HASORA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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H. proxissima (sic!) Elw. (166 cl) has also a very broad white band of the hindwing, but still the usual proxissima 
shape of Hasora. Here the band is reddish in its anal portion, and the space between it and the base is quite 
bluish-green. From Mindoro. 
H. proximata Stgr. (166 cl) is very similar to proxissima, likewise exhibiting a very broad and uninter- proximata. 
rupted band of the hindwing;] but the margins are very hazy and very uniformly bent. Likewise from the 
Philippines. 
H. borneensis Elio. (166 d, e) numbers among the largest species known of Hasora. On the dark brown borneensis. 
upper surface the proximal portion of the hindwing shows bright golden brown hair; beneath the band of the 
hindwing is darkened by brown and very much narrower before the anal portion. From Borneo. 
H. myra Hew. (166 f, g). In this species the yellow colour of the hindwing is still brighter and more myra. 
glaring, and occupies the whole anal portion. Fore wing in the $ with small hyaline spots. — Larva on Milletia 
sericea and Pongamia volubilis, light green and reddish, with 4 white dorsal lines, laterally short transverse 
lines. On each segment a large spot, in front black, hindward deep red. Head orange; across the body fine 
white fluffy hair. Java. 
H. lizetta Plotz (166 e). On both sides almost uni-coloured dark brown, only beneath before the lizetta. 
anal angle in both wings a yellowish diffuse spot. One might take it to be a form of badra, but the larva is 
said to resemble entirely that of myra and likewise to live on Milletia sericea. Known from Java. 
H. schonherr Latr. is a very pretty species. Forewing with a large yellow or hyaline spot, hindwing schonherr. 
with a bright yolk-coloured median band or the whole proximal portion yellow. It is doubtful whether 
geographical races can be extracted from the various forms or whether they are more seasonal modifications, 
or even whether different forms may occur beside each other, which has been asserted, though Fruhstorfer 
contradicts it. — chuza Hew. (166 e), from Borneo, seems invariably to exhibit a downward tapering yellow chuza. 
band of the hindwing; — whereas in saida Hew. (— gentiana Flclr.) (166 e), from the Philippines, the whole saida. 
hindwing is honey-coloured excepting a very broad dark marginal band. — cridatta Fmhst. (166 e), from Nias, cridatia. 
has a much broader band of the hindwing than chuza from Borneo; but I cannot find that the basal portion 
of the wings beneath is yellowish-grey instead of violettish-grey, as the author states. — Typical schonherr schonherr. 
Latr. occurs in Java; it differs from chuza in the larger white subapical spots of the forewing and the broader 
band of the hindwing. —- The larva is not known. 
H. discolor Fldr. (166 f). Above uni-coloured dark brown, like most of the Hasora, with lustrous discolor. 
greenish hah on the head and body. The under surface is characterized by a broad irregular median band 
from the subcostal vein in the forewing to the anal angle of the hindwing, where it is ventricosely expanded. 
This band varies in its shape and colouring, being sometimes more sky-blue, sometimes more tinted yellowish. 
The imago is not common, its range extends from North Australia over New Guinea and Waigeu to Ceram. 
The type originates from Amboina. Australian specimens (from Cape York) are said to be smaller, with a more 
faded band beneath; they have been separated as mastusia Fruhst. flying from Cape York to the south as far mastusia. 
as Richmond River in spring and again in the hot season, from January to April; it is not rare in Cairns, 
Rockhampton, and Brisbane. 
H. thridas Bsd. This beautiful species seems to have a wide range, but in the various islands small thridas. 
differences are to be ascertained. In typical specimens from Buru the under surface is similar to that of discolor, 
metallic dark brown, the white transverse patch at the cell-end of the fore wing beneath is very obsolete. — 
Specimens from Waigeu and Halmaheira have a more light green lustrous under surface, and the patch at 
the cell-end of the fore wing is more prominent; this is akshita Fruhst. Also specimens from the Bismarck Archi- akshita. 
pelago and the Salomons are said to differ from Moluccan specimens, but they have not yet been denominated. 
According to Rebbe, typical thridas also occur near Illu in Ceram. The species is apparently not common. 
H. celaenus Cr. (166 f) is at once recognizable by the still more magnificent metallic bluish-green celaenus. 
under surface; the white band of the hindwing being so very characteristic in most of the Hasora is here only 
indicated by a stripe-shaped brightening. Moluccas. 
H. splendida Mob. is unknown to me; it is said to originate from the Philippines, but it was not splendida. 
known to Semper, nor is it mentioned by Elwes and Edwards who include the Philippines in their work on 
the Hesperidae. Here the forewing beneath is said to exhibit a fine light blue sub marginal band and a small 
cell-end spot. On* the hindwing the submarginal band extends to the posterior median branch and is only 
continued again behind the submedian in the anal portion, beneath a very large oval, centrally white discal 
spot beginning at the costa. — It may perhaps be merely an aberrative form of discolor. 
H. violaceus Elw. (168 a). Described according to a specimen in the Coll. Staudinger in the Berlin violaceus. 
Museum; it is said to originate from Amboina, and differs from the other species of Hasora in a violet 
reflection on the upper surface of the $, whereas the $ lacks it. 
