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PARELICTIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
congrua. 
laeia. 
xanthome- 
las. 
zonophanes. 
diserepans. 
sheperdi. 
<7 ratios a. 
dipt ogra¬ 
ph a. 
nivosa. 
plagiata. 
doublcdayi. 
conoyrapha. 
catocalina. 
Of the subcostal veins of the forewing 2 is always petioled with 3, and 4 with 5, the lower radial rises very near 
the upper median vein; the cell is posteriorly straightly cut off or slightly turned back. About a dozen forms are 
known, all of which are confined to Australia. 
C. congrua Wkr. (18 i). Both wings are yolk-coloured, hindwings with 1, forewings with 2 black 
bands and a black spot below the apex. New South Wales, rare; I only once found a specimen (the figured $) 
near the Zigzag Railway Station. 
C. laeta Wkr. (18 k). In typical specimens the forewings are white with 2 black bands and a black 
spot below the apex, the hindwings are orange-yellow with a black apical margin and 2 black spots before 
it. Eastern and Southern Australia, more common than congrua. June and October. -— The form xanthomelas 
Low. has a yolk-coloured ground of the forewing and thereby resembles congrua. but it is without the coherent 
band of the wing. Western Australia. 
C. zonophanes Meyr. (18k). Forewings bone-white with 3 curved, partly anastomosing bands; 
hindwings yolk-colourecl with a dark band growing broader analwards, but terminating far away from the 
distal margin into the costal margin. Victoria. Rare. 
C. diserepans Wkr. { — samula Fldr.) (18 i). Forewings with an ensiform apex, white, with 2 black 
bands, hindwings yolk-coloured with a black, anally shortened marginal band. South East Australia. Rare. 
C. sheperdi Newm. (18 g) greatly resembles laeta (18 k), but on the hindwing only one yolk-coloured 
spot before the middle of the border. Melbourne and Tasmania. Rare. 
C. gratiosa Wkr. (18 i) is likewise entirely similar to laeta, smaller, more delicate, the bands mostly 
more slender. Eastern Australia. — In the form diplographa Trnr. (18 i) from Queensland the black median 
band is split into two small narrow bands and the space between is filled up with a light yellow. Rare, in 
October. 
C. nivosa Wkr. White, forewing at the costa narrowly black, also at the border before the fringes; 
below the costa some small black spots and an orange costal stripe near the apex; hindwings white, before the 
middle of the margin a small dark spot of a variable size. South East Australia, in September. 
C. plagiata Wkr. ( = struthias Meyr.) (18 g). Forewings orange with a broad black border and a black 
spot behind the base as well as a black discal dot. Hindwings orange vith a narrow black border. New' South 
Wales, Tasmania, rare; unknown to me in nature. 
C. doubledayi Newm. (= rubricosta Wkr., binotata Wkr.) (18 g). Hindwings like in plagiata, orange 
with a narrow black border, but the forewings unicolorously dark chestnut-brown with reddish veins. Victoria 
and Tasmania. Rare. 
C. conographa Meyr. (18 i). The forewing with an ensiformly extended apex, dark chestnut-brown, 
the apex broad and the border narrow orange. Hindwing orange with a blackish-brown antemarginal band. 
Eastern Australia. Rare. 
C. catocalina Wkr. (18 i). Forewings with light and dark gre^y clouds, with a bark-like marking, 
the hindwings yolk-coloured with a large black spot before the middle of the border and a smaller one in the 
apex. New South Wales: rare, in October. 
21. Genus: (Parelictis Meyr. 
The only species forming this genus shows such peculiar formations, that it can be characterized with 
few words. The costa of the forewing is in the very much curved and shows before its middle a knob-like 
boss or projection. Besides there is before the apex of the hindwing a kind of a sling-like fold of the wing. The 
d has scent-fur stripes: a long one in the submedian fold of the forewing and shorter ones at the same place 
of the hindwing and before its apex. The butterflies belong to the larger Lithosiids; the early stages are unknown, 
the butterflies rare. I only once took a $ on a rock of the Botany Bay, near the ,,Heads“ of Sydney. 
P. saleuta Meyr. (18 i). Forewings wood-coloured, with bark-like markings of dentate bands; hind¬ 
wings pale yellow. New South Wales. Rare. 
saleuta 
