108 Col. C. Swinhoe on 



without any gloss : fore wings with a deep black fascia in the 

 central portion of the wing from the base to near the outer 

 margin, running up to near the costa before the apex : hind 

 wings with a very narrow pure white discal band from the 

 costa before the apex to the abdominal margin above the anal 

 angle, where it is broken ; anal angle tilled up by a large 

 blackish patch, slightly darker than the ground-colour of the 

 wing ; cilia brown, with a basal pure white line for a short 

 distance before the anal angle. 



? . Only differs from the male in having an ochreous sub- 

 apical dot and two ochreous discal sj)ots on the fore wings 

 above, as in Parata chromus, Cram. ; below there is an addi- 

 tional white spot or patch near the hinder angle of the fore 

 wings, in continuation of the discal white band of the hind 

 wings. 



Expanse of wings 2-j^(j- inches. 



Brisbane. 1 c? > 5 ? ? . 



Received from my collector in Brisbane as Parata chromus, 

 but it is a true I/asora, and not a Parata^ and it is altogether 

 differently coloured below and is much larger than chromus. 

 It is unnamed in the B. M. 



In vol. ix. p. 407 of the Journal of the Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Mr. dc Niceville says I use Parata in a generic sense 

 while speaking of its subgeneric characters, which really 

 means that 1 adopt the binomial and not the trinomial 

 system; apart from that, it is very difficult to my mind to 

 determine the meaning of the words genus or subgenus. I do 

 but agree with Dr. P. L. Sclater, than whom there is no 

 higher authority, who says * : — " Genera, as we all know, do 

 not exist in nature, and it is a mere matter of convenience 

 how large or how small we make them." How are we to 

 define a genus ? Why should we ignore all secondary sexual 

 characters in forming a genus ? I agree with Meyrick, who 

 says + : — "There is absolutely no scientific justification for 

 this restriction, which would make the classification of some 

 groups of Lcpidoptera quite impracticable ; when such struc- 

 tural characters are found in any instance to assist the 

 definition of natural genera, there is no reason in nature why 

 they should not be employed with perfect freedom." 



Fam. Eupterotidae. 

 12. Eupterote crinita, no v. 

 ^ . Head, thorax, and fore wings dark olive-brown : fore 

 wings crossed by many indistinct dark bands, the most 



* ' Ibis,' 1897, p. 134. 



1 ' Ilaudbook of British Lcpidoptera,' p. 11. 



