﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Group ZIMENITINA.) 

 31 JSjpe Laotaria, BrUler. 37 Type Neriphua, Hewits. 43 Type mimetica, G. Smith. 4S Type Vennlia, Linn, 



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Genus PARASARPA. 



Limenitis (sect. V., part), Felcler, Neues Lep. p. 30 (1861). 



Limenitis (part), Westwood, Gren. D. Lep. p. 274 (1850). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 156 

 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Wings large, very broad. Forewing triangular, costa slightly 

 arched at the base, apex rounded ; exterior margin slightly scalloped ; cell broad , 

 less than half length of the wing in length, closed ; first subcostal branch emitted at 

 two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-sixth before the end; upper discocellular 

 close to the subcostal, second concave and slightly angled inward in the middle, 

 lower slender and slightly concave posteriorly ; middle median veinlet emitted imme- 

 diately before end of the cell. Flindwivtj triangular, costa short, apex obtuse, exterior 

 margin very slightly convex and acutely scalloped, anal angle broadly rounded ; cell 

 open ; precostal vein long, incurved. Body stout, hairy ; palpi very laxly but thickly 

 hairy, third joint elongated and pointed ; antennal club elongated, slender ; eyes 

 hairy. Sexes alike. 



Type.— P. Zayla. 



PARASARPA ZAYLA (Plate 248, fig. 1, la, b, <J ? ). 



Limenitu Zayla, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 276, pi. 35, fig. 4 (1850). de Niceville, 

 Butt of India, etc., ii. p. 159 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown. Ciha 

 alternated with white. Foreiving with four black sinuous lines crossing the cell, 

 two similar lines, and a line and a figure of eight mark below the cell, the interspace 

 of middle cell lines, of the discocellular lines and the lower mark being brownish- 

 ochreous ; a broad transverse discal pale ochreous band divided by the brown veins, 

 its inner edge uneven but sharply defined, its outer edge lunulated and somewhat 

 diffused, and the lower portion of the band inwardly whitish ; three slender pale 

 ochreous elongated streaks in continuation of the band, the ground colour beyond, 

 brown, gradually deepening to black and bordering a submarginal series of ochreous- 

 red deep continuous lunules, their points joined to an ochreous red outer line — their 

 interspaces being black ; the extreme outer margin black and traversed by a slender 

 brownish-grey wavy line. Hindtving with some obscure black lines across the cell ; 



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