Pull. 16. IX. 1931. 
PARASA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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P. Isabella Mr. Head, thorax and forewing green, the forewing with a large tan-coloured, brown-dusted 
and black-edged basal spot from the costal margin to the posterior cell-end, a similarly coloured marginal band 
is expanded into large spots at the apex and tornus. Abdomen and hindwing ochreous brown. Expanse of 
wings: 40 mm. — Larva green, with a purple dorsal stripe and an anterior red-brown pair of spined appen¬ 
dages. India. 
P. sagittata sp. n. (90 e). Head and thorax above green, abdomen ochreous. Forewing with a red- 
brown basal ray strongly projecting towards the margin, occupying the whole cell and projecting beyond it at 
vein 6. Marginal area red-brown, bordered inwards by a curve. The brown markings are bordered on the inverted 
sides by black lines. Hindwing light yellow, margin broad reddish-brown, under surface of the same colour. 
Expanse of wings: 23 mm. Burma. $ type from Meiktila (British Museum). 
P. fumosa Swh. (87 b). Body brown, thorax and head green above. Forewing unicoloured red-brown, 
hindwing more blackish brown, lighter at the costal margin. Expanse of wings: 22—34 mm. India. 
P. herbifera Whr. (87 b). body brown, only the tegulae green. Wings narrower and more pointed, 
hindwing not lighter at the costal margin. Expanse of wings: 20—24 mm. Forewing of $ green, with an oval 
brown spot from the base almost to the centre of the costal margin, marginal area purple greyish-brown, strewn 
with silvery, with a brown submarginal spot between veins 4 and 5 and above the tornus. Hindwing pale 
brown, lighter basally. Expanse of wings: 27—34 mm. India. 
P. nielli sp. n. (87 c). Body blackish, vertex and spots on the collar, tegulae and thoracal dorsum green. 
Forewing red-brown, centre hyaline, a small green dot at the costal margin at %, a green triangle in the centre 
of the inner margin, a blackish blotch from the cross-vein towards the margin below the apex. Hindwing black. 
Under surface blackish-brown, fore wing with a yellowish inner margin. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Kwang- 
tung. $ type from Lung-tao-shan, captured by Dr. Mell (Berlin State Museum). The $ will presumably look 
quite different. The species recalls Nagoda, but it has a different neuration. It may be that Nagoda francesca 
(p. 674) belongs to this place here. 
P. lorquinii Reak. (87 a, b). '■ body and forewing quite red-brown, forewing with a green antemedian 
band beginning narrow below the costal margin and provided with a distal dent at the posterior cell-end, 
whereupon it strongly widens on 1 a and extends with one dent each towards the base and the distal margin, 
but does not traverse 1 a towards the inner margin. Hindwing ochreous, marginal half red-brown. Expanse 
of wings: 20—22 mm. $ similar to that of lepida, but the hindwings more unicoloured yellow. Philippine Is. 
II. Lepido p t e r a without green colouring. Antennae of $ with short pecti¬ 
nations. 
P. acrata Trnr. (87 b). Unicoloured greyish ochre, forewing sometimes more or less tinged with purple, 
hindwing lighter. Expanse of wings: 34 mm: Australia. 
P. pyrrhothrix Trnr. Reddish-brown; forewing brown, paler towards the margin, sometimes a little 
greyish. Hindwing reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Australia, in October and April. 
P. bombycoides Fldr. (= erecta Swh., sphenosema Low.) (87 c). A very variable species. Nomen- 
clatural form red-brown, forewing of $ dark brown in the basal third, bordered by an oblique distally white 
straight line rarely reaching to the costal margin, the space behind it and at the distal margin more grey. A 
dark spot behind the cell-end between veins 2 and 5; this spot is absent in f. aniphibrota Low. Forewing of $ 
unicoloured, the oblique band extended to the costal margin. — In f. luxa Swh. (= perixera Low.) which may 
be a distinct species the ground colour of the forewing is olive grey, the oblique band is only composed of an 
oblique streak at the inner margin and another one on the posterior cell-margin. Hindwing of <$ paler in all 
the forms. Expanse of wings: 18—26 mm. North Australia. 
P. alphaea F. (= calida Wkr., congrua Wkr., eremospila Low.) (87 a). Body brown, more red-brown 
in the 0. Forewing from brown to red-brown, with a short oblique dark streak from % of the inner margin 
to vein 1 b, a dark dot in the centre of the disc is sometimes absent in the always absent in the $. Hindwing 
lighter brown, darker at the inner margin. Expanse of wings: 28—35 mm. North Australia. 
P. callidesma Low. (87 b). Thorax dark brown, costal margin and centre reddish-brown. Forewing 
red-brown, basal area dark brown, bordered by an oblique whitish line from ]/ 3 of the inner margin to 4 / 5 of the 
costal margin which it does not reach. A dark almost straight line from 4 /. of the costal margin to the distal 
margin below its centre. Hindwing reddish brown. Expanse of wings: 26—36 mm. North Australia, in March. 
P. brevipennis sp. n. (87 c) has the colouring and scheme of markings of bombycoides (87 c), but much 
shorter and broader wings. Body purple brown, thorax of $ orange-red centrally. Forewing purple brown, 
scarcely darkened basally, the hardly visible oblique streak of the <$ extends from % of the inner margin 
almost to the cell, in the $ to or almost to the costal margin, being white in the $, distally bordered with blackish, 
more slanting than in bombycoides. Darkening of $ disc hardly traceable. Hindwing of $ reddish ochre, of $ 
purple brown. Expanse: 22—27 mm. Queensland, in April. as well as $ types from Port Darwin in the 
Berlin State Museum. 
X 
isabella. 
sar/i itaia. 
fumosa. 
herbifera. 
melli. 
lorquinii. 
acrata. 
pyrrho¬ 
thrix. 
bomby- 
coidcs. 
amphi- 
brofa. 
luxa. 
alphaea. 
callidesma. 
brevi¬ 
pennis. 
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