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middle median veinlet emitted at some distance before lower end of cell. Hindwing 

 triangularly ovate ; exterior margin very convex, scalloped, anal angle rounded ; 

 precostal vein stout, incurved ; radial and second subcostal emitted at equal distances 

 from the costal vein. i>0(^// somewhat slender; palpi rather short, slender, com- 

 pactly clothed; antennal club slender, lengthened ; eyes naked. Sexes alike. 



Type.— P. Sulpitia (Cram.). 



Note. — One species only of this genus occurs within our region. Some of the 

 species are apparently mimetic ; the Japanese Parathyma Pryeri being probably a 

 mimic of Paraneptls Pryeri. 



PARATHYMA ADAMSONI (Plate 256, fig. 2, 2a, b, J ? ). 

 Athyma Sulpitia, Adamson, Catal. Burmese Butt. p. 23 (1895), nee Cramer. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside fuliginous-black ; markings white ; cilia 

 alternated with white. Forewing with a white elongated streak extending along 

 lower area of the cell, and partially divided on its upperside by a dentate incision 

 towards its end; a transverse discal widely- interrupted excurved white macular band 

 composed of eight spots, the four upper being outwardly oblique slender elongated 

 streaks, the costal one shortest and indistinct, the fifth a very small round spot 

 between the upper and middle median veinlets, the sixth much larger and ovate, the 

 seventh broader and outwardly indented, the lowest being narrow and linear ; beyond 

 are four small decreasing subapical white spots, followed by a submarginal row of 

 ill-defined very slender whitish lunules, the upper ones being almost obsolete, and all 

 inwardly-bordered by dentate lunules and outwardly by a lunular line blacker than 

 the ground-colour. Hindwing with a transverse inner-discal macular white band, 

 extending from middle of the costa to submedian veinlet opposite base of the 

 abdomen ; beyond which is a submarginal row of small narrow white quadro-lunate 

 marks, their inner edge each being defined by a dentate black spot ; the outer discal 

 and marginal interspaces traversed by broad dentate lunules, blacker than the 

 ground-colour. Underside ochreous-red ; with white markings as above, but more 

 prominently defined. Forewing also with the middle of the disc to the posterior 

 margin suffused with purplish-black ; two lower outer marginal rows of white lunules, 

 which latter are suffused with pale pink ; the cell streak is indented by a black ringlet 

 mark. Hindtving also with five small subbasal black spots on a grey ground-colour ; 

 the inner edge of the white discal band and also of the submarginal white dentate 

 lunules distinctly black spotted ; the medial discal area traversed by a row of rounded 

 spots (blackish in the male, dusky red in the female), and the outer margin by a 

 pinkish white lunular line. Body and palpi above black ; beneath, and legs beneath 

 white ; legs above, pale brown ; antennse black, tipt with red. 



