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be accompanied by a minute dot, which may or may not be transparent 

 and visible from above. Body clothed above with olive-green scales and 

 setae, lighter below. Palpi mixed luteous and olive-green. Antennae 

 black, broadly half-ringed below before the club with white, with their 

 taper tips ashy. 



Expanse, <f 2'2 ; 9 2 '3 to 2-4 inches. 



One male in forest near Silcuri [Cachar] on nth July. It occurs also 

 in Sibsagar (S. E. Peal), at Shillong, and in Sikkim, where it is quite a 

 common species at low elevations. It is the largest species of the genus 

 known to us." (Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1886, /. c.) 



Also recorded from Kumaon (Doherty) ; and Sikkim (Elwes). 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



46.-PARNARA ORNATA, F ELDER. 



Hespevia ornata, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 515, n. 900, pi. 

 Ixxii, fig. 6, male (1867.) 



Parnara ornata, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1886, p. 382, 

 pi. xviii, fig. 7, ja tf . 



" <f Wings above shining fuscous, dusted at the base with yellowish 

 grey and hairy. Forewing with a partly divided spot in the cell, also two of 

 median size and three small ones only divided by the veins all subhyaline. 

 On the underside the wings are brown, slightly tinged with violet. The 

 forewing close to the cell is faintly dusky, the hindwing has two spots 

 subovate in front, with a third inside them, and six others silvery white in 

 an oblique series beyond the cell, with a bluish diffused border, a dot at end 

 of cell and some small external spots violet white. Palpi and thorax pale 

 yellow. 



Expanse ; i -9 inches, [from figure] . 



Habitat; Buitenzorg, Java." (Felder, I. c.) 



A single male is recorded from Doarband, Cachar, by Messrs. Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville, 1. c. 



In collection Indian Museum. 



47. PARNARA UMA, DE NICEVILLE. 



Parnara ttma, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1888, p. 292, pi. xiii, fig. 9 $. 



" Female. Upperside, both wings rich dark glossy brown, the base 

 clothed with somewhat long greenish-ochreous setae. Cilia ochreous-brown. 

 Forewing with a spot in the discoidal cell divided in the middle by a 

 fold of the wing, its upper portion lengthened, inwardly sharply pointed ; 

 three increasing conjoined subapical spots, the posterior one nearly twice 

 as large as the other two taken together ; a quadrate spot near the middle 

 of the second median interspace, a larger one in the first median interspace 

 placed exactly midway between the spot in the second median interspace 

 and the lower portion of the cell spot, its outer edge highly excavated, 

 its inner edge correspondingly rounded all these spots shining translucent 



