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PSYCHE. 



[Uclober 1898. 



brown crest. Fore wing green, a smalljbasal 

 daik brown patch, widest on costa, a little 

 angled on median vein and vein i, narrow- 

 ing to nothing at inner margin. Outer 

 border verj narrow, nearly confined to the 

 fringe except between veins 5 to 8 where it 

 widens inwardly ; brown, shaded with sil- 

 very, edged within by a dark brown line. A 

 very small brown discal dot. Hind wings 

 creamy ocherous, the fringe brown and white. 

 Below uniformly yellowish, fore wings a 

 little greenish, fringe brown tipped. Front 

 of head, palpi and pectus dark brown. Middle 

 and hind legs yellowish. Vein 10 of fore 

 wings from end of cell. Expanse ;> mm. 



Two <? s without definite locality, but 

 from Mexico or Central America 

 (Heyde). U. S. Nat. Mus., type no. 

 4019. Nearest to F. imitata Druce. 

 The specimens mentioned in the Bio- 

 logia Cent. Am., (Lep. Het. II, 441 

 (1898)), from Costa Rica with hind 

 wings pale cream color may be this 

 species. 



In the following synoptic table of 

 Parasa I exclude certain species listed 

 by Kirby. Of these aetitis Wall, and 

 gemmiTis Feld. belong to Taeda accord- 

 ing to Karsch ; ancilis Wall, is the type 

 of Ectropa Wall., a genus very distinct 

 from Parasa as I learn from the struc- 

 tural details that Sir G. F. Hampson 

 has kindly sent me ; rubriplaga Walk, 

 and jinicolor Moore belong to Idonauton 

 and Natada respectively (vide Hamp- 

 son's Moths of India). Besides these 

 I have excluded provisionally all species 

 without any green marking on the thorax 

 as needing to be reexamined structurally. 

 They are bigtittata Walk., cruda Walk., 

 cupiriphiga Walk., nipreistriga Walk., 



humilis Mab., vetusta Walk., rubicunda 

 Walk., rudis Walk., pallida Moschl., 

 chlorostigma Snell., and dentata Hamps. 

 The latter species differs in structural 

 characters from Parasa as the male 

 antennae are serrate throughout. I 

 would propose that it be made the type 

 of a new genus, H.^mpsonella, with the 

 characters given in the " Moths of 

 India." 



Synoptic Table of Parasa. 



1. Thorax green, wings without any green 



marks ...... 2 



Thorax green at least in part, wings with 

 a green band .... 4 



2. Fore wings shaded with brown broadly 



at outer margin .... 3 

 Fore wing outwardly marked by a series 

 of intervenular areas 



arcuata Karsch (East Africa) 



3. Basal space discolorous ; expanse 25 mm. 



lysia Druce (Mexico) 

 Basal space unicolorous for two-thirds 

 of wing; expanse over 30 mm. 



heybifera Walk. (India) 



4. A brown spot in the green band at end 



of cell 5 



No brown discal spot ; at most an oliva- 

 ceous .one 8 



5. Outer brown border roundedly waved 6 

 Outer brown border with an inward 



point opposite the cell 



laranda Druce (Mexico) 



6. Thorax brown on the collar 



laonome Druce (Mexico) 



Thorax all green or a narrow brown 



crest only 7 



7. Hind wing brown ; outer border of fore 



wings evenly brown 



imitata Druce (Mexico) 

 Hind wing yellowish: outer border of 

 fore wings washed with white beyond 

 its limiting inner line 



prasina Dyar (Mexico) 



