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Show 1893.] ] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIID.E. 127 The present species is represented in the British Museum from Ceylon and Silhet, and it also occurs in Hong Kong. (Edipodea is in the British Museum from Java, Borneo, and Macassar. 2. Genus HASORA. (Plate II. figs. 1, 2.) Hasora, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 159 (1881). Type, badra, Moore. Parata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 160 (1881). Type, chromus, Moore. Antennae : club thickening rather abruptly and gradually tapering to a fine point, bent beyond the thickest portion, usually at about a right angle, but sometimes almost into a hook ; the terminal portion not quite so long as the remainder of the club. Fore wing: inner and outer margins subequal; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa almost opposite upper angle of cell vein 5 nearer to 6 than to 4 ; upper discocellular minute ; middle and lower discocellulars inwardly oblique and in the same straight line; vein 3 almost equidistant from base of wing and from end of cell; vein 2 nearer to base of wing than to vein 3 ; vein 1 distorted downwards near base. Hind wing produced into a lobe; vein 7 slightly nearer to 6 than to 8 ; discocellulars very faint, outwardly oblique; vein 5 well developed, much nearer to 6 than to 4 ; veiu 3 from just before end of cell; vein 2 about equidistant from base of wing and from end of cell. Hind tibiae not very densely fringed, and with two pairs of spurs. The female differs in vein 3 of the fore wing being three times as far from base of wing as from end of cell. The type-species of Parata differs from the type-species of Hasora in being provided in the male with an oblique discal stigma on the fore wing, and also in some slight differences in the outline of the wings. These two characters, however, exist together only in the type-species of Parata, and we find other species with the discal streak of Parata and the outline of Hasora, or vice versd, while the streak itself appears in every degree of intensity, being sometimes very prominent and at other times barely traceable or altogether absent, the females in all the species being structurally inseparable. The species represented in the British Museum are divided below into two groups, based on the degree of prominence of the sexual streak, and are numbered in what appears to be their most natural order, which it will be seen does not agree at all with the divisions founded on their sexual brand. Of atrox, bilunata, and lugubris there are only females in the British M u s e u m ; of these the two former probably have a discal stigma in the male, and the last seems very possibly to be the female of celcenus. Other species of the genus are anura, de Niceville, and hadria, de Niceville, both from India, and there are five unidentified species in the British Museum, most of which are probably undescribed. |
