174 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



' Sub-Family ERONIINiE. 



Genus PARERONIA. 



Enmin, Hiibner (part), Samml. Exot. Schmett. (1816). Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. 1847, p. G4. 



Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 387. 

 Valeria, Horsiield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 139 (1829). (Inadmiss., being name of the Fabrician species.) 

 Ncpheronia, Butler, Cist. Ent. 1870, p. 38. 

 Pareronia, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 276 (1907). 



Forewing. Costa strongly arched, apex blunt, lower margin slightly rounded 

 near the base, slightly concave beyond its middle, exterior margin nearly straight, 

 costal vein extending two-thirds, first and second sub-costal branches emitted close 

 together, at one-fourth before end of cell, discocellulars oblique, veins 6 and 7 from 

 upper end of cell, upper discocellular therefore absent, middle strongly concave, lower 

 nearly straight, cell more than half the length of the wing, veins 8 and 9 stalked, 

 thrown oft" from 7 from beyond its middle. 



Ilmclwing with the costa and apex slightly rounded, the exterior margin evenly 

 curved, the anal angle obtuse, cell long, nearly extending to two-thirds of the wing, 

 pre-costal nervure short and curved upwards, costal vein much curved towards its end, 

 discocellulars sub-equal and very oblique. Thorax hairy, abdomen long, palpi short, 

 thickly clothed with scales, hairy beneath, legs long and slender, antennae long, with a 

 lengthened club. 



Type, Valeria, Fabricius, from Java. 



PAREEONIA AVATAR. 

 Plate 606, figs. 1, ^ , la, ?, lb, ^ , Ic, $ (Wet-season Brood), Id, ^, le, $ (Dry-season Brood). 

 Eronki Avatar, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. i. p. 61, pi. 2a, fig. 1, $ (1857). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1867, p. 387. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 59. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 419. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 311. 

 Ncpheronia Avatar, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 64. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1903, 



p. 101. 

 Pareronia Avatar, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 277 (1907). 

 Ncjilieronia Avatar Terina, Fruhstorfer, I.e. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. U, la?, ib^, Ic?). 

 Imago. — Male. Upperside whitish, faintly tinted with blue. Foreicing. Veins, 

 costal band and outer marginal band black, the median vein prominently black, the 

 band very broad at the apex, narrowing gradually to the lower angle, its inner side 

 with long teeth running in on the veins. liinclwing also with black veins and a 

 narrow black outer marginal band, its inner edge with angles on the veins. Cilia 



