PAB AONA. PHILAGRIA . 7 1 



Genus PARAONA. 

 Paraona, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 8. 



Type, P. splendens, Butl. 



Range. Bombay. 



Palpi porrect. Antennae with short bristles in female. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4 and 5 from angle ; 6 and 

 10 from the areole ; 7 from after it. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 angle of cell ; 4 arid 5 on a short stalk ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



1323. Paraona splendens, Butl Trans. Ent. Soc. ]877, p. 357 ; Moore, 

 P. Z. S. 1878, pi. 1, fig. 1 ; CL&.& no. 567. 



. Fuscous ; the head, tegulae, and metathorax metallic blue- 

 green ; collar bright yellow. Fore wing with a coppery tinge ; the 



Fig. 37. Paraona splendens, . j. 



veins streaked with blue-green, especially the nervures near the 

 base ; a golden-yellow streak from the base below the median 

 nervure. 



Hob. Bombay. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus PHILAGRIA. 

 Philagria, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 336 (189'?) 



Type, P. entella, Cram. 



liatuje. India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo ; Celebes ; New 

 Hebrides. 



Palpi porrect, the second joint fringed with hair. Antenna) of 

 male bipectinated, the branches short, and with a bristle from the 

 end. Fore wing very long and narrow ; vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4 and 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, stalked ; 

 no areole. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked ; 6 and 7 on a 

 short stalk ; 8 from middle of cell. 



1324. Philagria entella, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 203, fig. D ; C. 8> S. 



no. 570. 



Noctua delia, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 140. 

 ^Eonistis entelliola, Hilbn. Verz. p. 165. 

 Noctua couvoluta Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 215. 



