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the chrome-yellow cilia of the upperside is pale clear yellow on the under- 

 side, that colour extending irregularly on to the wing membrane beyond. 

 Antennae with the shaft black, becoming ochreous just before the black 

 club ; abdomen tipped with long chrome-yellow hairs ; rest of body, head and 

 palpi more or less concolorous with the wings ; femur and tibia of legs 

 black and clothed with very long thick and closely-set black hairs, tarsus 

 anteriorly black, posteriorly deep chrome-yellow, naked. 



I place this species but doubtfully in the genus Parnara, all the legs 

 being strongly setose, being a character not found in any species of that 

 genus known to me. A somewhat similar character is found in the males 

 only of Abaratha syrichthus, Felder, A. ransonnetii, Felder, and A.taylorii, 

 mihi, which possess a tuft of black hairs over a quarter of an inch in length 

 attached to the coxae of the front legs and ordinarily lying along the 

 pectus of the butterfly between the middle and hindlegs. These bunches 

 of hairs are probably scent fans and are, moreover, probably susceptible 

 of erection and expansion, but accurate observations on the subject on live 

 specimens are desirable. In describing the genus Abaratha, * Mr. Moore 

 states that the legs are naked, this is certainly not the case with the front 

 legs of the males of the type species. Mr. Distant f is also incorrect in 

 saying that the hindlegs of the type species of the genus are strongly 

 pilose; this applies to the fore legs of the male only. It is also quite 

 certain that the species Mr. Distant places in the genus Abaratha (sura, 

 Moore, and pygela, Hewitson), possess a clothing quite different to that 

 setose found in the true Abarathas : these species, I think, should be 

 placed in another genus. In the genus Casyapa, Kirby, the males have 

 the tibia of the hindlegs extremely hairy. 



P. parca is described from a single specimen in my collection obtained 

 by the Rev. Walter A. Hamilton in the Khasi Hills, who possesses the 

 wings of a second example placed between tale from the same region, 

 I also possess another female from Sikkim. I do not know any species 

 at all similarly marked to P. parca' ". (de Niccville, I. c.) 



GENUS XVIII. SUASTUS. 



Suastus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 168 (1881). 



" Wings small ; forewing elongated, triangular ; costa very slightly 

 arched at the base ; apex pointed ; exterior margin short, oblique, and 

 slightly convex ; cell two-thirds the wing, clavate ; first, second and 

 third subcostals at equal distances apart, fourth half-way between third 

 and fifth ; disco-cellulars inwardly oblique, upper bent inward near the 

 subcostal, upper radial from its angle, lower from their middle ; the 

 middle median at one-fifth, lower at three-fifths before end of the cell ; 

 submedian straight : hindwing short, broadly oval ; apex and exterior 

 margin very convex ; cell broad ; second subcostal at one-third before 



* Lep. Ceylon, vol. i, p. 181 (1881). f Rhop. Malay., p. 390 (1886). 



