Mr. J. Wood-Mason on Parantiirhoea Marslialli. 333 



24. Ephestia alhosparsaj sp. n. (No. 80). 



Allied to E. semirufa^ very similar in general pattern : prima- 

 ries above shining leaden grey, irrorated with white ; an ob- 

 lique white stripe at basal third, immediately followed by a 

 broad externally angulated leaden-grey band ; a faint indi- 

 cation of a reniform spot, owing to the less densely congregated 

 white scales at the end of the cell ; a regular white stripe with 

 leaden-grey internal border parallel to and near the outer 

 margin : secondaries shining browiiish white (like slightly 

 tarnished silver), with snow-white fringe traversed near the 

 base by a slender grey line : thorax grey ; abdomen silvery 

 whitish. Primaries below shining greyish brown 5 secondaries 

 as above, excepting that they are whiter : body below silvery 

 white. Expanse of wings 85 to 9^ lines. 



Two specimens. " Various localities on Hawaii." 



[To be continued.] 



XXXIII. — Description of Parantirrhoea Marslialli, the Type 

 of a neio Genus and Species of Bkopalocerous Lepidoptera 

 from South India. By J. Wood-Mason, Deputy Super- 

 intendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Family Nymphalidse. 



Subfamily Satyrinjs. 



Paeantierh(E4*, gen. nov. 



(J . Anterior wings triangular ; anterior margin moderately 

 and regularly arched ; apical angle acute ; outer margin 

 almost straight, being only just perceptibly convex ; inner angle 

 rounded ; inner margin sinuous, being lobed at the base much 

 as in the males of Clerome and yEmona, genera of Morphinte ; 

 subcostal vein 4-branched, the first branch given off before 

 and the second beyond the end of the discoidal cell, the first, 

 second, and third coalescing successively and respectively 

 with the costal vein, the first and the second and all three in 

 turn becoming free and running off at a tangent, like the 

 costal vein, to the anterior margin, the fourth being perfectly 

 free from its origin and running to the apical angle ; posterior 

 discocellular veinlet long, very slightly concave outwards, 

 almost straight, intermediate one not quite half the length of 



* From napu, by the side of, and Antirrhaa, generic name. 



