MOTHS', GENUS PARAMULONA HAMPSOl^— FIELD 491 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OP PARAMULONA 



2 



1. Males 5 



Females --^-^^------------^--^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ry thick 



wTft co?n™i not so thick usuaUy not so long and always more numerous 



'■ to-saoculus; .asal lohes o. iu..a Ion. and ^^'^^;^^^:^^:, 

 HarVe°with"cTa;us"a"v™ad";M ^hort subtriangular lobe; basal lobes of juxta 



■ Genital plate not notcbed but rounded alon. "-'^-j^'^f;, jj,„,,,.g,,,^„) 



PARAMULONA NEPHELISTIS (Hampson) 



FiGTJEE 95, a-c, e 



?ol iTp TOO, 701, 1914.-DKA^TDT, in Seitz, Gross-schmetterhnge der E.de. 

 vol. 6,' p 252, i918.-STr..ND, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pars. 26, 



PaZnTo:^fZneUsUs (Hampson), Fiklo, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 100, p. 

 326, 1950. 

 Male.-V^\WS light fuscous-brown, light straw colored at the tip. 

 Scales of outer sixth and basal half of antenna pale ochraceous whi e. 

 The two-thirds of the antenna below outer sixth fuscous. Head 

 fuscous with ochraceous fringe at vertex and orcl.raceous scales a W 

 base of palpi. Mesoscutum, patagium, and tegula fuscous with long - 

 tudinal stripes of ochraceous. Legs ochraceous, banded with light 

 fuscous. Abdomen pale ochraceous below and somewhat darker, more 

 brownish above. Forewing above pale ochraceous with fuscous scales 

 along the veins and with large fuscous patches m the center and 

 base Outer margin bordered with ochraceous, especially at apex. 

 Forewing below pale fuscous except along inner margin, where the 

 color is tighter and sordid white. Hindwing above sordid white, 

 sli^^htly darker toward apex and outer margin. Hiiuhv^ng below 

 sordid' white except along foremargin and apex, where the color is 

 darker and more of a fuscous. 

 Length of forewing 10 mm. 



