PnbJ. r. IX. 190H. GEGENES; EOGENES; PAENARA. By P. Mabillk. S49 



37. Genus: CTiegenes Hbn. 



Anteniiiu^ sliuit, liaidly icachiiig one-third of the costa; club strong, ovate, with a short point. 

 Hindtibia with 2 pairs of spurs, c? without stigma. 



G. nostrodamus F. (88 e). Blackish brown, ^ without any spots. Underside of the wings ashy ^^^^i^ 

 grey. Base of hindwing blackish. Between veins 2 — 4 two small pale dots which are hardly visible. 

 $ larger, paler brown, with whitish apical dots and an oblique row of 4 pale yellow, elongate spots bet- 

 ween the veins.') Moreover, there are sometimes 2 light dots between 5 and 6 in the cell. South Europe 

 (France, Italy, Spain), Algeria, Asia Minor and in the North- Western Himalayas. 



G. lefebvrei Rcrmhr. A small species, which is darker and has usually no light dots. Sicily. lefebirei. 



38. Genus: Eogeiies nov. gen. 



Hindwing with rounded distal margin, especially in the ^J, the anal angle being effaced. Vein 2 

 of the forewing towards the middle of the cell. Antennae with ovate club, which is elongate and has no 

 pointed tip. Third segment of palpi prominent. ^ without stigma. 



E. alcides H.-Schaff. (88 e). Wings brown. Forewing with 3 apical dots, near which are placed alcides. 

 beneath two more smaller ones. In the cell a large pale yellow spot, and there is a straight row of 

 3 spots between veins 3 and 1, the posterior spots being the largest. In the $ the spots are larger and 

 there are, moreover, 3 small pale spots below the cell of the hindwing. This wing is uniformly pale ash- 

 grey beneath. We separate this species from Parnara, as its characters do not agree with that genus. 

 Asia Minor, Armenia. — The form arhimani Christ. (88 e) differs from true alcides only in its smaller size arhimani. 

 and the larger spots of the wings. Turkestan, near Buchara, Karategin. 



39. Genus: Parnara Moore. 



A very large genus whose species are found throughout the Old World with the exception of 

 Europe. It is composed of several rather sharply defined sections which may be considered as subgenera. 

 The following key gives the distinguishing characters. On the whole the genus is recognizable by the 

 rather long antennae with their moderately strong club, whose curved tip is pointed and twice the length 

 of the diameter of the incrassate part. The hindtibia has 2 pairs of spurs. 



1. Basal half of hindwing with a hairy, black spot. P. leechi Elw. (88 f). This species differs leechi. 

 from oceia, which is widely distributed in India, in the underside of the hindwing being 

 greenish and not l)lackish. Central and West China. 



Hindwing without pilose or hairj' spot 2. 



2. Forewing of (^^ with black stigma striped with grey, which extends from veni o to the centre 

 of cellule la 3. 



Forewing withoui siigma 6. 



3. Stigma constricted in the middle P. nascens Leech (88 f). Central (hina; June, July. unseens. 



Stigma straight, of even width 4. 



4. HindM'ing above with a row of 4 white dols, one eacli m cellules 2, 3, 4 and .3, (i. I'nderside 



of hindwing blackish, with the spots as above and an additional one in the cell. P. sinensis sine)isis. 

 Mah. (= prominens Moore) (88 f). Kangra: Central China. — The form similis Leech has the similis. 

 dots small and very white, but is hardly a different species from si7ie7isis Mah. 



Hindwing above usually without white dots; on the underside, however, there are 7 white, 

 small dots Ijetween veins 3 — 7 arranged in a semicircle. Another small dot at the base of 

 the cell. $ somewhat larger than ^, with an additional Avhite dot on the forewing in cellule 2. 

 P. mathias F. (= thrax Led.) (88 f, g). South and Central Asia and Africa, nearly everywhere malhias. 

 abundant, in the south throughout the summer. 



Larger (cJ 37 mm, $ 42 mm). Wings delicate, broader. Hindwing more prolonged from 

 veins 4 — 7; with the spots the same as in mathias, but smaller. On the underside the costa and 

 apex of the forewing dirty yellow. Hindwing of the same yellow colour at the base; cellules 1 

 and 1 b yellowish M'hite; dots very small and in a straight line from 2 — 6. Palpi and under- 

 side of abdomen whitish grey. ? somewhat more grey, with distinct white dots on the upper- 



') The row of spots is too oblique in our figure and the apex and anal angle of the fore- resp. hind- 

 wing are too pointed. 



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