RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 207 



Genus PARAGERYDUS, gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Geri/dus, but differing by having the first joint of the tarsi greatly 

 elongated, but not widened and compressed as in (ii-ri/diis ,- the female also differs from the 

 male iu having the outer margin of the posterior wings dentately sinuate. 



I failed to phice this genus in the Synopsis (p. 197), believing, previous to 

 close examination, that the following species really belonged to (Jerijdus, as hitherto 

 classified. Its position is readily defined as allied to Gerijdus and Lo(jania by 

 having the third subcostal nervule of the anterior wings emitted beyond the end 

 of cell, and it difiers from the first by the non-compressed and non-dilated tarsi, 

 and from the second by the non-globosely iucrassated tibial apices. 



Fig. 60.— Posterior 

 leg of Paragerydus 

 horsfie.ldi. 



1. Paragerydus horsfieldi. (Tab. XX., fig. 7 ? .) 



Miletus Horsjieldi, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. j). 19, n. 3, t. la, f. 2 (1857) ; Druce, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 347, u. 1. 

 Gertjdiis Horsfieldi, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 546, n. 1 (1877). 



Male. Wings above dark brownish ; anterior wings with a pale ochraceous streak beyond cell, 

 extending along the upper median nervule for about half its length. Wings beneath greyish, thickly 

 mottled with irregularly shaped and sized brown markings ; fringe pale brownish. Body and legs more or 

 less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Eesembling the male, but with the anterior wings proportionally shorter and their outer 

 margin convex ; the outer margin of the posterior wings dentately sinuate, and the pale streak on the 

 upper surface of the anterior wings almost obsolete. 



Exp. wings, S and 2 , 31 to 40 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Brit. Mus.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca 

 (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.) : Singapore (Kerr — coll. Bist.) — Java (coll. Horsf.) — Borneo (Lowe — coll. Godm. 

 and Salv.). 



Two specimens received from Singapore, and both males, are smaller than the female here 

 figured, which itself does not equal in size some large male specimens captured at Sungei 

 Ujong. It is therefore very evident that size is a very variable element in the form of 

 this species. 



2. Paragerydus nivalis. (Tab. XXII. , fig. 11 2.) 



Miletus nivalis, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 348, n. 4. 



Gerydus nivalis? Butl. Traus. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. 1, p. 54G, u. 2 (1877). 



My only knowledge of this species is derived from the Bornean type described by Mr. Druce, 

 and a Malaccan specimen in the British Museum, from which the figure is taken. The following 

 is the original description : — 



" Male. Upperside dark brown. Underside white, speckled with pale brown. Anterior wing with 

 six black spots close to the outer margin ; posterior wing with five." * 

 Exp. wings, " 1 inch." 

 Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Borneo (Lowe — coll. Godm. & Salv.). 



* These spots would be more correctly described as marginal, and are scarcely reducible to the numbers given. 



