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PARNARA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
and smaller white spots. The species is apparently not common, at least in Java; the shows a long hair-pencil 
on the forewing beneath near the median. 
robusta. P. robusta Elio. (173 d), described from a single from Sangir, entirely resembles a large moolata 
(173 d) and chiefly differs from cahira (173 c) in its larger size and the absence of a large blackish discal spot 
and of a pale one above the hind-margin on the forewing beneath; the hindwing is beneath browner, less tinted 
with loamy yellow. 
lulsi. P. tulsi Nic. (173 e). Forewing with 2 small white discal spots, beneath without the lighter area of 
the hindmarginal region. Hindwing beneath in the centre lilac grey. Sikkim and Assam, rare, but in Burma 
jolanda. it is reported to be common. - jolanda Plotz (173 e) is according to Fruhstorfer the Javanese form, according 
to Elwes and Edwards identical with it; Piepers and Snellen likewise consider the separation as impracticable. 
The lilac grey brightening forms here on the wing beneath a median band. Buitenzorg, Sukabumi, Province 
of Prajangan. 
boisduvalii. P. boisduvalii Fldr. (173 f), from Ceram and Amboina, differs from the form of the Northern Moluccas, 
hasoroides. hasoroides Elio, db Echo. (173 e, f) which we figure from Batjan, chiefly in the white band of the hindwing not 
broadly reaching the costa of the hindwing, but being pointed and fading away directly before the costal margin. 
The insect derives its name from its upper surface being void of hyaline spots, and from the white band of the 
hindwing, which we find in numerous Hasora. Cf. pi. 166. 
atropatene. P. atropatene Fruhst. is quite an isolated species only. allied to hasoroides from which it differs in 
the more roundish and broader hind wings, the absence of a white median band, and the hindwing beneath being 
throughout uniformly of a nacreous colour instead of black. Besides, in hasoroides the abdomen is laterally 
brown, in-atropatene black with broad, long-haired white rings. Waigeu. 
miltias. P. miltias K irsch (173 f) is above quite monotonously brown without any spots, large and strong. 
Hindwing beneath also brown, lustreless, with traces only of the white median band; hindwing not so broad 
miltiades. and round as in atropatene. Hitherto only known from the Isle of Jobi. - miltiades Fruhst., from German 
New Guinea, described from a $ showing above a broad reddish-yellow hue extending to about % of the 
width of the wing; beneath only the costal margin of the forewing, and the hindwing about to the centre of 
the wing are thickly coated with dark rusty red. 
uma. P. urn a Nic. (173 f). Described from the Karen Hills in Burma; the type seems to be the only specimen 
known, a $. Above brown, forewing with a double cellular spot and 5 more spots in the cells 2, 3, 6, 7, 8. 
Hindwing beneath wine-brown with a broad silvery white subcostal streak extending around the cell-end 
and being continued in a band formed of contiguous white spots as far as the submedian area. 
philotas. P. philotas Nic. (171c). Above brown, forewing and hindwing with two white hyaline spots each 
in the cells 2 and 3. Under surface thickly covered with golden greenish-ochreous scales. The region of the 
median beneath in the fore wing broadly dark violettish-brown. 30 mm. Travancore. It is doubtful whether 
it belongs to this genus. 
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diet id us. P. distictus Holl. is unknown to me; expanse: ,,l 3 / 8 inch/ 4 ; it is said to differ from all the other 
species in the head and palpi being white beneath, and in a series of submarginal dark dots on the hindwing 
beneath. From Hainan. 
oceia. P. oceia Hew. (173 f). This widely distributed, mostly common species is at once - recognisable by 
the dense hair-tuft exhibited by the <J on the cell of the hindwing and covering a velvety spot of peculiarly 
band-shaped scent-scales. It corresponds with a velvety spot of similar only half as long scent-scales on a reflec¬ 
ting surface above the hind-margin of the forewing beneath. The colour of the wings is, as in all the Parnara, 
above uni-coloured dark brown, the fore wing with a circle of small discal hyaline spots varying in size. The 
species does not vary locally, though Moore has denominated a number of casual or temporary deviations, 
farri. such as farri with somewhat smaller hyaline spots which, on the contrary are enlarged in scopulifera. the spots 
•jcopuhfera. j n phe ce n-end being particularly large. — In penicillata the under surface is more or less strewn with greyish- 
LlC 'unlcolor. white, in unicolor the hyaline spots are entirely absent. — sikkima Swh. is founded upon particularly large 
sikkima. specimens with very broad wings and well developed hyaline spots. The larva probably lives on palms or 
bamboo, and the species is distributed from India in the north through South China — apparently without 
approaching the palearctic region — to the Philippines. In Hongkong I took great numbers of the species. 
To the south as far as the Andamans, Ceylon, Sunda Is., but it is absent in the Australian Region. 
sbnillima. P similiima Elw. d; Edw. (173 g) is exceedingly similar to oceia and probably only its representative 
from Pulo Laut, but it is regarded as a separate species, because the $ genitals are different. Externally similiima 
differs in the paler colouring on the hindwing beneath in the hindmarginal area and — judging from the figure — 
also in the scantier spotting of the fore wing. 
