's 

 Sikkim series. In two female specimens from Omei-shan there is an 

 indistinct whitish spot in the centre of under surface of secondaries, and in 



4 M 



