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coloured borders. Larvae with fascicles of stings. I have 

 figured a representative species. 



PARASA MEDIA. 

 (Plate XC II. Fig. i.) 



Neara media^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1 140, no. 



Parasa media, Moore, Cat. Lepid. Mus. E. I. House, ii. p. 414, 

 no. 940, pi. xxi. figs. 4, 4# (transf.) (1859). 



This Moth, which measures from i to i^ inch across the 

 wings, is found in Java. The body is brown, with the sides of 

 the head and thorax broadly grass-green. The fore-wings are 

 fawn-colour, with a very broad grass-green band, occupying the 

 greater part of the costal area, and more than the basal half of 

 the inner margin. The green band is sinuated on the outside. 

 The base and nervures are brown, and the outer side of the 

 green band is bordered with brown. On the under side the 

 fore-wings are grass-green, with the costa and hind margin 

 bordered with fawn-colour. The hind-wings are pale testa- 

 ceous, bordered with brownish. The female, which I have 

 figured, is larger than the male, and the green colour of the 

 under side of the fore-wings is paler. 



The larva, which feeds on a species of Eugenia, called " Juet 

 Jambu " in Java, is marked with alternate stripes of green and 

 yellow, with a blue stripe on the back. It is armed with 

 fascicles of stings, which are tipped with red at each extremity 

 of the body and on the sides. The cocoon opens with a 

 round lid, like that of a Dipterous pupa. 



PARASA LEPIDA. 



Noctua kpida, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 130, fig. E (1779?). 

 Limacodes gradosa, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 50, pi. 24, 

 fig 4 (1848). 



