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Show 1887.] LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES FROM INDIA. 465 numerous more or less quadrate large orange spots disposed over the disk ; the base of the wing clothed with long fur-like orange setae. Cilia broadly orange, just marked with black at the end of the veins. U N D E R S I D E : fore wing with the ground-colour paler, the spots as above, the inner margin below the submedian nervure ochreous, with two obscure ochreous diffused spots placed one above the other near the base of the wing in the submedian interspace. Hind wing with the colour of the ground apparently reversed, being orange, leaving a broad irregular black outer margin ; a large black spot at the end of the cell, and a series of eight black spots placed one in each interspace (except the uppermost, and lowest interspaces, which have two each) round the cell. Head black, marked with whitish at the base of the antennae. Antenna with the shaft above and club entirely, except the tip, creamy white, the shaft below and tip of club black. Palpi whitish, marked anteriorly with three black lines, which meet at the apex. Thorax clothed above with long ferruginous setae. Abdomen black, ringed with orange.-FEMALE. Differs only from the male in being larger. P.flavocincta is the largest species of the genus described from India. It is most nearly allied to P. pulomaya, Moore, and P. su-mitra, Moore; but differs from both in the very large size of the orange spots on the hind wing on the upperside, these spots on tbe underside coalescing and occupying the greater portion of the wing, thus reducing the black ground-colour of the upperside to a band on the outer margin and to nine discal spots ; in the two species just mentioned there is no tendency to this feature, the orange spots being all comparatively small and well separated, and the base of the wing is black. The cilia in P.flavocincta are also very much broader, and orange throughout, except the bases of those cilia at the termination of the veins on the hind wing, which are black. Described from a pair in the collection of Mr. A. V. Knyvett and a single male in that of Mr. Otto Moller, all of which were obtained near Buxa, Bhutan, by the native collectors of those gentlemen. PARNARA PAGANA, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 7, 3 •) Hab. Sikhim. Expanse. 3 2 . 1'9 to 2-2 inches. M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings rich dark brown glossed with purple, the base clothed with long deep ochreous-ferruginous setae. Cilia ochreous yellow in the fore wing, becoming orange towards the anal angle in the hind wing. Fore wing with & spot at the end of the cell sometimes almost quadrate, sometimes constricted in the middle and forming a figure of 8, sometimes quite divided into two spots ; three small subapical dots ; three increasing discal spots, the anterior one sometimes absent; a spot placed above and against the middle of the submedian nervure, usually round, sometimes oval, rarely entirely absent; all these spots semitransparent yellow. Hind wing unmarked. U N D E R S I D E : both wings ochreous brown without any purple gloss, the yellow setae also absent. Fore wing |
