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111. Paradromulia purpurea spec. uov. 



Foreiring: brown with a purplish gloss, finely striated with darker ; first line 

 at one-fourth, angled on subcostal vein, theu straight, nearly vertical, to inner 

 margin, not curved inwards towards base, as in ambigtia Warr., preceded by a dark, 

 more difluse, shade ; outer line from three-fifths of costa, dcntate-Iunulate, marked 

 darker on the veins, slightly bent outwards at vein 4, but not angled, nor sinuate 

 below middle ; middle line from costa near first line, passing through the black 

 elongated cell-spot, below the middle parallel to outer line ; between the cell-spot 

 and outer line is a square deep fulvous spot ; the shade following outer line is 

 developed beneath costa into a triangular dark blotcli stretching towards apex ; 

 submarginal line preceded by a dark shade, whitish and more conspicuous above 

 inner margin ; a square white apical blotch ; a dark marginal festoon ; fringe 

 dark lirown. 



Hiiiduing: dull tawny ; antemedian line straight, postmedian slightly curved, 

 punctulate on veins, the shade beyond it stronger ; a dark shade before submarginal 

 line, the area beyond it more i)nrplish ; cell-spot annular. 



Underside deep purjilish grey, towards hindmargin darker, becoming purplish 

 black on forewing before the snow-white apical sj)ot, which is narrowed to vein 6 ; 

 cell-spot of forewing very large, round, deep black, followed by a whitish si)ace ; of 

 hindwing much smaller, oval. 



Face brown above, ochreous below ; palpi externally brown ; vertex ochreous ; 

 antennae tawny, spotted with dark ; thorax purplish cinereous ; abdomen cinereous, 

 purplish-tinged on basal segments. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



4 '^ ?. 



112. Paralcis laeta spec. nov. 



Forewing : bright yellowish ochreous ; striae and markings black ; a small 

 black blotch at base of costa hardly reaching inner margin ; a broad oblique curved 

 fascia just beyond ; a blotch at middle of costa, containing a pale linear mark on 

 discocellnlar ; a longer, more broken costal blotch at two-thirds, edged inwardly by a 

 black line, and sinuate inwards below middle, accompanied by black striae and spots, 

 to a larger blotch near middle of inner margin ; submarginal line Innular, interrupted, 

 preceded by a dark shade inwardly suffused with tawny, and forming at costa two 

 black lunules ; marginal area blackish, broadly interrupted at apex and between 

 veins 3 and 4 ; black marginal lunules ; fringe dark, except at apex and between 

 veins 3 and 4. 



Hindwing : basal half ochreous, with coarse black speckling and a black 

 ocelloid cell-spot ; an indistinctly double black postmedian line ; the rest as in 

 forewing. 



Underside duller, with the markings reproduced. 



Palpi ochreous, externally blackish ; head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous, 

 yellower in the S ; the shoulders, patagia, and basal segments of abdomen speckled 

 with black ; foretibiae and -tarsi blackish with ochreous joints. 



Expanse of wings : d, 39 mm. ; ¥,30 mm. 



1 c?, 1 ?. 



113. Paralcis lithina spec. nov. 



Forewing : pale olive-ochreous, tinged with darker olive, along inner and 

 hindmargin with slight dark speckling ; first line black from one-fourth of costa, 



