428 Mr. W. Warren on nexo 



Mimaglossa revulsa, sp. n. 



Like a very large hahi'tah'Sj but the ground-colour pale 

 reddish ochreous, the usual lines, which are shaped exactly 

 as in /iaJ/toZ/s, indistinctly fuscous ; hind wing pale ochreous, 

 tinged with greyish only at apex and along the base of the 

 fringes ; head and thorax reddish grey ; abdomen greyish 

 ochreous. 



Expanse of wings, $ 36 inillim. 



One female from Australia with the MS. name revulsa, 

 Wlk., attached to it. The specimen is not in first-rate con- 

 dition ; perfect ones will probably show the lines and markings 

 clearer. 



Parasarama, Warr. 

 Parasarama, Warr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, vi. p. 474. 



Fore wings elongated, narrow at base ; costa straight, only 

 curved slightly in the last third ; apex blunt ; hind margin 

 curved. Hind wings rounded, twice as broad as fore wings. 

 Antennas with basal joint swollen, filiform in female, slightly 

 pubescent in male ; palpi upcurved in front of face, very 

 long ; the second joint rising as high as or higher than the 

 vertex, in the female slender, in the male thickened; third 

 joint erect, shorter, aculeate and slender in female, fringed 

 with hair-like scales and thickened in male ; tongue present; 

 patagia long, partially raised ; abdomen stout and short in 

 both sexes ; scaling coarse ; fore wings in the male with 

 raised tufts of scales in the cell ; hind wings semitransparent. 



Type P. cuproviridalis , Moore {Locastra) , Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond. 1867, p. 67, ? . 



The genus resembles Sarama^ Moore, but is without the 

 antennal appendages in the male. 



Parasarama (?) nigrescens, sp. n. 



Fore wings ochreous, with a greenish tinge ; first line indi- 

 cated only by an obliquely-curved streak from the inner 

 margin and a black dot on the median vein ; some grey scales 

 on the costa towards the middle, and two small tufts of raised 

 black scales below them in the cell ; exterior line black, 

 indistinctly denticulated, two denticulations in the middle and 

 one above the inner margin being particularly conspicuous ; 

 marginal area and fringes dark fuscous, leaving only a narrow 

 pale shade beyond the exterior line. Hind wings fu.scous, 

 darker towards the hind margin, with indistinct traces of a 



