408 COL. c. swiNHOE ON NEW [Nov. 5, 



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Thosea KARA, 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 

 atoais, 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 1| inch. 

 ■* Bab. Thyetmeyo, October 1887. One fine example received 

 from Mr. Noble. 



Allied to T. loesa, but differs from it in the fore wing having a 

 broad blackish discal band with a pale inner border, this band in 

 T. loesa 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 antennae black, 

 pectinations reddish brown, head and thorax green ; sides, hinder 

 part of thorax, and abdomen above dark fuliginous black ; sides of 

 abdomen chrome-yellovr ; 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 l-j2j|-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 ; 

 antennae 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 veins 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 ajiex, as in 



