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cell, lower at one-fourth before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 moderately stout, abdomen carinated above ; palpi ascending, slender, squamose, 

 second joint extending to level of the eyes, third joint long, of the same length as 

 second ; antennse simple ; legs squamose, middle and hind tibii» with very long spurs. 



PARACRAMA DULCISSIMA (Plate 150, Fig. 11,^). 



Nolasena chdcissima, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vii. p. 76 (1864) ; Catal. Lep. Het. B.M. xxxiii. 

 p. 860. 



Male and female : forewing grass-green, crossed by an outwardly oblique ante- 

 medial and an erect postmedial slender indistinct whitish line, and a slender angular- 

 bordered purplish-brown marginal band ; the extreme costal edge speckled with 

 purplish-brown scales and streaked with white ; cilia purple-brown : hindwing very 

 pale pink, whitish towards the base. Thorax and head grass-green, abdomen 

 pinkish-ochreous above ; palpi purplish-ochreous above, whitish beneath ; legs white, 

 front and middle legs with purple-brown bands. 



Expanse, S 1^, ? 1^ inch. 



Genus PHYLLOPHILA. 



Phyllophila, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 254 (1852). 

 Wings small : forewing elongated, narrow, triangular ; first subcostal emitted 

 at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, 

 touching the third at half way between its base and the fourth ; discocellular obliquely 

 concave, radials from the upper end and near lower end ; middle median from angle 

 close to end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end; submedian slightly 

 recurved : hindwing rather long, exterior margin obhque, waved ; cell extending 

 half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular obliquely concave, 

 radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at 

 one-third ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body small, narrow ; palpi porrect, 

 long, narrow, squamose, second joint projected half beyond the head, third joint 

 short ; antennas setose ; legs squamose, middle and hind tibise stout, clothed with 

 hau'y scales, spurred. 

 Type, P. Wimmerii. 



PHYLLOPHILA MODESTA (Plate 150, Fig. 13). 



Male and female pale dull ochreous-white : forewing numerously speckled with 



pale ochreous-brown scales ; crossed by a very indistinct brown-speckled antemedial 



line and a postmedial line ; a large brown-speckled reniforra spot ; a small black 



spot at base of the cell, some short black streaks along the edge of the costa, and a 



