520 NOCTUID. 
Fore wing pale sap-green ; antemedial line white defined on outer 
side by brow n, slightly sinuous; the medial area with a brown 
patch on inner margin; a slight ‘dark discoidal point; postmedial 
line white defined on inner side by brown, excurved below costa 
and at middle and slightly incurved at discal fold ; a subterminal 
series of black- brown. points; cilia dark brown at base, rufous at 
tips. Hind wing brown; cilia whitish at tips; the underside 
whitish tinged with brown. 
Hab. Gord Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 gd type. Exp. 
2? millim. 
Genus PARACRAMA. ee 
Paracrama, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p, 54 (1884) ,.....000...eeeee dulcissima. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd very long; frons smooth; eyes large, 
round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and bair mixed 
and without crests; tibize moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 
crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly 
curyed and not crenulate ; veins 3 end 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 
angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with veins 38, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just 
above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only, 
6892. Paracrama dulcissima, 
Nolasena dulcissima, W\k. Journ, Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 76 (1864) ; Moore, 
Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 55, pl. 150. f.11; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p, 134; 
Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon, ii, p. 589; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 281. 
Paracrama rectomarginata, Hmpsn, Il. Het. B,M. viii. p. 46, pl. 139. 
f. 7 (1891); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het, p. 281. 
Head and thorax bright yellow-green; palpi and frons chocolate- 
brown mixed with purplish and “white: antennre brown; pectus 
and legs white, the fore femcra dark bene above, the fare and 
mid tibiz brown and white mixed, the tarsi ringed with cupreous 
Fig, 198.—Paracrama dulcissina, §. 4. 
red; abdomen white dorsally suffused with purplish pink. Fore 
wing bright yeliow-green; the costal edge purple-brown; some 
purplish red at base of inner margin; antemedial line fine, white, 
oblique to median nervure; postmedial line fine, white, oblique 
from costa to vein 7, then erect, some short white streaks beyond 
it on costa; a terminal purple- brown band with some whitish on it 
towards apex, very narrow except towards apex and below vein 2 
