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submarginal white line, maculate and interrupted towards costa ; 

 both wings with a narrow black-edged fulvous marginal band. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 36 millim. 



4697. Parthenodes vagalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1530 ; C. fyS. no. 4401. 



Olive-brown suffused with fuscous ; head and thorax much 



marked with white ; abdomen ringed with white. Fore wing with 



the basal area suffused with white ; a subbasal white line bidentate 



Parthenodes vagalis, $ . 



in cell ; a sinuous dark-edged antemedial white line ; the medial 

 area white ; a dark-edged white postmedial line angled outwards 

 below costa, running with a double curve to vein 2, then retracted 

 in another double curve to lower angle of cell, and very acutely 

 angled outwards above inner margin, some white on its inner side 

 below costa ; a minutely waved dark-edged submarginal white line 

 sending two fasciae inwards above middle. Hind wing with 

 obscure white subbasal line; the medial area white, with olive 

 discocellular spot, defined on inner side by a black-edged oblique 

 pale line from cell to inner margin, on outer side by a similar line 

 with fuscous suffusion beyond it, angled outwards on vein 3 and 

 terminating at anal angle ; a submarginal black-edged white band 

 with a small dentition at vein 6, interrupted by a black spot at 

 vein 4, and expanding slightly towards anal angle. 



Hab. Punjab ; Dharmsala; Nilgiris ; Java. Exp., <$ 26, § 26- 

 32 millim. 



4698. Parthenodes aurantialis, Stuinli. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 304. 



Differs from vagalis in the ground-colour being bright orange, 

 the black lines and white markings more sharply defined. Fore 

 wing with the angle of the medial band on vein 1 more acute ; the 

 white streaks from the submarginal band almost touching the post- 

 medial curved band. Hind wing with a prominent black spot on 

 the submarginal band opposite the angulation of the margin ; both 

 wings with prominent orange marginal band ; the cilia white, with 

 black line at base. 



Hab. KMsis. Exp. 22-30 millim. 



*4699. Parthenodes ? gangeticalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863. 

 pp. 453, 485, pi. 18, fig. 5 (nee 4) ; C. # S. no. 4398. 



Pale brown, the wings suffused with golden yellow. Fore wing 

 with dark-edged subbasal white band running out to a very acute 

 angle on median nervure and slightly angled on vein 1 ; an ante- 



