PARASA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
consoda. 
pastoral is. 
ionki- 
nensis. 
re panda. 
campagnei. 
grandis. 
darrna. 
argenti- 
linea. 
tricolor. 
virescens. 
albida. 
argyro- 
ncura. 
/ umosana. 
ostia. 
panica. 
hampsoni. 
albipuncta. 
dideis. 
696 
P. consocia Whr. (= princeps Stgr., tessellata Mr.) (86 1 and Vol. II, pi. 50 c). Basal spot of forewing 
red-brown, marginal band yellow, dusted with rust-brown and with brown veins, .narrow, 1 / 5 of the width 
of the costal margin at most. Expanse of wings: 30—35 mm. In North China and Corea, also near Canton and 
in Formosa, March—April and July—August. 
P. pastoralis Btlr. (86 1 and Vol. II, pi. 50 c). Similar to consocia, but basal spot of forewing also 
yellow, distally followed by a violettish-brown shadowy spot. Marginal band more widened at the apex than 
in consocia. — tonkinensis subsp. nov. is intermediary between the two species, small and with narrow wings, 
basal spot of forewing also yellow, but only linearly bordered with violettish-brown. Tonkin, 2 in the 
Berlin State Museum. Expanse of wings: 30—50 mm. North India to Borneo, rarely in South China. 
P. repanda Whr. (90 e). Body brown, thorax and head green above. Forewing green, with a violettish- 
brown basal spot not reaching the inner margin, a uniform violettish-brown marginal band dusted with silvery 
and edged inside with silvery, continued at the inner margin almost to the base. Hindwing brown, more or 
less extensively ochreous in the basal half. Expanse of wings: 30—50 mm. North India. — campagnei Joann. 
constantly differs in the basal spot, which is sharply angled towards the anterior edge of the cell in the nomen- 
elatural race, narrowing down here gradually or rounded in an obtuse angle towards the costal margin. Tonkin, 
South China. 
P. grandis sp. n. (87 a). Body brown, thorax green laterally above. Forewing green, with a uniformly 
broad violettish-brown basal spot extended to the inner margin, marginal band brownish-grey, bent towards 
the base at the apex, more rounded at the tornus than in repanda, bordered only by a dull whitish instead 
of silvery, with a brown arcuate line sitbapically inside. Hindwing ochreous, fringe brownish at the tornus. 
Expanse of wings: 62 mm. Antennae with short pectinations in the $. Kwang-tung, bred by Dr. Mell in 
November. $ type from Tsha-yun-shan in the Berlin State Museum. 
P. darma Mr. ( = clharma Hmps.) (86 I). Smaller than repanda, costal margin also broad violettish- 
brown, edged with silvery. Hindwing yellow, with a broad brown distal margin, body brown, tegulae green. 
Expanse of wings: 26—34 mm. Rangoon to Borneo. 
P, argentilinea limps. (= elegantula Voll) (90 e). Forewing broad triangular, green, costal margin 
fine brown, marginal band yellowish-brown, bordered towards the base by a silvery line, inner margin narrow r 
brown, broader towards the base. Hindwing ochreous. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. North India, Java. 
P. bicolor Whr. (87 a). Unicoloured green, distal portion of forewing with or without small brown 
postmedian aixl submarginal spots. Hindwing and abdomen brownish ochreous. Costal margin of $ forewing 
convex. Expanse of wings: 25—45 mm. North India, Java. — virescens Mats, is similar, forewing broader, 
more widened towards the margin. Formosa. — Larva of tricolor violet with a yellow subdorsal and lateral 
line and short bristly appendages, the front ones red; on bamboo. 
P. albida Candeze differs from bicolor in the yellowish-white head and collar. Forewing with a brown 
spot between veins 4 and 5, and ochreous fringe, hindwing yellowish-white. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Indo- 
China. 
P. argyroneura sp. n. (90 e) is separated from bicolor (87 a) by the costal margin being straight in the 
$ and the apex of the forewing more tapering. Posterior edge of cell with silvery scales, the silvery streak 
widened before the small brown spot at the posterior cell-end.' Hindwing yellowish ochre, also the other brown 
small spots often with silver, rarely blackish: f. fumosana nov. (Tring Museum). Expanse of wings: 36 mm. 
Khasis, in May. $ type in the Berlin State Museum, type in the Tring Museum'. 
P. ostia Swh. (87 a). Forewing green, a red-brown basal spot is extended to the inner margin, fringe 
brownish. Hindwing paler green, body green, with a brown thoracal median line. Expanse of wings: 50—60 mm. 
North India. 
P. punica H.-Schdjf. (90 g). Similar to ostia, the violettish-brown basal spot more extensive at the 
costal margin and in the cell, the brown colour of the fringe narrowly extends to the margin. Thorax uni¬ 
coloured green above. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. North India. 
P. hampsoni Dyar (= viridis Hmps.) (86 1). Similar to bicolor (87 a), but without the small brown 
spots in the wing, instead of which there is a brown spot on the margin above the tornus and one on the inner 
margin before the tornus. Thorax edged with brown. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Ceylon. 
P. albipuncta Hmps. (90 a) differs from hampsoni in the brown fringe-marking of the forewing being 
extended basad in a large marginal spot between 3 and 5, the brown inner-marginal spot proximally with a 
small silvery white spot. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. India. 
P. dulcis sp. 7i. (87 b). Body light yellowish ochre, thorax light green above (excepting collar). Fore¬ 
wing light green, costal margin fine pale yellow, also the fringe and a very narrow marginal line which is only 
widened at the tornus and on which there are red-brown dots. Hindwing and under surface pale yellow. Ex¬ 
panse of wings: 14 mm. Kwang-tung, numbers of it captured by Dr. Mell in August. $ type from Tsha-yun- 
shan in the Berlin State Museum. 
