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2UU. Paralcis deformis spec. nov. 



Forcwiiiij : pale wood-brown, smeared with greyish fuscons as far as outer 

 line; first line at oue-fburtb, black and interrupted, bent in cell; outer line from 

 twii-tbirds of costa to tbree-fonrtlis of inner margin, bhxclcisb, outenrvcd from to 

 submedian fold ; cell-spot large and black ; traces of a median shade, plainest on 

 costa and above inner margin ; snbmargiual line pale, waved ; the lunnles filled in 

 with blackish ; marginal area tinged with deeper brown ; some black marginal 

 dots ; fringe brown. 



llii)ihciii</ : ]iale brown, with grey speckling; a black cell-spot and grey 

 postmediau line. 



Underside darker ; both wings dark grey to outer line ; cell-spots black. 



Head and thorax brown varied with black ; abdomen like hiudvviiigs. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 6. 



The single example is considerably worn. 



2i)l. Paralcis discata spec, nov., and ab. alterata nov., and ab. albiclausa nov. 



Forcwiiig : dull olive-lirown, generally densely covered with bluish grey and 

 olive scaling, so that the dark ground-colour is lost ; a large oval Idackish 

 cell-spot ; a dark blotch at extreme base ; lines darker, but obscure ; first at 

 one-fourth, bent in cell, then vertical ; outer from three-fifths of costa to two- 

 thirds of inner margin, obli(pie outwards to vein 5, then inwards to submedian 

 fold, then again outwards ; submarginal line obscure, parallel to outer line, preceded 

 by darker scaling in the lunules and with the whole marginal area beyond dark 

 brown, except between 3 and 4, where the bine-grey mottling rnns through to 

 margin ; marginal lunules black, edged outwardly with {)alc ; fringe brownish 

 grey ; median shade always obscure. 



Ilindwing : dull greyish white, speckled with olive-grey ; a blackish cell-spot, 

 a sinuous dark outer line, and traces on inner margin only of antemedian and 

 submarginal lines ; fringe concolorous, beyond a dark marginal festoon. 



Underside like npperside of hindwing ; cell-sjiots black ; the lines indicated 

 on forewing ; costa of forewing distinctly striated with dark. 



Head and thorax like forewing, abdomen like hindwing. 



Expanse of wings : 30 — 3.j mm. 



A long series, all ? ? . 



In the aberration alterata the broad central and narrow marginal areas are of 

 the brown ground-colour, unspeckled by white ; but the intervals preceding and 

 Ibllowing the fascia become altogether bluish grey or whitish, and the submarginal 

 line shows more broadly white ; in these cases the dark central area is broader 

 than in typical dittcata, the brown suffusion not only including the space between 

 inner and outer lines, but also extending to the dark shades which precede the 

 inner and follow the outer lines, and which in the typical form are more or less 

 obsolete ; median shade distinct and black. 



Expanse of wings : 28 — 36 mm. 



4 ? ¥. 



The aberration (dlndausa is the extreme form of ab. a/tt'nita, in whicli the 

 brown central fascia is bordered on each side by broad white bands. 



2 ??. 



