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LTMACODID^. 
SUSICA, Walk. 
Susica pallida. (Plate CII. fig. 4.) 
Susica pallida, Wall-er, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1114. n. 1 (1855). 
"Whity brown, sericeous : primaries speckled with dark brown and crossed in the middle 
by an oblique strijse of the same colour, beyond which the ground-colour becomes very pale 
stramineous; head and thorax whitish stramineous. Under surface pale testaceous^ primaries 
with greyish discoidal area. Expanse of wings 25 millim. 
Nepal [Hardwicke). 
The type is in a damaged condition ; it is possible that the intensity of the colouring 
may have been lost, but the specimen does not appear to have faded. 
PARAS A, Walk. 
Parasa repanda. (Plate CII. fig. 5.) 
Keaera repanda, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1141. n. 6 (1855). 
Primaries above pea-green*; an externally bilobed basal dark chocolate -brown patch 
edged with white ; costal margin dark brown ; external border chocolate-brown, bounded 
internally by a pure white stripe and sparsely irrorated with white ; base of fringe pale : 
secondaries sericeous whity brown, with broad diffused rufous-brown costal and external 
borders : thorax pea-green, the palpi, frons, and antennae chocolate-brown ; abdomen rufous- 
brown. All the wings below stramineous, with broad rufous-brown borders (the primaries 
probabh^ greenish in fresh examples) : body below chocolate-brown, varied with black. 
Expanse of wings 50 millim. 
North India. 
Parasa pastoralis. (Plate CII. fig. 9.) 
Parasa pastoralis, Butler, Ann. S,' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 63. n. 4 (1880). 
Primaries above with a large basal sandy-yellowish patch, crossed close to the base by a 
zigzag red-brown line ; a subbasal arched purplish-brown belt, spotted with green and not 
quite reaching the costal or inner margins ; the whole area between the latter and external area 
bright emerald-green, forming an irregular belt constricted below the middle ; external area 
limited internally by a sinuous ferruginous line, sandy yellowish or testaceous, traversed by a 
dentate- sinuate submarginal ferruginous line ; fringe brownish : secondaries pale stramineous, 
with pinky-brownish fringe : thorax bright green, the shoulders and a dorsal streak brown ; 
abdomen testaceous. Under surface of wings sordid sulphur-yellow, the borders slightly 
* The type having faded, Walker described it as " Pale greenish yellow." 
