40 LIMACODID^. 



crest ; abdomen veiy similar to Thyatira, witli the same tufts ; palpi short, thick, with very- 

 short terminal joint ; antenna; slender, tanering, -with extremely short and fine ciliation ; legs 

 very robust, with very woolly femora; wings longer than in Rabila, with very similar 

 neuration. 



Eurahila lignea. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 6.) 



Most like the genus B<ecula, from Venezuela, in the style of coloration of the primaries ; 

 the latter are pale olive-brown, varied with whitish ; the basal fifth vinous brown, varied with 

 whitish and with slaty grey on the costa, bounded towards inner margin by two conspicuous 

 dark brown spots ; centre of costal border white, barred with slaty grey ; central belt repre- 

 sented by two very irregular divergent white stripes edged with olive-brown ; four dark 

 mahogany-brown oblique lines in the cell, the first and fourth edged c^iternally, and the 

 second internally, with white ; reniform marking narrow, elongated, white with olive-brown 

 central and mahogany-brown external line ; two stripes between the cell to the inner margin, 

 the first angulated, mahogany-brown, abbreviated, the second for the most part olive-brown, 

 zigzag ; veins on each side of the centi-al belt white spotted with black ; an irregularly 

 sinuated, dark mahogany-brown, submarginal band commencing in a partly slaty-grey 

 triangular costal patch and bounded externally by a whitish line; apex pale olivaceous spotted 

 with mahogany-brown ; remainder of external border varied by blackish lines and pyriform 

 slaty-grey spots upon the veins : secondaries pale greyish brown, with slightly darker external 

 border and discocellular spot ; basi-costal area pearly white : head dark grey irrorated with 

 whitish, back of head and centre of collar whitish; thorax whitish; shoulders and tegulae 

 purplish brown ; dorsal crest with purplish and buff edges ; abdomen pale brown with reddish 

 tufts. Wings below sericeous whitish, the costal borders slightly reddish and speckled with 

 blackish scales ; centre of primaries greyish in certain lights; all the wings with two greyish 

 discal lines; a marginal scries of blackish dots; fringe of primaries tipped with black; 

 secondaries with a grey discocellular spot divided by tlie whitish vcinlet ; pectus pale smoky 

 grey ; tibia; and tarsi in front blackish, barred with whitish ; venter pale brown, slightly reddish. 

 Expanse of wings, ^ 42 millim., ? 49 millim. 



Dharmsala: at sugar in July ; a rare species. 



This is one of the most puzzling species in the collection ; it is therefore not surprising 

 that it was placed with the Noctuites in Mr. Hocking's boxes ; in many of its features it 

 resembles them, but it appears to have more aflinity to the Liinacodidx. 



PARASA, IValk. 



Parasa hockingii. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 4.) 

 Paraaa hockingii, Moore, I'roc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 4(»3. 



Near to 1'. lejiida : base of primaries rufous brown instead of blackish, outer edge 



