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7. Pareuplexia flammifera spec. nov. 



lleseuible.s cnjlhiii-is Hmps., but larger ; the violaceous grey suffusion wider 

 and paler ; the edges of the stigmata ociueous tinged with rufous, the lower half of 

 rcnifovm flame-yellow ; hiudwing olive-fuscous, darker terminally ; the veins dark 

 and thickened terminally into spots in the terminal line. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



1 $ from 8ikkim, taken by Col. Pilcher, August 1889. 



8. Pareuplexia nigritula spec. nov. 



Forewing : deep purple black on a dull red ground, which shows only iu 

 a ])ostmedian band, in the spots of the subterminal line, in the outlines of the 

 stigmata, and at base of each fold ; lines obscure, double, intenseh' black ; 

 the outer dentate-lunulate, the teeth black along the veins, which are themselves 

 dark ; claviform stigma black, pointed ; a deep black line above it below median 

 vein ; orbicular elongate, narrow, with red outline ; reniform with central lunule 

 and inner edge red, outer half a yellowish white semicircle with a small dot 

 above and one or two below it ; terminal intervals, as well as the veins, marked 

 with purplish black ; fringe concolorous, with a pale basal line. 



HindwiiKj : olive luteous sufl'used witli pale fuscous, with darker outer line and 

 subterminal shade. 



Underside bronzy greyish fuscous, with traces of dark outer lines. 



Head and thorax like forewings ; abdomen fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



7 SS,l ? from the Kliasia Ilills, October 180.5. 



Much darker, with the reniform whiter, than harfordi Hmps. from Subathu. 



9. Pareuplexia dissimulans spec. nov. 



Resembles P. iiigritida, but quite distinct; purplish black, but with a bluer 

 tinge; the two folds streaked obscurely with dull red-brown, and the subterminal 

 line interruptedly marked with rufous ochrcous, but no red postmedian band ; 

 the claviform stigma broad and blunt, thickly outlined with black, and with no 

 black line above it ; orbicular stigma rounded, purple black with a deej) black 

 outline; reniform with large black outline, except externally, where it is interrupted 

 across the middle by the brown streak of the cell-fold, and marked by some 

 ochreons scales, with two white dots in the black outline at lower outer end ; 

 subterminal line obscurely preceded and followed by black dashes ; fringe dark 

 jiowdery fuscous, with a faintly paler crenulate middle line. 



llindwtny: bronzy olive fuscous, paler basewards, with only a dark submarginal 

 shade shosvn ; fringe fuscous with pale line at base. 



Underside bronzy greyish fuscous ; the outer lines and cell-spots dark ; terminal 

 area paler. 



Head and thorax like fore wings ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the dorsal tufts 

 black. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 ? from Hazara, N.W. India, July lfti93 (.Johnstone), from the Elwes 

 Collection. 



