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numerous more or less (juadrate large orange spots disposed over the 

 disk ; the base of the wing clothed with long fur-like orange setse. 

 Cilia broadly orange, just marked with black at the end of the 

 veins. Underside : fore wing with the ground-colour paler, the 

 spots as above, the inner margin below the submedian nervure 

 ochreous, with two obscure ochreous diffused spots placed one above 

 the other near the base of the wing in the submedian interspace. 

 Hind wing with the colour of the ground apparently reversed, being 

 orange, leaving a broad irregular black outer margin ; a large black 

 spot at the end of the cell, and a series of eight black spots placed 

 one in each interspace (except the uppermost and lowest interspaces, 

 which have two each) round the cell. Head black, marked with 

 whitish at the base of the antennae. Antenn<B with the shaft above 

 and club entirel}^, except the tip, creamy white, the shaft below and 

 tip of club black. Palpi whitish, marked anteriorly with three 

 black lines, which meet at the apex. Thorax clothed above with long 

 ferruginous setse. Abdomen black, ringed with orange. — Female. 

 Differs only from the male in being larger. 



P.Jlavocincta is the largest species of the genus described from 

 India. It is most nearly allied to P. pulomaya, Moore, and P. su- 

 mitra, Moore ; but differs from both in the very large size of the 

 orange spots on the hind wing ou the upperside, these spots on the 

 underside coalescing and occupying the greater portion of the wing, 

 thus reducing the black ground-colour of the upperside to a band 

 on the outer margin and to nine discal spots ; in the two species 

 just mentioned there is no tendency to this feature, the orange 

 spots heing all comparatively small and well separated, and the base 

 of the wing is black. The cilia in P.Jlavocincta are also very much 

 broader, and orange throughout, except the hases of those cilia at 

 the termination of the veins on the hind wing, which are black. 



Described from a pair in the collection of Mr. A. V. Knyvett and 

 a single male in that of Mr. Otto MoUer, all of which were 

 obtained near Buxa, Bhutan, by the native collectors of those 

 gentlemen. 



Parnara pagana, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 7, <S .) 



Hab. Sikhim. 



Expanse, c? $ , 1'9 to 2-2 inches. 



Male. Upperside : both wings rich dark brown glossed with 

 purple, the base clothed with long deep ochreous-ferruginous setae. 

 Cilia ochreous yellow in the fore wing, becoming orange towards the 

 anal angle in the hind wing. Fore wing with a spot at the end of 

 the cell sometimes almost quadrate, sometimes constricted in the 

 middle and forming a figure of 8, sometimes quite divided into two 

 spots ; three small subapical dots ; three increasing discal spots, the 

 anterior one sometimes absent ; a spot placed above and against the 

 middle of the submedian nervure, usually round, sometimes oval, 

 rarely entirely absent ; all these spots semitransparent yellow. 

 Hind wing unmarked. Underside : both wings ochreous brown 

 without any purple gloss, the yellow setse also absent. Fore wing 



