Genus HA80KA. 



Hasora t Moore, Lep. CeyL vol. i. p. IS 9 ilSSI 4 !, 



Hasora principally dufers and is most easily distinguished from the previous genus, Choaspe* t 

 to which it is closely allied, by the position of the setond median nervule of the anterior wing, which is 

 emitted about midway between the bases of the first and third median nervules. 



According to present knowledge, Hasora is a purely Oriental genus, and two species are 

 here included as found in the Malay Peninsula. 



1. Hasora badra. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 8 a\) 



Gonitobit Badra, Moore (Horsf. k Moore), Cat. Lep, Hus. E.LC. vol. i, p. £46, n. 532, t. 7. f. 8 t 8a (1867) \ 



Proc. Zool. Soo. 1805, p. 778. 

 Hesperia Badra, Btitl, Trans. Lien, Soc. ser. 2 P Zool. vol i. p. £54, n. 8 (1877). 



Isnwie Badm, SnelL Tijd, Ent. xxi. p. 41, n, 107 (1878) ; Wooa-Mas. k tie Nie, J. A, S. Beng, vol, p. 250, 



n. Ill (1881) \ Piotz, Stett. Eat. Zeit. xhr. p. 59, n. 25 (1884 j. 

 Hmora Badra, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 159, t. 05* f. 4, a, h ilS$L \ ; ilc Nic. J. A. tf. Beng, vol. li. p. 66 1 



n, 195 (1882), 



Male. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; posterior wings with the fringe brownish- grey. Wings 

 beneath paler than above, both wingB crossed by a somewhat indistinct dark fuliginous fascia ; anterior 

 wings with the inner marginal area pale yellowish-grey ; posterior wings with a greyish- white spot in and 

 near end of cell, and a fuliginous eubmargmal fascia developing into a large and dark fuliginous spot at anal 

 angle, which is preceded by an oblique greyiah spot. Body ana legs more or less concolorons with wings; 

 palpi and posterior segmental margins beneath yellowish- grey. 



Far. — Posterior wings beneath having the greyish spot in cell and the greyish streak above anal angle 

 practically obliterated or obsolete. 



Female. This sex; is figured and described in Mr, Moore's ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon/ and differs from 

 the male in having the anterior wings spotted above ; !< three small snhapical spots .... and three large 

 obliquely -quadrate spots, two being disposed on the disc, the tbird above them within the cell."* 



Exp, wings, 4S to 50 millini. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Bengal (Moore); Sikkim (de Nic). — Ceylon (Moore). — Andaman Islands ; 

 Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Malay Peninsula; Perak (KiinstL — Cale. Mua.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — 

 Brit, MnsO ; Johore (colL Staud.). — Java (Horsf. & Moore). — Celebes (SneLL) .—Philippines (Plots). 



Mr. Moore, in describing both Bengalese and Oeyloneso male examples of this species, 

 refers to ** three conjugated very small yellowish seniitrans parent spots near the costa, one 

 fourth from the apes" on the upper surface of the anterior wings, but these spots are practically 

 absent in the few specimens I have examined from the Malay Peninsula. 



The larva and pupa of this species as observed in Java are figured by Horsfield, f 

 who describes the first as feeding "upon a leguminous plant hearing the native name of 

 TnmgkuL* 1 



* Lep. Ceyl. vol, L p, 160. 



t Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Hus. E. LC. vol. i. t. vii. f. 8, 8a, 



