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above middle, and below apex, respectively, not reaching costal patch; a 
faint greyish slightly curved suffusion from tornus to lower angle of cell. 
Cilia pale fuscous-greyish, basal third white, edged by an antemedian row 
of dark fuscous dots. Hind wing pale greyish, somewhat darker towards 
apex and costa; cilia whitish. 
Uncus elongate-ovate. Socius very large. Transtilla knob with a small 
median projection. Aedoeagus without terminal thorn (Slide No. 424 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. One 
specimen. Nearest to P. cricophora spec. nov. 
Parachorista trulligera spec. nov. (fig. 167) 
o' 19 mm. Head dirty -whitish , a median streak on vertex and face, 
dark fuscous. Palpus grey. Thorax light grey, centre dark fuscous, apex 
whitish. Abdomen grey. Legs pale ochreous, anterior dark fuscous above. 
Fore wing oblong, slightly dilated; with a narrow costal fold to 2 / 5 , which 
is strongly dilated beyond base by long roughish marginal cilia; costa 
strongly curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly, apex subacute, termen 
slightly concave above, rounded beneath, moderately oblique. Sordid 
creamy-whitish, partially tinged light fuseous-ochreous, densely suffused 
with fuscous, dark grey, and blackish. Base of costa with a narrow dark 
grey streak, followed by a suffused blackish-grey mark at 1 / 3 of costa; basal 
patch large, suffused with dark blackish -grey, broadly edged posteriorly 
with blackish-fuscous; this edge running from the above mentioned costal 
mark to above dorsum, dark grey below, strongly indent on fold, straight, 
inwardly oblique above fold, much outwardly oblique below this; (para- 
type: with patch at 1 / 3 of costa erect-triangular, dark grey edged black, 
connected by an outwardly oblique small line with middle of disc ; basal 
patch represented by a vertical slightly curved blackish-fuscous streak on 
costa beyond base, reaching 3 / 4 across wing, followed in disc by a rounded- 
diamond-shaped blackish patch, reaching to beyond 1 j i of disc); central 
fascia indicated by a narrow dark fuscous faintly outwardly curved line 
from costal patch at x / 3 to beyond middle of dorsum, dilated by a triangular 
fuscous suffusion along lower x / 3 ; ground colour between this and basal 
patch forming a conspicuous creamy- whitish triangle, slightly irrorated 
with fuscous; wing beyond central line evenly densely suffused with 
fuscous, a dot on end of cell and a row of suffused small dots from apex to 
tornus, blackish ; costal patch indicated by some four cloudy dark grey dots 
along costa posteriorly, and by a blackish-fuscous irregular dot below 
costa before 3 / 4 ; cell posteriorly suffused with whitish; a round patch of 
greyish suffusion above tornus, preceded by a spot of ground colour; 
(paratype: costal patch suffused with grey; a distinct white spot on 
middle and one on end of cell). Cilia dark grey, base white, an interrupted 
dark fuscous antemedian line. Hind wing pale greyish-fuscous, paler 
towards dorsum, cilia concolorous, a whitish basal line. 
Uncus rounded. Gnathos arms rounded. Socius elongate, moderately 
