CSS HESPEEIID.E. 
Hasora chromus. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 7, var.) 
Papilio chromus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. cdxsxiv. fig. E (1780). 
Goniloba chromus, Moore, Proc. Zoal. Soc. Lond. 18 o, p. 777. 
Parata chromus, de Niceville, Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1885, p. 52. 
Hasora chromus, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 128. 
" Male anAftmaU dark vinaceous brown. 
" M'de with suffused blackish subbasal patch ; both wings gre\ ish brown basally. Cilia gre\ish 
brown. Head and thorax greenish brown. Abdomen brown. Underside with the apex of 
fore -wing sntfusod with purple-blue ; hind wing with a narrow transverse discal bluish-wliite 
band, a blackish patch on anal lobe, exterior to which the cilii have a short white line. 
Third joint of palpi and legs brown : palpi and thorax beneath dull )'ellow. 
^'Female paler brown ; fore wing with two yellowish scmitrunsparcnt discal spots and a very 
small similar spot before the apex. 
" Expanse '2 inches. 
^'Bengal." {Moore, Lc.) 
All the examples of this species that I have received from China arc 
females, and, as a rule, they are smaller than Indian specimens. One 
example from Kwei-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, <3 ). An example from Wa-shan is without 
discal spots and the subapical one is very small ; this specimen agrees with 
Hasora {Hesijeria) vitta., Butler, as figured by Distant (Rhop. Malay, pi. xxxv. 
fig. 4, d ), but not with Butler's figure (Lep. Exot. pi. lix. fig. 9). The band 
on under surface of secondaries varies in width, and its external edge is 
sometimes ill-defined. 
Occins in Western CJiina at ^^'a-shan, Omei-shan, Ta-chien-lu, and Kwei- 
chow. 
Mr. Elwes *, 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. I cannot distinguish 
between what Moore figures as alexis and chromvs. He says of the Ceylon 
alexis, ' smaller than chromus, Avith broader and more prominently marked 
band on the underside of the hind wing.' I have a large series of specimens, 
including two males and a female from Ceylon, one pair from Bangalore, 
four pairs from Sikkim. one male and two females from Andaman Islands, 
one pair from Shillong, one male from Banackpur, and two males from 
* Trans. Eut. Hoc. Lond. ISS*, p. 441. 
