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the spot in the cell extending from the subcostal nervure to the costa. 

 Hindwing with the oval pale yellow discal patch of the upperside developed 

 into a broad anteriorly-increasing discal chrome-yellow band extending 

 from the abdominal margin to the costa, but with a break between the 

 submedian and internal nervures. Palpi, thorax, and abdomen above and 

 below clothed with bronzy-green iridiscent hairs ; antenna with shaft black, 

 club broken off. 



The Rev. Walter A. Hamilton, who obtained the two specimens 

 above described, possesses the wings only of a third specimen placed 

 between tale of what appears to be the male of this species captured 

 in the same locality. In the forewing there are two small well-separated 

 spots in the cell instead of one large one, the two spots below are smaller, 

 the spot in the submedian interspace entirely wanting ; otherwise as in 

 the female. This specimen does not apparently possess any secondary 

 sexual characters. 



I do not know any near ally to P. sarala. The shape of the wings 

 agrees with that of the species of the genus Parnara, the probable male, 

 having the forewing less broad, the apex more acute and the outer margin 

 more straight and inwardly oblique than in the female." (de Nicvville, I. c.) 



65.-PARNARA PARCA, DE NICEVILLE. 



Parnara parca, de Niceville, Journal, Bombay, Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iv, 

 p. 174, pi. B, fig. 10, $. (1889). 



" Habitat : Sikkim, Khasi Hills. 



Expanse : $ , i .9 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside, both wings deep vinous-brown. 

 Forewing, with three small subapical spots, forming half a circle ; two 

 elongated well-separated spots at the end of the discoidal cell ; a rhom- 

 boidal spot near the middle of the second median interspace ; another 

 occupying a similar position in the first median interspace, anteriorly and 

 posteriorly bounded by the second and first median nervules, its inner 

 end well rounded, its outer end convex and the lower corner produced ; 

 a rounded spot in the submedian interspace touching that nervule a little 

 beyond its middle all these spots semi-transparent lustrous white ; cilia 

 from the inner angle to the second median nervule dull ochreous, ante- 

 riorly of the colour of the wing. Hindwing with five nearly equal-sized 

 spots forming a rough oval on the disc, the two lowest spots nearer together 

 than the rest ; these spots are translucent white in some lights, metallic 

 pale brassy-greenish in others ; cilia broadly rich chrome-yellow from 

 the anal angle to the termination of the third median nervule, thence to 

 the apex of the wing vinous-brown. Underside, both wings of the colour 

 of the upperside. Forewing with the spots as on the upperside : the dull 

 ochreous cilia of the upperside pale clear yellow, that colour extending 

 a little distance on to the wing. Hindwing also with the spots as above ; 



