408 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [ Nov. 5, 
LIMACODID&. 
THosEA RARA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 9.) 
Of a uniform clear slaty-grey colour, underside slightly the 
darker, head pale yellowish grey ; fore wings covered with black 
atoms, and with a broad blackish discal band from the costa before 
the apex to the hinder margin one third from the hinder angle, 
edged with whitish on its inner side; a paler shade on the outside 
of the band, and the veins near the margin also whitish, making a 
broad macular marginal band. 
Hind wings, wings below, body, and legs unmarked. 
Expanse of wings 13 inch. 
” Hab. Thyetmeyo, October 1887. One fine example received 
from Mr. Noble. 
Allied to 7’. lesa, but differs from it in the fore wing having a 
broad blackish discal band with a pale inner border, this band in 
T. lesa being very slender, incurved, and without any pale border. 
Parasa FuMosA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 12.) 
Palpi black, pale chrome-yellow beneath, shaft of antennz black, 
pectinations reddish brown, head and thorax green; sides, hinder 
part of thorax, and abdomen above dark fuliginous black ; sides of 
abdomen chrome-yellow; wings fuliginous black, but much paler 
than the colour of the abdomen; central portion of hind wings pale 
yellowish ; veins of both wings black, rather prominently so ; costal 
line of fore wings and fringe black, latter interlined at its base with 
a whitish line. 
Underside: wings same as above, slightly paler; face, pectus, and 
body black, the chrome-yellow on the sides of the abdomen covering 
most of the under portions, but this does not occur in all the speci- 
mens; legs black, with a reddish tinge. 
Expanse of wings 15%; inch. 
Hab. Nilgiri Hills. Three specimens received from Mr. Hamp- 
son. 
An abnormally coloured species of the P. lepida group, unlike 
any previously described. 
CANIA PULLIGONIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. figs. 7, 8.) 
Male. Fore wings dark violet-brown covered with brown atoms, 
outer and hinder borders and base yellowish, an indistinct yellowish 
suffused spot at the end of the cell, and two brown lines from the 
hinder margin—the first medial, the second at one third from the 
hinder angle, meeting at the costa, very near to, but just before the 
apex ; the first line nearly straight, the second curved outwardly, 
corresponding to the margin, and is in point of fact submarginal ; 
antennz pale greyish brown; head, body, hind wings above and 
below, and legs yellowish, of the same colour as the border of the 
fore wings; fore wings below blackish brown, with the ves and 
outer and hinder margins broadly yellowish. 
Female. Fore wings reddish brown, with two yellow lines crossing 
the wing from the hinder margin and meeting at the apex, as in 
