Publ. 30. IV. 1925. 
PARNARA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
P. noctula Ham. Drc. Uni-coloured brownish-black with equally coloured fringes. Palpi densely nodula. 
clothed with black and white hair. Antennae black with chestnut-brown tips. 
P. maranga Btlr. <$. Wings dark smoke-brown; forewing above with three bronze-brown, only in a maranga. 
certain light distinct longitudinal streaks at the median and at the veins 2 and 3, beneath with white subapical 
dots in 6 to 8. The $ differs by the forewing on both sides showing five hyaline spots (in 2, 3, 6 to 8). 32 mm. 
British East Africa on the Muthambi River on the southern side of Mt. Kenia. 
P. sinnis Mab. (= weymeri Saalm.) (78 g). Palpi below dark grey. The before me are quite similar sinnis. 
to the $$ and have no mealy spot of the forewing. Madagascar. 
P. albirostris Mab. Holland considers this species to be the $ of sinnis, in which case, however, the albirostris. 
<$ of sinnis would have to be dimorphous. But as besides the palpi of albirostris, according to Mabille, are 
below brimstone-coloured, albirostris is probably a species different from sinnis. The forewing above shows 
behind the discal cell a slanting, bent, lustrous black mealy spot. Madagascar. 
P. dolens Mab. is quite dark black; hindwing above at the base clothed with red-brown hair. Fringes dolens. 
of both wings dark grey. Forewing beneath from the base to the apex of the discal cell with a jet-black stripe. 
Palpi yellowish-grey. Comoro Is. 
P. Iugens Hpffr. (78 e). The $ generally shows hyaline spots in 2, 3, and 6 to 8 on the forewing. Delagoa lugens. 
Bay to Kilimandjaro and Ruwenzori. 
P. Ursula HoU. (77 i). The $ is on both sides quite uni-coloured dark greyisli-brown without markings; ursula. 
the $ has the same hyaline spots of the forewing as the $ of P. lugens (78 e), but it lacks the dark marginal 
band on the hindwing beneath. East Africa. 
The following 12 species are distinguished from all the above-mentioned (except the continental form of borbonica) 
by the discal cell of the forewing showing on both sides a small whitish, generally oblong hyaline spot at the costal margin 
near the apex, opposite the base of vein 10. Future examinations may decide whether this mark stands the test. 
P. geniella Mab. (= ellipsis Saalm.) differs from P. borbonica by the marks stated in the review, gemella. 
and by the three hyaline dots in 6 to 8 of the forewing not being arranged in a straight line, but in an obtuse 
triangle. West Madagascar and in the Islands of Mafia and Juan cle Nova. 
P. holtzi Plotz (79 a). The marks characterizing this species are to be seen from the review of the holtzi. 
species and from the figure. Angola. 
P. detecta Trim. Forewing above with a small, roundish discal spot in 1 b behind the centre of detecta. 
vein 1, and with hyaline spots in 2 to 4, 6, 7 (8), of which those in 4, 6 to 8 are small and punctiform. 
Hindwing above normal with 5 small whitish discal dots in the areas 2 to 6, of which, however, those in 2 
to 4 are generally indistinct or covered by the long brownish-yellow hairing. Under surface of both wings 
greyish-brown, scantily strewn with yellowish scales; the spots as above. The hyaline dot in area 7 of the 
forewing is always situate a little more towards the base than the two others. Natal to Kilimandjaro. — karschi karschi. 
form. nov. (= borbonica Karsch) is before me in a typical specimen from Togo and also from the Congo District. 
It has somewhat shorter and obtuser forewings, and the basal parts of both wings above are more thinly haired 
in a browner shade; the light discal dots of the hindwing above are thereby all distinct; those in 3 and 5 are 
always smaller and somewhat closer at the margin. As I cannot discover any other differences, I can only 
take karschi to be a northern race of detecta. This form was denoted as falarus by Mabille (in litt.). 
P. gem in a Gaede is described as follows: ,, Ground-colour of both wings above uniformly dark brown; gemina. 
on the forewing the cellnlar spots are white hyaline; the spot above vein 1 is yellowish; there are but two 
subapical spots, corresponding to the second and third of similar species, they are almost beside each other, 
not below each other; cellular spot small. The discal spots in area 3, 2 and 1 are much smaller than in 
borbonica and somewhat larger than in fatuella. On the hindwing 2 yellowish-white spots in area 2 and 4. 
Under surface of both wings dark ochreous-brown, hindwing in the discal area somewhat lighter and with one 
yellowish spot each in the areas 2, 4 and 6; on the forewing the spots are as above. Expanse of wings: 28 m m. " 
Cameroon: Yaunde. —• trigemina Gaede only differs by the forewing showing three subapical spots and the trigemina. 
hindwing exhibiting discal spots in 2, 3, 4, and 6. Togo. 
P. perobscura Ham. Druce is likewise unknown to me. The author describes it as follows: Above perobscura. 
monotonously dark brown, feebly greenish at the bases of both wings. Forewing with a small, semi-transparent 
white spot in the discal cell behind the centre and close at the costal margin generally two, sometimes one 
or three small white subapical dots; a hyaline spot at the base of area 3 and a larger, more or less crescentiform 
spot more towards the base in area 2; in the area 1 b near the centre and situate on vein 1 there is a 
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