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Lloyd's natural history. 



point of the wing being included between the fork; the medial 

 vein emits three branches, and there are two longitudinal veins 

 (extending from the vein which connects the post-costal and 

 medial veins) between the last branch of the medial vein and 

 the main or fourth branch of the post-costal vein. There ap- 

 pears to be no bridle to hook the wings together. The thorax 

 is short and thick, as is also the abdomen. The legs are of 

 nearly equal length, and very woolly, the spurs of the hind- 

 wings being almost concealed. The tarsi are long and thick 

 and very woolly, the tarsal unguis and large flat pulvilli bemg 

 concealed by curved black hairs. When at rest the wings are 

 deflexed at the sides of the body like the roof of a house. The 

 colour of the entire Moth is buff, the wings having a silky gloss, 

 and the palpi have a pale ring near the apex ; the back of the 

 abdomen is rather more fulvous, and marked with short black 



bands, 



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GENUS PARASA. 



Neara, Herrich-Schaffer, Aussereurop. Schmett. i. figs. 176, 

 177 (1854); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. V. p. 11 38 

 (1855) ; nom prcROCC. 

 Parasa, Moore, Cat. Lepid. Mus. E. L House, ii. p. 413 (1859); 

 id. Lepid. Ceylon, ii. p. 196 (1883). 

 Li this genus the antenna of the male are pectinated towards 

 the base r the palpi are pilose, extending a little beyond the 

 head, and the hind tibiae are armed with one pair of spurs. 

 The body is stout and pilose, and extends as far as the hind- 

 wings. The wings are broad, oval, rounded at the extremity, 

 and very densely scaled. 



The genus is the most extensive in the Family, upwards of 

 fifty species being now referred to it; but the great majority 

 of these are found in Africa and the Indo-Malayan Region. 

 Most of the species are grass-green, with brown or fawn- 



