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of the specimens from Japan agree Avell with Mabille's description of var. 

 qiiinquepuncta. 



The only Chinese examples that I have received are from Omei-shan and 

 Ichang ; these are slightly darker than either Japanese or Indian specimens 

 and the spots are somesirhat larger. 



Toona, Moore, occurs in Sikkim up to 7000 feet from April to November. 

 It is also found in the Khasia Hills and Cachar. I am quite unable to 

 separate Japanese or Chinese pellucida from Sikkim fooua, and believe the 

 former to be specifically identical with the latter. 



Dorries and Graeser met with P. jjcllucida in various places in Amiuiand. 



Lislribution. Western and Central China, Japan, Corea, Amurland, and 

 the Himalayas. 



Parnara jansonis. (Plate XLII. fig. 12, c? .) 



Puiiipliila jansonis, Buller, Cist. Etitoni. ii. p. 281 (1878) ; Pryer, llliop. Niliou. p. 31, 

 pi. X iig. 12 (1889). 



•' J. Bronzj- olive-brown, with soidid white fringes to the wings; primaries with two small spots 

 placed obliquely towards the end of the cell; five dots between the subcostal branches (the 

 lirst two very small and w'ide apart) and an oblique series of five discal spots (the upper four 

 in a decreasing series, pointing towards the apex, the first small and linear, just above the 

 middle of the submedian vein), hyaline white ; a slender oblique brand connecting the first 

 and second spots ; secondaries with four small spots, tlie first and last punctiform, in a zigzag 

 series not far from tbe apex ; body normal, palpi sordid white ; ])rimaries below with the 

 costal third, excepting at apex, densely covered with sordid ochraceous scales: hyaline sj)ots 

 as above, an additional white spot between the fiist and second of the ohlicpie di>cal scries ; 

 secondaries sordid ochraceous, w illi a bioad grc\ isli-hrown pyramidal area on tlie intcrno- 

 niedian intcr.-j)ace ; a silvery-\\ liite spot in tl.o cell, and four towards apex, the st'cond of 

 wliicli is renitorm ; body below sordid greyish. 



" Expanse of wings I inch y lines.'' {Bull, r, I. c.) 



This species is very closely allied lo 1*. j)C'llucida, hut it differs on the 

 n|)per surface in liaving only two longitudinal s|)()ls on (he secondaries; it 

 lias a conspicuous wliite spot towards base of secondaries on under surface, as 

 in Parnara sinensis, and all the spots on the under surface of these wings 

 are uhite and not sid)hyaline as in P. pellucida. 



.\p})ears to l)e an exceedingly rare insect. The type was tak(Mi " on the 

 Koshinknido in ShiirnHl/nke." The only other specimens that I have an\ 

 kiio\\lc(lg(; of are two in the late Henry Fryer's collection from Ikao, Centni' 

 .la|)aii, and one male taken l)y myself at (iensan, ('orea, in .June. 



