G38 



HESPEEIID.E. 



Hasora chromus. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 7, var.) 



Papilio chromus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. cclxxxiv. fig. E (1780). 

 GoiiUoba chromus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 18'>5, p. 777. 

 Parata chromus, de Nieeville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1885, p. 52. 

 Hasora chromus, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 128. 

 " Male and female dark vinaceous brown. 



" Male with suffused blackish subbasal patch ; both wings greyish brown basally. Cilia greyish 

 brown. Head and thorax greenish brown. Abdomen brown. Underside with the apex of 

 fore wing suffused with purple-blue ; hind wing with a narrow transverse discal bluish-white 

 band, a blackish patch on anal lobe, exterior to which the cilia have a short white line. 

 Third joint of palpi and legs brown ; paljji and thorax beneath dull yellow. 



" Female paler brown ; fore wing with two yellowish scmitransparont discal spots and a very 

 small similar spot before the apex. 



" Expanse 2 inches. 



"Bengal." {Moore, I. c.) 



All the examples of this species that I have received from China are 

 females, and, as a rule, they are smaller than Indian specimens. One 

 example from Kwoi-chow and another from Omei-shan are without the 

 subapical yellowish spot on primaries and the discal pair are smaller than 

 usual (Plate XXXIX. fig. 7, d ). An example from Wa-shan is without 

 discal spots and the suba})ical (me is very small ; this specimen agrees with 

 Hasora [Ilesperia) vitta, Butler, as figured by Distant (Rhop. Malay, pi. xxxv. 

 fig. 4, d ), but not with Butler's figure (F.ep. Exot. pi. lix. fig. 9). The band 

 on under surface of secondaries varies in widtli, and its external edge is 

 sometimes ill-defined. 



Occurs in Western China at Wa-sluin, Omei-shan, Ta-cliien-lu, and Kwei- 

 cliow. 



Mr. lilwcs *, remarking on this species from Sikkim, refers to it under 

 the name Hasora alexis, Fabricius, as follows : — " Not uncommon in tiie 

 low valleys and up to 5000 feet during the rains. J cannot distinguish 

 between wliat Moore figures as alcj'is and c/iroinNs. \lv says of tlu; Ceylon 

 «/^.r/«, ' smaller than c/ironinn, \\\{\\ broader and more ])r()minently marked 

 baiul on the underside of the hind wing.' I have a large series of sjXM imens, 

 including two males and a female from Ceylon, one pair from Bangalore, 

 four pairs from Sikkim, one mal(> and two females from Andaman Islands, 

 one pair iVom Shillong, one maU; from IJarrackpui', and two males from 



• Traud. Ent. ?W. I.oiid. l^S-^, p. 111. 



