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201. Paralcis auropurpurea spec. dov. 



Forewing : grey-brown; costa with black striae and black spots at the 

 beginning of the lines, and one close to base, and three in the middle; the two 

 basal lines bent in ccdl, then vertical; the median and outer, which latter is 

 partly double, oblique outwards, and bent at vein 4, both absorbed below middle 

 of wing in a large blackish elond, of which the inner and outer margins are 

 densely black ; submarginal line vertical, but inbent at vein 4, and preceded by 

 black blotches between veins; the marginal area darker, except a paler brown 

 patch between veins 3 and 4 ; black marginal lunules ; fringe blackish, with paler 

 base, and pale brown between 3 and 4. 



In the ? the black cloud is much more extensive and all the black markings 

 intensified, the submarginal line and basal area paler. 



Hindwing : bluish purple, paler along costa, and browner towards inner 

 margin, especially in c?, where the commencement of the lines is more conspicuous ; 

 inner margin and fringe bright yellow for two-thirds. 



Underside uniform dark slate-colour; inner margin of hindwing and fringe 

 yellow. 



Head and thorax brown-black ; abdomen yellow, with the dorsum broadly 

 black at base, the spots on segments diminishing in size to the fifth, where they 

 cease ; anal tuft and the whole ventral surface dark ; legs blackish, with yellow 

 joints. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 S, 1 ?. 



Allied to P. coerulescens Warr. 



~< »~. Paralcis cellulata spec. nov. 



Forewing : white ; costa and veins pale olive-brown ; the space between 

 3 and 4 of the same colour except at margin ; the lines velvety black, double, 

 and by confluence forming bands; base narrowly black; a curved band of two 

 lines at one-fonrth ; a second before middle from costa to vein 4, followed by 

 a single line, and a third beyond middle, also stopping short rather before 4 ; 

 below 3 the two bands seem to unite to form a triple band about the middle ; 

 beyond the outer band a black costal blotch is produced narrowly ami often 

 interruptedly to inner margin as a praesubmarginal band ; the white submarginal 

 line is uninterrupted and runs obliquely to apex; marginal dark area interrupted 

 at apex and between 3 and 4 by white ground-colour; marginal lunules black; 

 fringe white, chequered with blackish. 



Hindwing : cream-white, with a faint ochreous tinge, and a cloudy grey 

 cell-spot; a postmedian and two submarginal grey lines; black marginal lunules ; 

 fringe paler. 



Underside pale ochreous, with the markings blurred brown or black-brown. 



Face and palpi black-brown in S, pale brown like vertex and shoulders in ¥ ; 

 thorax and abdomen ochreous, the dorsum with grey spots ; sides of shoulders and 

 patagia black-brown ; abdomen beneath and legs mottled black and ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 6 3G mm. ; ? 40 mm. 



4 <J(J, 1 ¥. 



