Burara amara, the small green awlet,[2] is a species of hesperid butterfly found in Northeast India and Southeast Asia.

[3] The small green awlet ranges from India, (Sikkim eastwards through Assam), to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Hainan and south Yunnan.

[4] Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description:[5] Male and female.

Underside, forewing brown, becoming bluish black along the base of the costa; posterior margin broadly brownish white; hindwing bluish black; veins of both wings brownish white, the space between them having a greyish blue parallel line running their entire length.

Thorax in front and beneath, head, palpi, legs, middle of abdomen, and anal tuft ochreous yellow.