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PARASTICHTIS. By W. Warren. 
ochracea. 
semirufa. 
rubrisuf- 
fusa. 
sodalis. 
flavistigma. 
wasted) dull fulvous ochreous below middle, and fuscous brown along inner margin below vein 1, the 
whole dusted and suffused with grey; the inner line outwardly oblique and strongly angled, below vein 
1 running obliquely inwards and filled up with white, which colour also runs diffusely along inner margin 
to a white blotch at end of outer line, which also is filled up with white below vein 5; the stigmata 
of the usual shape, but ill-defined; the median shade forms a slight dark costal cloud, and a dark blotch 
beyond reniform, from which in some cases a dark band runs to inner margin before outer line; terminal 
area more or less clouded with grey and fuscous, the outer half generally paler beyond the subter¬ 
minal line, which is yellowish and regularly waved; the oblique shade from apex not very strongly mark¬ 
ed; fringe olive, dark brown at anal angle; hindwing blackish, tinged towards anal angle and inner 
margin with reddish fulvous; the GG are rather larger and darker than the $$, which are greener, 
New Guinea. 
P. ochracea Warr. (16 a). Forewing greenish ochreous along costa above median vein and ter¬ 
minally to vein 3; the lines marked on costa by pairs of oblique darker green strigae; from median 
vein to vein 1 the ground colour is more fulvous with a tinge of olive; inner margin marked with dark 
grey or pale grey or whitish scales, and with a patch of white beyond outer line; inner line double, 
oblique and obscure, but strongly angled on vein 1 and obliquely straight towards base of inner margin; 
the median shade olive at costa, darker from vein 6 to 1, beyond the reniform forming a darker blotch; 
stigmata variable, sometimes hardly marked, in other cases distinct; the reniform with two dark dots 
on outer side before the dark blotch; anal angle region suffused with olive fuscous or brown, darkening 
the fringe; the submarginal line and the dark apical streak both slight; hindwing reddish luteous or fus¬ 
cous, with the terminal area from costa to vein 1 reddish fuscous or dark fuscous, its inner edge straight; 
the extreme termen pale with dark dots; fringe pale with an irregular dark line through it. A much smaller 
insect than the rest, though larger than the type species spicea Guen. Biagi, Mambare River, British New 
Guinea. 
P. semirufa Warr. (16 a). Forewing olive, more or less suffused with reddish, the olive re¬ 
maining strongest at base, along costa, and towards termen; or the suffusion is darker green with some 
brownish; the inner margin is marked with white at the end of the inner, outer, and submarginal lines; 
the costa is sprinkled with white beyond outer line; median shade dark olive, strongly angled on median 
vein before outer line; the outer line has generally the teeth strongly marked with white; subterminal 
line yellowish, preceded by a dark green or reddish shade; stigmata very indistinct; sometimes the 
wing is sprinkled with white scales; there is generally a rufous shade running along submedian fold; no 
dark oblique streak from apex, nor dark shade at anal angle; fringe olive; hindwing coppery red, with 
greenish terminal spots and fringe; in the ab. rubrisuffusa ab. nov. (16 a) the forewing is almost wholly 
reddish, only the costa and apex remaining olive; the median shade is absent, and only the outer and sub- 
terminal lines are visible. Upper Setekwa River, Dutch New Guinea; the single example of the ab. rubri¬ 
suffusa, from Biagi, Mambare River, may be a local form. 
11. Genus: I*arasti<*litis Hbn. 
Tongue present; frons smooth, with a pad of hair; palpi obliquely upturned, the second seg¬ 
ment hairy in front, the third short and smooth; antennae of d pubescent, very shortly ciliated; thorax, 
pectus, and tibiae hairy; a double dorsal ridge-like crest on thorax, higher at each end; dorsum slightly 
crested and with lateral fringes, the anal tufts large; forewing elongate, widening outwards; termen 
crenulate. Larvae, as far as is known, all feeding on grasses, overwintering, and feeding up in spring; pupa 
in a cocoon among the roots. Type P. hepatica L. 
P. sodalis Btlr. (= obliquiorbis Moore) (16 b). Forewing ochreous washed with rufous, the costal 
and terminal areas, and the central field above submedian fold dark redbrown; veins towards termen red 
brown; lines brown, double, not distinct; inner line curved between the veins and acutely toothed out¬ 
wards below vein 1; a brown streak from base below cell, and another on inner margin; claviform stigma 
brown, outlined with black; orbicular rufous, with dark outline, narrow and oblique; reniform with inner 
half dark brown, outer half ochreous, undefined; the cell dark redbrown; submarginal line rufous, with brown 
shading before it, the terminal area black brown; hindwing greyish ochreous, with cellspot, outer line, 
and veins darker; a broad fuscous marginal border. The species, described in the first place by Butler 
from Japan, was recorded by Moore under the name of obliquiorbis from Sikkim, N. India; it is also found 
in Assam. 
P. flavistigma Moore ( — denticulosa Moore) (16 b). Resembles sodalis, but distinguished at once 
by the whole basal half of forewing being filled up with blackish, except a narrow streak along inner 
margin, the pale reniform lying on its outer edge, but followed by a brownish patch before the ill de- 
