PARNAEA. 613 
Parnara eltola. 
Hesperia eltola, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. {Hesperia) pi. iv. fig. 40 (1869). 
Parnara eltola, Wood-Mason & de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 188G, p. 384, 
pi. xviii. figs. 6, 6 a, (J . 
" Ujiperside dark brown. Anterior wing with eight transparent white spots, and a spot of yellow 
near the inner margin : the three largest spots across the middle, two outside of these, and 
three near the apex. Posterior wings with three transparent spots. 
" Underside as above, except that it is rufous-brown. 
" Expanse 1^ inch. Hub. Darjeeling." {Hewitson, 1. e.) 
Chinese specimens are larger and darker, as a rule, than those from 
Sikkim. 
Occurs in Western China at Moupin, Wa-shan, Chia-ting-fu, Omei-shan, 
Wa-ssu-kow, in June and July, up to an elevation of about 5000 feet. 
Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 449) says : — " Common about 
gardens at 5000 feet in Sikkim, and also in the low valleys, and up to 7000 
feet during the whole season." Wood-Mason and de Niceville record it from 
Cachar. 
Parnara austeni. (Plate XLII. fig. 7, c? .) 
Baoris austeni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 533. 
" Male and female. Upperside dark brown. Male : fore wing with two small semihyaline 
white spots at end of the cell, two before the apes, and three obliquely on the disc, the two 
upper of which are small. Female with markings the same, but slightly larger; also with 
a small yellow spot above the hind margin ; cilia cinereous white. Underside as above : 
both sexes having also a slight yellowish patch above the hind margin. 
"Expanse, d Ig, $ If inch. 
" This species is allied to H. cahira, from the Andamans, and to //. moolata, from Tenasscrim." 
{Moore, I. c.) 
Not uncommon in Western China at Omei-shan, Moupin, Chia-kou-ho, 
Chia-ting-fu, and Kwei-chow in July. I also took it at Foochau in April. 
This species exhibits considerable variation in the number of spots on 
primaries. Typical examples have two discoidal spots and a central series 
of five or sometimes six spots. In some examples from Omei-shan and 
Foochau the upper discoidal spot is absent, as also is the third spot from 
costa ; these specimens are also paler in ground-colour than typical examples 
and are more suffused with yellowish. Similar variation is noticed in Moller's 
Sikkim series. In two female specimens from Omei-shan there is an 
indistinct whitish spot in the centre of under surface of secondaries, and in 
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