. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 520 KOCXUID.!). Fore wing pale sa])-gTecu ; autemediul line white defined on outer side by brown, slightly sinuous; the medial area with a brown patch on inner margin ; a slight dark discoidal point; postraedial line white defined on inner side by brown, excurved below costa find at middle and sliglitly incurved at discal fold ; a subterminal series of black-brown points ; cilia dark brown at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing brown ; cilia whitish at tips; tlio underside whitish tinged with brown. Hah. Gold Coast, Bibianaha [Sj
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 520 KOCXUID.!). Fore wing pale sa])-gTecu ; autemediul line white defined on outer side by brown, slightly sinuous; the medial area with a brown patch on inner margin ; a slight dark discoidal point; postraedial line white defined on inner side by brown, excurved below costa find at middle and sliglitly incurved at discal fold ; a subterminal series of black-brown points ; cilia dark brown at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing brown ; cilia whitish at tips; tlio underside whitish tinged with brown. Hah. Gold Coast, Bibianaha [Sjmrrell), 1 6 type. Ed-p. 22 millim. Genus PARACRAMA. Type. Paracrama, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 54 (1884) ditlcissima. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iiiitnrned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd very long; irons smooth ; eyes large, ronnd ; antennre of male cih'ated ; thorax clothed witii scales and hair mixt-d and without crests; tibire moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 iiud 5 from near angle of cell; G from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 6892. Paracrama dulcissima. Nolasena duJci/s-ma, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 76 (18G4); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 55, pi. 150. f. 11; Hmpsn. Molhs lud. ii. p. 134; Swinh. Cat. Het. Miis. Oxon. ii. p. 589; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 281. 'Paracrama reciomarginata, Hmpsn, 111. Het. viii. p. 46, pi. 139. f. 7 (1891); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het, p. 281. Head and thorax bright yellow-green ; palpi and frons chocolate- brown mixed with purplish and white; antennfe brown; pectus and legs white, the fore femora dark brown above, the fore and mid tibige brown and white mixe
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