( 14?) 



Tlie (? of tlie .sjiecies, wliile in geueral structure it agrees with tyi)ical Paial- 

 cidia, differs iu three particulars : the costa of hiudwing is convex and roughly 

 haired; the hindtibiae ave much swollen towards extremity and fringed with hair, 

 and at the end bear a curled tuft of shining hairs ; and thirdly the antepenultimate 

 segment of the abdomen beneath bears an abrupt jirojeetion, and is clothed with 

 tufts of rough hair. 



198. Paralcis coerulescens spec. nov. 



Forcwinq : mixed fulvous brown and purplish grey, irrorsited with bluish 

 grey scales ; the veins fulvous, the median broadly so ; lines velvety black ; first 

 at one-fourth, angled outwards in cell and on submedian fold, and swollen on 

 costa, median vein, and inner margin ; outer line crcuulate, outcurved, at two- 

 thirds, thickened on veins ; median line similar, nearer outer than inner line ; 

 cell-spot ronnd and black, with a linear blue-grey centre ; the outer line is edged 

 with bluish grey scales, and followed from costa to middle by a black shade ; 

 submarginal line blue-grey, preceded by black blotches between the veins ; 

 interrupted between 6 and 7 and 3 and 4 ; marginal black spots between veins ; 

 fringe purplish grey. 



Ilitidwing : dark slaty grey ; the cell-spot, postmedian, and submarginal line 

 showing darker ; veins towards margin fulvous ; fringe slaty gray with a fulvous 

 sheen. 



Underside dark slaty cinereous, the fringe and cell-spots deeper ; ajjex of 

 forcwiug pale. 



Head and thorax purplish ; abdomen shining dark cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



109. Paralcis curvilinea spec. nov. 



ForctciiHj : dark reddish brown, overlaid with a purplish shade in the central 

 area ; first line at one-fifth, black, angled outwards in cell, then oblique inwards, 

 with a paler inner edge ; outer line from two-thirds of costa to four-fifths of 

 inner margin, outcurved from below costa to submedian fold, where it is indented, 

 black with a pale outer edge; a black median line, waved, and projecting just 

 below median vein, followed by the black cell-spot ; submarginal line very obscure, 

 grey with a black edging, preceded by a black blotch on inner margin beyond 

 outer line ; the apex bluish grey, with some black scaling along hindmargiu 

 beneath it ; marginal spots black ; fringe brown. 



lUndwing : dirty whitish ochreous, speckled with grey, with a dark cell-siwt, 

 and a strongly curved grey postmedian line ; fringe pale. 



Underside of both wings like upi)ersidc of hindwing, the forewing blurred. 



Head olive-ochreous ; base of shoulders, patagia, and a lateral line on thorax 

 purplish black ; tips of shoulders, thorax, metathorax, and basal segments of 

 abdomen pale ochreous ; abdomen greyish ochreous with dull brown-grey dorsal- 

 blotches ; tarsi mottled brown and ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



2 ??. 



At the base of forewing, in the usual place of the fovea, there is visible a 

 small pustule. 



