352 Mr. A. G. Butler 07i Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



18. Paragonia squamosa, n. s. 



(? . Reddish clay-colour, densely irrorated with black 

 atoms ; greyish towards the external border, sericeous ; 

 primaries crossed by two widely se^mrated undulated 

 yellowish stripes, not extending to costal margin ; a 

 small black spot at the end of the cell ; fringe golden 

 cupreous ; secondaries with a single slightly undulated 

 central stripe ; costal area whitish ; body paler than the 

 wings ; the vertex of head, antennae, and abdomen 

 whitish ; under surface of wings dark clay- coloured, 

 clouded and mottled with grey, speckled with black ; 

 internal borders white ; fringes, as above, golden cu- 

 preous ; costal margin of primaries golden ; two brown- 

 edged white dashes on the costal margin near apex ; 

 body below flesh-tinted, the legs pearly white. Expanse 

 of wings, 43 mm. 



The undulated stripes across the wings seem to offer a 

 good distinctive specific character, apart from coloration. 



19. Paragonia turhida, n. s. 



<y . Whity-brown, tinted towards the base of the 

 wings with yellowish, and densely irrorated with blackish ; 

 primaries crossed at basal third b}^ a deeply undulated 

 ill-defined greyish stripe, and at external third by a 

 whitish oblique stripe, which joins an oblique blackish 

 dash at an angle close to costal border ; a well-marked 

 blackish disco-cellular spot ; fringe golden brown, blotched 

 with blackish ; secondaries crossed in the middle by an 

 ill-defined, nearly straight whitish line ; fringe as in 

 primaries ; body creamy whitish ; wings below sandy 

 yellowish, clouded and mottled with grey, and speckled 

 with black ; internal borders white ; black disco-cellular 

 dots ; primaries with a subapical oblique black-edged 

 white costal dash joining an abbreviated greyish discal 

 line ; a white spot at apex ; body and legs below sandy 

 whitish, speckled with blackish. Expanse of wings, 

 40 mm. 



? . Stramineous, speckled with blackish ; primaries 

 crossed by two stripes agreeing in form with those of the 

 male, but dark grey; area enclosed between these stripes 

 crossed transversely from costa to inner margin by a 

 rather broad, internally difi'used, red-brown band ; a 

 Ijlack disco-cellular spot; a gre^yish subapical costal spot, 



