354 Mr. A. G. Butler on Heterocerous Lepidoptera 



type ; the dentate-sinuate stripe of secondaries obsolete 

 in the male ; the female with dark grey central band, 

 between which and the outer stripe the ground colour is 

 yellowish ; borders of all the wings also dark grey (one 

 pair) ; the following appears to be a fourth variety, but 

 is better marked than the preceding ones : — 



P. carnea ? var. rosea. 



Eose-brown, with the stripes dark red-brown, the outer 

 stripe sometimes with a cream-coloured outer edge ; 

 fringes red-brown ; a small black disco-cellular spot on 

 the primaries ; dentate- sinuate stripe of secondaries 

 obsolete ; female with two red-brown spots near the 

 angle of the primaries, which is slightly blackish, and a 

 diffused central red-brown band ; outer borders red-brown ; 

 body pinky whitish ; wings below rather browner than 

 above, with white internal borders, markings rather less 

 defined than above ; apex of primaries white ; body red- 

 brown. Expanse of wings, 41 — 42 mm. 



21. Paragonia deustata (PI. XVI., fig. 3). 



? Paragonia deustata, Felder and Eogenhofer, Eeise 

 der Fregatte Novara, v., j)l. cxxiv., fig. 8 (1875). 



The male is of a sandy ochraceous colour, and, as in 

 the allied species, agrees with Tetrads in the form of its 

 wings ; but the pattern is the same as in the female. 



Two males. 



The conspicuous black spot on the outer margin of 

 the primaries at once identifies this species, apart from 

 other characters. 



22. Paragonia cinerea, n. s. 



Allied to the preceding, from which it differs in its 

 silver-grey coloration, the approximation of the stripes 

 across the primaries, the red-speckled transverse stripe, 

 the black spot on the outer margin replaced by a 

 congregation of blackish scales, near to which are two 

 small red spots, and, in fact, the ill-defined character of 

 all the markings ; under surface silver-grey, black- 

 speckled ; primaries with two darker grey lines con 

 verging towards the inner margin ; costa snow-white 

 towards apex ; a dusky spot on the outer margin ; a very 

 ill-defined submarginal grey stripe slightly darker than 



