NYMPHALID4&. 
PAROMIA, Hewitson. 
Thorax moderately robust, abdomen rather long, slender. Eyes small, smooth. 
Palpi robust, thickly clothed with scales. Antennze rather long, slender, terminated 
in an oblong club. 
Anterior wing trigonate; costal margin arched; outer margin short, very 
slightly simuated at the middle ; inner margin slightly sinuated at the middle. Costal 
nervure robust, not reaching to the middle of the wing, subcostal nervure slender, 
with four branches, the first and second nearly together before the end of the 
discoidal cell, the third and fourth at a distance from the first pair and from each 
other. Discoidal cell short, closed; the upper disco-cellular nervure very short, 
the second about half the length of the third, curved inwards; the third long and 
united to the third median nervule at its base. 
Posterior wing circular. Costal nervure continued to the apex of the wing. 
Discoidal cell short, closed. The upper disco-cellular neryure (rising a little below 
the first branch of the subcostal nervure) half the length of the second, joming the 
median nervure at the base of the third branch. 
Fore-legs of the male rather long, slender, clothed with long hair, femur longer 
than the tibia, tarsus longer than either. 
Hind-legs long, smooth; the femora longer than the tibia, the tibize and tarsi 
of nearly equal length. 
PAROMIA PULCHRA. 1, 2. 
Uprrrsips. Male black. Anterior wing, with the base and a broad oblique 
transverse band sinuated inwardly, scarlet. Posterior wing with a large oblong 
central scarlet spot. 
Unpersipr. Anterior wing as above, except that the apex is brown. Posterior 
wing rufous, with a spot on the costal margin before its niiddle, and a broad trans- 
verse band beyond the middle, red-brown; the band bordered outwardly with dull 
lilac, and marked towards the anal angle by a minute spot, half black, half light blue. 
Expan. 23'5in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
There is no genus in this group with which Paromia can be associated. If its general 
appearance were to guide one it might be placed with Catagramma; in colour it scarcely differs on 
the upperside from C. Cynosura, but has the discoidal cell of both wings closed. Its nearest alliance is 
with Epiphile ; its palpi are however of different form, its anterior wings are not truncate, and it is 
without the remarkable silvery spot which marks the costal margin on the underside of all the species 
of Epiphile. 
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