Talk:Hasora chromus

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[edit] Detailed description ex Watson

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Male and female dark vinaceous brown. Male with suffused blackish subbasal patch ; both wings greyish brown basally. Cilia greyish brown. Head and thorax greenish brown. Abdomen brown. Underside with the apex of forewing suffused with purple blue ; hindwing with a narrow transverse discal bluish white band, a blackish patch on anal lobe, exterior to which the cilia have a short white line. Female paler brown ; forewing with two yellowish semi-transparent discal spots, and a very small similar spot before the apex.^[1]

Andaman females all have only a single small semi-transparent subapical speck between the last two branches of the subcostal nervure of the anterior wing ; but those from continental India have sometimes one and sometimes two besides this on the disc of the same wing, which in one from Bangalore in South India, are enlarged into two conspicuous reversed comma-shaped spots.

—Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J.A.S.B., 1881, p. 254

In a long series of this species from Madras, the females have one very minute subapical spot, and two prominent spots on the disc, the lower of which is indented outwardly. Both males and females show very little variation in the prominence of the transverse band on the underside, though this is not the case in specimens from the Nilgiris, where alexis and chromus seem to run into one another.

—E.Y.Watson^[1]

AshLin 17:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC)