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Burinali ; but I find too much variation in the size and in the baud of llie 

 underside to allow me to separate two forms. De Niceville considers them 

 distinct, and says that alexis occurs only in South India and Ceylon. If, 

 however, they are identical, alexis, being the older name, should be used ; 

 and if they are distinct, the Sikkim form will bear tlie name of cliromiis. ' 

 Didrihiition. Northern India and Western China. 



Hasora anura. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 10, ? .) 



Husora anurn, de Niceville, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Joura. iv. p. 170, pi. B. figs. 5 , 1 $ 

 (1889). 



" Uppcrside, botli wings deep hrouzy-hrown, the base and disc tliickly clothed with long 



ochreous-brown hairs; cilia ochreous brown. Pore wing with a minute subapical transparent 

 shining j'ellow dot. Underside, both wings dark brown, somewhat glossed with purple. 

 Fore wing with the inner margin broadly pale, a broad discal dark band free from purple 

 gloss. Hind wing with the basal two thirds much darker than the outer third, the dark 

 portion well-detined, bearing towards the abdominal margin on the dividing edge a small 

 prominent ochreous spot, an ochreous anteciliary line from the anal angle to the first median 

 nervule, the ochreous spot and line obscure in one specimen ; a prominent whitish spot in the 

 middle of the disc in one specimen, obscure in the other. 



" Female. Uppcrside, both wings coloured as in the male. Fore wing with a quadrate spot at 

 the end of the cell, an elongate one below across the first median interspace, its inner 

 edge straight, its outer edge concave ; another smaller narrow spot constricted in the middle 

 across the middle of the second median interspace; three increasing subapical dots — all 

 those spots shining translucent rich ochreous. Underside, fore wing with the spots of 

 the upperside showing through, the inner margin broadly bright ochreous, otherwise as in 

 the mule. 



"Closely allied to the common Ilasora badra, Moore, from Avhich it diff"ers 

 in both sexes in having no large anal lobe to the hind wing, this lobe being 

 present in H. badra and coloured black on the underside, of which black 

 patch there is no trace in //. anura ; the latter also is a smaller insect ; the 

 female differs in having the three large discal yellow spots of the fore wing 

 considerably smaller, and of a deeper richer yellow. 



" Described from two male and four female specimens in Mr. Otto Moller's 

 collection which shew hardly any variation. They have been selected from 

 ninety-three males and forty-five females of //. badra, a very common species 

 in Sikkim, in Mr. Moller's collection. The complete absence of the large 

 anal lobe or tail in //. anura makes it distinguishable from //. badra at a 

 glance. There is also a specimen of this species from Sikkim in the collection 

 of Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, and a male from Shillong in the collection of the 



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