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LEPIDOPTEBA IN BIG A. 
Sub-Family ERONIINJE. 
Genus PARERONIA. 
Ercnict, Hiibner (part), Samml. Exot. Schmett. (1816). Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. 1847, p. 64. 
Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 387. 
Valeria , Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 139 (1829). (Inadmiss., being name of the Eabrician species.) 
Nepheronia, Butler, Cist. Ent. 1870, p. 38. 
Pareronia, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 276 (1907). 
Forewing. Costa strongly arclied, apex blunt, lower margin slightly rounded 
near the base, slightly concave beyond its middle, exterior margin nearly straight, 
costal vein extending two-thirds, first and second sub-costal branches emitted close 
together, at one-fourth before end of cell, discocellulars oblique, veins 6 and 7 from 
upper end of cell, upper discocellular therefore absent, middle strongly concave, lower 
nearly straight, cell more than half the length of the wing, veins 8 and 9 stalked, 
thrown off from 7 from beyond its middle. 
Hindwing with the costa and apex slightly rounded, the exterior margin evenly 
curved, the anal angle obtuse, cell long, nearly extending to two-thirds of the wing, 
pre-costal nervure short and curved upwards, costal vein much curved towards its end, 
discocellulars sub-equal and very oblique. Thorax hairy, abdomen long, palpi short, 
thickly clothed with scales, hairy beneath, legs long and slender, antennae long, with a 
lengthened club. 
Type, Valeria , Fabricius, from Java. 
PARERONIA AVATAR. 
Plate 606, figs. 1, J , la, $, lb, $ , lc, 9 (Wet-season Breed), Id, $, le, 9 (Dry-season Brood). 
Eronia Avatar, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. i. p. 61, pi. 2a, fig. 1, $ (1857). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1867, p. 387. de INiceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 59. Ehves, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 
p. 419. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 311. 
Nepheronia Avatar, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1882, p. 64. Eruhstorfer, Iris, 1903, 
p. 101. 
Pareronia Avatar, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 277 (1907). 
Nepheronia Avatar Terina , Fruhstorfer, l.c. 
Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1J, la$, IbJ, lc$). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside whitish, faintly tinted with blue. Forewing. Veins, 
costal band and outer marginal band black, the median vein prominently black, the 
band, very broad at the apex, narrowing gradually to the lower angle, its inner side 
with long teeth running in on the veins. Hindwing also with black veins and a 
narrow black outer marginal band, its inner edge with angles on the veins. Cilia 
