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Vol. 101 Washington : 1951 No. 3286 



MOTHS OF THE GENUS PARAMULONA HAMPSON 



By William D. Field 



The lepidopterous genus Paramulona^ described by Hampson in 

 1900, is native to Cuba and is found only on that island. The pres- 

 ent study of these moths is based upon material from the collections 

 of the United States National Museum and the British Museum of 

 Natural History. Arthur D. Cushman, of the United States Bureau 

 of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, made the drawings for figures 

 95, e, and 96, i and j. The rest of the drawings are my own work. 



Family ARCTHDAE 

 Subfamily Lithosiinae 



Genus PARAMULONA Hampson 



Paramulona Hampson, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British 

 Museum, vol. 2, p. 38G, 1900. — Draudt, in Seitz, Gross-sclimetterlinge der 

 Erde, vol. 6, pp. 251, 252, 1918. — Strand, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum cata- 

 logus, pars. 2G, p. 732, 1922. — Forbes, Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the 

 Virgin Islands, vol. 12, pt. 1, pp. 32, 33, 1930. 



Type. — Mieza alhulata (Herrich-Schaeffer) (type by original desig- 

 nation). 



Labial palpus upturned, nearly reaching vertex of head. 



Antennae of male and female bipectinate ; pectinations originating 

 ventrally on posterior half of subsegments; with a pair of bristles 

 on each pectination, one long and placed apically on pectination 

 (except in Paramulona Ijaracoa^ where this bristle is subapical), the 

 second shorter and below the first; pectinations ciliate. Male with 

 pectinations narrowly fused at base and usually with pectinations of 

 middle subsegments long, twice or more as long as width of subseg- 



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