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line, a whitish patch above the tormis. Secondary with base pale lavender-grey, 

 followed by a broad dark transverse band with goldeu-bi'own liairs ; a broad pale 

 lavender-grey band, in wliich is a cnrved dark line, fuilovved by a broad blackish 

 area nearly up to the ternien, with a shortish whitish-grey tornal stripe ; termeu 

 lavender-grey, in which is a fine black subterminal line ; fringes golden brown. 

 Underside with the ])ectns orange. Secondary strongly irrorated with lavender- 

 grey, with a postmedial dark sinuate line ; lower margin and end of cell sharply 

 outlined witli black. 



?. Like the male but darker, and all the lines more defined, especially the 

 subterminal, which iu that sex is very evanescent. 



Expanse : c? 84, ? 97 mm. 



Hah. The type is in my collection from Mafalu, where the insect occurs in 

 August. 



Paragarista gen. nov. 



Palpi with second segment reaching the vertex scaled, end segment long, 

 smoothly scaled ; antennae simple ; legs with tiliiae spined. Neuratiou : Primary 

 with vein 4 from the angle, 3 and 5 close to angle, 6 from the upper angle; 7, 8 

 and 9 stalked, the latter given ofl:' from 10 to form the areole. Secondary with 

 veins 3 and 4 from the lower angle, 5 from close to the lower angle, 6 and 7 from 

 the upper angle. 



Type : Paragarista alboiitriata B-B. 



199. Paragarista albostriata spec. nov. 



c?. Head and thorax blackisli, collar with greyish irmrations and broadly edged 

 with deep yellowish ; thorax with centre entirely deep yellow and proximal segment 

 of abdomen ileep yellow, rest of abdomen black with white anal tuft. Primary 

 black with short subbasal bluish-white line ending in a white spot in the fold, 

 medial curved line pale bluisli, ending in a small whitish spot and edging 

 internally, a brown pear-shaped mark which adjoins a deep black ovate [)atch 

 edged finely with jiale bluish, a large white patch on the inner margin confluent 

 with a pure white postmedial stripe expanding broadly into the tornus, having a 

 black patch on the inner margin, an irregular bluish white line from the apex into 

 the white stripe at vein 2 ; secondary wholly black. 



Expanse : 58 mm. 



Hab. Aroa River ; March. 



Type in my collection ; other specimens in the Tring Museum. 



~'ii). Ophiusa kebea spec. nov. 



cj. Head and thorax cinnamon-brown ; abdomen pale ochreous brown. 

 Primary pale cinnamon-brown; antemedial line fine, oblique; postmedial line 

 curved outwards to about vein 4, then receding rapidly basewards almost to meet 

 the antemedial line ; subterminal line pale lilac, with a dark edging on each side, 

 slightly oblique, nearly straight ; termen with a fine .scalloped line close to it ; 

 terminal area slightly lilaceous ; the whole wing is sparingly and finely irrorated 

 with black ; the area beyond the postmedial line is darker ; reniform distinct, darkly 

 outlined. Secondary pale ochreous grey, with a broad dark postmedial area tapering 

 towards the tornus, but not extending up to the termen. 



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