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XIV. Deseription of a new Nymphaline Butterfly from 
British India. By Hamitron H. Druce, F.LS., etc. 
[Read December 7th, 1910. ] 
PuaTeE XXIX. 
Genus PARHESTINA. 
Parhestina, Moore Lep. Ind., vol. iu, p. 34, 1896. 
Parhestina germyni, n. sp. 
¢. Upperside greenish-white with the veins broadly and increas- 
ingly black to the termen, which is narrowly and evenly black. In 
the forewing, cells 3, 4, 5 and 6 are dusted with black scales beyond 
their middle, thus causing a terminal’ row of 5 elongate oval 
greenish-white spots. A few black scales are scattered about the 
end of the cell, at the base of vein 3, and towards the middle of cell 
1. The dorsum is very narrowly black. In the hindwing the dorsum 
to vein 1 is slightly washed with pale yellow. Underside as above, 
but paler, with the costal margin of the forewing and all the cells of 
the hindwing washed with pale yellow, deepest at the base of the 
costal margin and the dorsum of the hindwing. Antennae black, 
head, thorax, abdomen above and legs clothed with whitish hairs, 
abdomen below pale yellow. 
Expanse 92 mm. 
Hab. Tons VALLEY, CENTRAL HIMALAYAS (4000-7000 
ft.). 
This remarkable insect, two specimens of which were 
captured by Colonel T. Jermyn in June, belongs toa section 
of the genus of which very few examples are known, seems 
to be the most nearly allied to P. mena, Moore (Ann. Nat. 
Hist. 1858, p. 48, Lep. Ind., vol. ui, p. 36, pl. 202, ff. 1, 1a), 
which was described from an unknown locality, but has since 
been found at Hong Kong by Mr. J. J. Walker and placed 
in the British Museum. 
P. nicevillei, Moore, from Chumba, N.W. Himalayas, is 
another allied form (Lep. Ind., vol. iii, p. 37, pl. 202, ff. 2, 
2a), and a reference to these figures will show that we have 
here quite a different insect. Colonel Jermyn writes that 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1911.—PART I. (MAY) 
