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to a conspicuous tail. Antennae fine and distinctly clubbed " 



(Wood- Mason.) 



A single species only is known, constituting the type of the 

 genus. 



197. Parantirrhcea marshalli, Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B. 1880, p. 250 ; 

 M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 262 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 

 1893-96, p. 140, pi. 132, figs. 3, 3 a, J . 



S . " Upper side, both wings dark fuscous suffused with rich deep 

 violet. Fore wing with an outwardly and forwardly arched sub- 

 crescentic pale violet or mauve band, commencing beyond the middle 

 of the wing at the costal nervure, terminating at the inner angle, 

 and crossed obliquely by a series of three small white spots disposed 

 in a straight line parallel to the outer margin, and placed upon 

 folds of as many consecutive interspaces, the last being between 

 the second and third median nervules. Hind wing relatively 

 longer tailed than in Melanitis ismene, Cramer, with the mem- 

 branous parts of the divergent tail almost wholly formed by the 

 produced wing-membrane of the interspace between the second and 

 third median nervules, a very narrow anterior membranous edging 

 being contributed by the interspace next in front ; and with 

 rather more than the basal two-thirds of its length in front of the 

 discoidal nervure and subcostal nervure ochreous. Underside : 

 both wings ochreous, obscurely striated with a deeper shade of 

 the same colour, and marked with a submarginal series of incon- 

 spicuous brown specks, the probable rudiments of ocelli." ( Wood- 

 Mason.) 



Exp. 2*4 inches (61 mm.). 



Hob. Trevandrum, Travancore. 



Genus ANADEBIS. 



Theope, Moore (nee Bouhleday), Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, 



p. 234. 

 Anadebis, Butler, A. M. N. H. (3) xx, 1867, p. 50. 

 Zethera, M. $ de N. {nee Felder) Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 97. 

 Euplceainima, Holl. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 113 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ind. i, 1890-1892, p. 155. 



Type, A. himachala, Butler, from the N.E. Himalayas. 



Bange. Indo-Malayan Eegion. 



J 2 . Pore wing very broadly triangular, costa arched from 

 base, termen convex or straight, dorsum slightly sinuous, apex and 

 tornus well-marked ; discoidal cell very broad and short, not half 

 the length of wing ; discocellulars oblique, upper and middle sub- 

 equal, lower very long ; vein 12 and median vein scarcely thickened 

 towards base, subcostal strongly arched, veins 10 and 11 free. 

 Hind wing broadly ovate ; cell short, not half length of wing ; 

 veins 3 and 4 emitted close together, but 3 a little before apex of 



