PARUM. 215 



longed, resembling a tooth-brush. Retinaculum and frenu- 

 lum normal. Proximal pair of spurs absent from hind tibia. 

 Abdominal tergites with the under scales mostly long spini- 

 form but very weak, spines at the edges also prolonged, 

 not strong, scarcely different from pointed scales. Expanse : 

 60 mm. 



<£. Tenth abdominal tergite (fig. 51 B) long, slender, trian- 

 gular, gradually narrowing to a point and curving downwards ; 

 sternite represented by a low transverse ridge, which is 

 feebly sinuate mesially. Clasper sole-shaped, rounded apically, 

 hairy on the inner surface ; harpe pointed distad, slightly 

 curved mesiad, surface somewhat concave, edge irregularly 

 sinuate (fig. 51 C). Penis-sheath (fig. 51 D) with the apical 

 edge bent proximad and produced into a denticulate lobe on 

 one side. 



$. Eighth abdominal tergite mesially less strongly chitinized 

 than at the sides. Vaginal plate (fig. 51 E) without special 

 armature, lateral edges of orifice somewhat raised. 



Hob. E. Himalayas (Sikkim). Very rare, and the early 

 stages unknown. 



57. Parum colligata (Walk.). (Fig. 52, <}). 



Daphnusa colligata, Walker, 1856, p. 238 (N. China). 



Parum colligata, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 296; Jordan, 1911. 



p. 242. t, 38 b ; Seitz, 1928, p. 541. 

 Metagastes bieti, Oberthur, 1886, p. 29, pi. i, fig. 2 (Ta-tsien-lu). 



c£$. Upperside. Fore wing ground-colour grey tinged 

 with brown, and with olive-brown and black markings. The 





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Fig. 52. — Parum colligata (Walk.), $. 



outer border from SC 5 to tornus broad and much paler,, 

 limited by a curved grey- white submarginal line. At the 

 apex between SC 5 and SC 4 a rounded blackish spot defined 

 on the inside by grey-white as in porphyria, but much more 

 distinct. A dark brown or blackish longitudinal streak 

 from the submarginal line at R 1 , passing through the lower 

 angle of cell along its lower edge to about the middle, where 



