G16 



HESPER1ID.E. 



Mr. de Niceville (1. c.) says: — "The Rev. Walter A. Hamilton, Avho 

 obtained the two specimens above described, possesses the wings only of a 

 third specimen, placed between talc, of what appears to be the male of this 

 species captui'ed in the same locality. In the fore wing there are two small 

 well-separated spots in the cell instead of one large one, the two spots below 

 are smaller, the spot on the submedian interspace entirely wanting ; otherwise 

 as in the female. This specimen does not apparently possess any secondary 

 sexual characters. 



" 1 do not know any near ally to P. sarala. The shape of the wings agrees 

 with that of the species of the genus Parnara, the probable male having the 

 fore wing less broad, the apex more acute, and the outer margin more 

 straight and inwardly oblique than in the female." 



These differences in shape are not apparent in my male specimen compared 

 with de Niceville's figure of the female. 



The species is here retained in Parnara, as it has been placed therein by 

 de Niceville, but a new genus will probably have to be created for it. 



Genus BAOHIS. 

 Baoris, Moore, Lcp. Ccyl. i. p. 165 (1881). 



" Fore wing triangular, apex acute ; exterior margin very oblique ; hind wing broad, very 

 conTex anteriorly, the mule possessing a more or less prominent tuft of long hair covering a 

 patch of raised scales at end of the cell. Body robust, thorax very broad ; club of antenna; 

 somewhat lengthened. 



" Type, D. (Hesperia) oceia, Ilewitson." (J/oore, I. c.) 



Baoris oceia. (Plate XLII. fig. 6, d .) 



llesperia oceia, Ilewitson, Desc. Hesp. p. 31 (18G8). 

 Baoris ocria, Moore, Lc|). Ceyl. p. IG5 (1M(S1). 



" Alis fuscis : anticis maculis vilreis : posticis i)l!iga ovali media rug()so-s(iuamosa, setis longis 



nigris decumbent ibus obtecta. 

 •■ Uppersidc dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing with seven Iransparent sjiots : two, very small, 



within the cell, throe between tlic nervures below tlu'se, and twolx'l'oie tlie apex. I'osteiior 



wmg with a large tuft of black hair below the costal margin. 

 '• Expanse 1-,*^ inch, rhilippines." {Ilewitson, 1. c.) 



I liavc received this species from Omci-shan, Western China, and Jiom 

 Kiukiang, Central Cliina. 1 took specimens myself at I'oochau and Ningpo 

 III A] nil. All these agree fairly well with Sikkini examples in my collection. 



