222 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Neara gradosa, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1139, 



no. i (1855). 

 Parasa leptda, Moore, Cat. Lepid. Ins. E. I. House, ii. p. 413, 



no. 939> pl- 21, figs 3, 30-^ (transf.) (1859); id. Lepid. 



Ceylon, ii. p. 127, pl. 128, figs. 2, 20, b (1893); Snellen, 



Tijdschr. Ent. xx. p. 18 (1877). 



This species, which inhabits India and Ceylon, is the type 

 of the genus Parasa. It much resembles P. media, but is 

 larger, and the green portion of the fore-wings is not indented, 

 but gradually rounded on the outer side. 



The larva feeds on Ficus> mango, and other trees. It is like 

 that of the last species, but shorter and broader, and only two of 

 the fascicles at each end are tipped with red. Mr. Moore quotes 

 the following accounts of its habits : " The mask which con- 

 ceals the head when at rest is curious. It is prehensile, and clasps 

 the edge of the leaf while the head underneath is eating its way 

 along. Instead of pro-legs it has eight pairs of soft flexible pro- 

 tuberances, which, by a peristaltic kind of motion, are made to 

 serve as pro-legs, and by means of them the animal clings par- 

 ticularly strongly against the surface even of glass " (Selater). 

 "The caterpillar stings with such horrible pain that I sat in the 

 room almost sick with it, and unable to keep the tears from 

 running down my cheeks for more than two hours, applying 

 ammonia all the time " (Temphton). 



GENUS EUCLEA. 



Euclea, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 149 (1822?) ; Walker, 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1143 (1855); Packard, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 336 (1864). 



Euclea includes a series of rather small American moths, 

 with somewhat stout bodies, not extending much beyond the 



