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Burinali ; but I find too much variation in tlie size and in the band of the 
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 the name of chromus." 
Disfribiifioii. Northern India and Western C'liina. 
Hasora anura. (Plate XXXIX. fig. in, ? .) 
Hasora anurn, de Niceville, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Joumi. iv. p. 1/0, pi. B. figs. ^6,12 
(1889). 
" Mah. Upperside, buth wings deep hronzy-Lrown, the base and disc thifkl}' clothed with long 
ochreous-brown hairs; cilia ochreous brown. Fore wing with a minute subapical transparenc 
shining yellow dot. Underside, both wings dark brown, somewhat glossed with purple. 
Fore wing with the inner margin broadly- pale, a broad discal dark band tree from purple 
gloss. Hind wing with the basal two thirds much darker than the outer third, the dark 
portion well-defined, 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. Upperside, 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 
these 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 male. 
"Closely allied to the common Ilasora badra, Moore, from which it differs 
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 liaving 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 H. 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 Shilloug in the collection of tlie 
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