BY MISS A. E. PROUT. 467 



key in Cat. Lep. Phal., iv. By Sir G. Hampson's MSS key 

 to the Ophiderinae ("Xoctmnae") this genus would fall 

 with Diopa Wlkr.. and, were it not that the difference of 

 region renders any close affinity extremely improbable, it 

 might have been possible to place parthenia in Diopa ; but 

 Diopa the hind margin of fore wing is more normal, the 

 areole is larger and there are a number of other minor 

 differences which seem to jnstifv the erection of a distinct 

 ffenas in view of the strong pi-obability that when the rf is 

 known and the genitalia can be examined the resemblance 

 between Diopa and Paradiopa will be found to be com- 

 paratively superficial. 



78. Mtmeugo^ species. 



Mt. Murud, 6500 feet. November — 1 9 • 



This specimen appears to belong to an undescribed species, 

 but as it is a single 9 in i'"^t miite first rate condition 

 and is a verv small, inronsnicuous insect it has not seemed 

 advisable to describe it. "By structure it almost certainly 

 belongs to the genus Mimrnqoa TTmpsn. 



74. ToLPiA species. 



Mt. Murnd, 6500 feet, November — 1 Q. 



Like the foregoinf?, this may probably belong to a new 

 snecies. but for similar reasons I refrain from describing it. 

 It appears nearest to T. arqentescens Hmpsn. (Journ. Bomb. 

 Soc, xxi, p. 1234, 1912, Ceylon), and plumb efusa Hmpsn., 

 (I.e., xvii, p. 650. 1907, Cevlon,"* of one or other of which it 

 mav quite possibly be the Malayan representative. 



75. Varicosia venata Hmpsn. clavifera subsp. n. 



9 .50 mm. 



Differs from the typical 9 in the larger size, the rather 

 more kidney-shaped (more distally indented) discal spot, in 

 the presence of a strong dark claviform spot on distal edge 

 of antemedial line and in having the posterior fourth of fore 

 wing pa'er, more contrasted with the anterior three-fourths, 

 than in typical venata, (The Entom., Ivii, p. 132, 1924, 

 Ceylon) ; subspecies clavifera also differs in having the hind 



