248 J. 'WoodiMsi&Qn— Description of Paraiitirrboea Marshalli. [No, 4, 



10. LiBTTHEA EOHiNi, Marshall. 



? . TJpPEESrpE brown with pure white markings. Foreiving with an oval 

 spot filling the end of the cell, a large quadrate spot on the disc between 

 the first and second median nervules, two spots coalescing one on each side 

 of the upper discoidal nervule, and a spot near the costa divided into three 

 by the subcostal nervules. Hindwing with a large square spot on the 

 costa, a straight median band across the wing below the- cell not reaching 

 the inner or outer margins and cut by the discoidal and three median 

 nervules, and a small spet above between the subcostal nervules. All the 

 spots and bands pure white. 



Hab. Khasi hills ; taken near Shillong in May by Mr. J. P. Cock. 



With the exception of Euplma adamsoni, Lethe siderea, and L. satya- 

 vati, all the species above characterised will be figured in the descriptive 

 hand-book of the butterflies of the Indian region which we shall shortly 

 publish under the title of ' The Butterflies of India, Burmah, and Ceylon' ; 

 and in which fuller detailed descriptions of all will be found. 



XXIV. — Description o/ Parantirrhoea Marshalli, tlie Type of a neiv Genus 

 and Species of Wiopaloceroiis Lepidoptera from South India. — 

 By J. Wood-Masost, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



Family NYMPHALID^. 



Subfamily Satyeinje. 

 Parantirrlioea* n. gen. 

 (?. Anterior wings triangular; anterior margin moderately and re- 

 gularly arched ; apical angle acute ; outer margin almost straight, being 

 only just perceptibly convex ; inner angle rounded ; inner margin sinuous, 

 being lobed at the base much as in the males of Glerome and Winona, 

 genera of MoKPHiNiE ; subcostal vein 4-branched, the first branch given 

 off before, and the second beyond, the end of the discoidal cell, the first, 

 second, and third coalescing successively and respectively with the costal 

 vein, the first, and the second, and all tliree in turn becoming free and 

 running off at a tangent, like the costal vein, to the anterior margin, the 

 fourth being perfectly free from its origin and running to the apical angle ; 

 posterior discocellular veinlet long, very slightly concave outwards, almost 

 straight, intermediate one not quite half the length of the posterior, ante- 

 * From wapd, by the side of, and Antirrhoea, generic name. 



