Genera and Species 0/ Pjralidaj. 203 



the same ; the white markings distinct, the dark ones hardly 

 visible. 



Expanse of wings 12 millim. 



One female, Cherrapunji. 



Genus Paracymoriza, Warr. 

 Paracymoriza semialhida^ sp. n. 



Fore wings with the two lines and submarginal row of 

 white spots as in P. stellata, but the whole wing suffused with 

 smoky black, beneath which the course of the two lines can 

 be traced ; the submarginal white spots remaining clear ; 

 fringes and fringe-line as in stellata^ but all much darker. 

 Hind wings pure white; basal patch black, edged with a 

 white black-margined line ; a round black discal spot ; apical 

 region occupied by a large oval black blotch, nearly touching 

 on the outside a submarginal streak of dull bronzy scales 

 edged with black, and preceded by an oblique black line from 

 the costa, which forms part of the dark submarginal line, 

 which is only distinct again on inner margin above anal 

 angle ; fringes dark bronzy in the apical half, whitish beyond ; 

 the hind mai-gin of the hind wings is not crenulated as in 

 stellata. Head and thorax blackish ; abdomen silky whitish. 

 Underside with all the markings duller. 



Expanse of wings 18 millim. 



One female from the Khasias. 



Paracymoriza stellata, sp. n. 



Ground-colour sandy ochreous ; basal patch blackisli 

 fuscous, edged by a subangulated, whitish, dark-margined 

 line, and traversed by an indistinct wiiitish line ; exterior 

 line at three fourths, whitish from the costa and parallel to 

 hind margin to below middle, then turning rectangularly 

 basewards, curved upwards and basewards again, then again 

 bent at right angles, running to inner margin in middle ; 

 except for the costal arm it is sandy ochreous, like the ground- 

 colour, with slightly darker edges; the middle space is 

 whitish towards costa and suffused with dark grey on the 

 inner margin ; apical three fourths of hind margin occupied 

 by a brown-black patch, through which there runs parallel to 

 the hind margin and near it a row of snow-white dots, of 

 which the third from the top is much the largest ; fringes 

 white, with a dark spot at apex and a dark blotch in the 

 lower part, with a blackish basal line, preceded by a fine pale 

 one. Hind wings with dark basal patch as in fore wings ; 



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