ISME^^E.— IIASORA. 



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I received one male specimen from Western China. It was taken in July 

 at Moupiu. 



'J'liis species is allied to /, vasutana, Moore, from Sikkim, but differs 

 therefrom as follows : — the upper surface is darker, the orange fringes towards 

 anal angle of secondaries are much narrower and paler, and there is an 

 absence of subhyaline spots on disc of both surfaces of the primaries. 



Genus HASORA. 



Hasora, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 159 (1881) ; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, 



p. 127. Type, badra, ^looxe. 

 Parata, Moore, Lep, Ceyl. vol. i. p. 160 (1881). Type, chromus, Moore. 



" Antennae: club thickening rather abruptly and gradually tapering to a fine point, bent beyond 

 the thickest portion, usually at about a right angle, but sometimes almost into a hook ; the 

 terminal portion not quite so long as the remainder of the club. Fore wing : inner and 

 outer margins subequal ; cell less than two thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching 

 costa almost opposite upper angle of cell; vein 5 nearer to 6 than to 4 ; upper diseoccllular 

 minute ; middle and lower discoccllulars inwardly oblique and in the same straight line : 

 vein 3 almost equidistant from base of wing and from end of cell ; vein 2 nearer to base of 

 wing than to vein 3 ; vein 1 distorted downwards near base. Hind wing produced into a 

 lobe ; vein 7 slightly nearer to 6 than to 8 ; discocellulars very faint, outwardly oblique ; 

 vein 5 well developed, much nearer to 6 than to 4 ; vein 3 from just before end of cell ; 

 vein 2 almost equidistant from base of wing and from end of cell. Hind tibiae not very 

 densely fringed, and with two pairs of spurs. 



" The female differs in vein 3 of the fore wing being three times as far from base of wing as from 

 end of cell. 



" The type-species of Parata differs from the type-species of Hasora in 

 being provided in the male with an oblique discal stigma on the fore wdng, 

 and also in some slight differences in the outline of the wings. These two 

 characters, however, exist together only in the type-species of Parata, and 

 we find other species with the discal streak of Parata and the outline 

 of Hasora, or vice versd, while the streak itself appears in every degree 

 of intensity, being sometimes very prominent and at other times barely 

 traceable or altogether absent, the females in all the species being structurally 

 inseparable. 



" This genus is represented in the British Museum from throughout 

 India, Malayasia, the Philippines, Fiji, New Guinea, and Australia." 

 ( }Vafso7i, I.e.) 



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