PAEASA. — NAT ADA. 7 



tinted with stramineous; fringe brown: primaries with a ferruginous subcostal diffused 

 streak: body testaceous ; anterior coxse and femora ferruginous ; tibiae banded with purplish 

 brown. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 

 Bhotau (Lidclerdale) . 



Parasa bicolor. (Plate CII. fig. 11.) 

 Neoera bicolor, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1142. n. 7 (1355). 



Primaries above bright pea-green ; costal margin ochrcous ; an oval red-brown spot near 

 the base of the third median branch, and five or six others in an interrupted curved line 

 across the disk ; fringe externally whitish, tipped with purplish brown : thorax pea-green ; 

 abdomen and secondaries pale sericeous chocolate-brown. Under surface sericeous pale 

 chocolate-brown, the external areas of the wings still paler. Expanse of wings 31 millim. 



North India. 



NEOMIRESA, Bull. 

 (Nyssia, Herr.-Sch.*) 



Neomiresa herbifera. (Plate CII. fig. G.) 

 Nyssia herbifera, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1136. n. 9 (1855). 



Wings and abdomen dark chocolate-brown, but the primaries with the basal three 

 fourths paler and enclosing a diffused grass-green spot ; thorax grass-green : under surface 

 uniformly chocolate-brown. Expanse of wings 33 millim. 



Nepal (Hardwicke). 



NATADA, Walk. 



Natada rufescens. (Plate CII. fig. 10.) 

 Natada rufescens, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1109. n. 1 (1855). 



Primaries sericeous, copper-brown; basal third darker and bounded externally by a 

 nearly straight transverse blackish line ; a second ill-defined oblique zigzag line just beyond 

 the middle, a third submarginal distinct transverse line from the costa near the apex to 

 the outer margin near external angle ; fringe tipped with blackish : secondaries paler than 

 primaries with the exception of the fringe: head and antennae red-brown; thorax and 

 posterior margin of collar red; abdomen chocolate-brown, with a red dorsal stripe towards 

 the base. Under surface of wings and pectus pale cupreous brown ; venter chocolate-brown. 

 Expanse of wings 35 millim. 



North India. 



* In his Catalogue Walker adopted both Necera and Nyssia, whilst at the same time admitting in 

 a footnote his knowledge that they were preoccupied. 



