72 LIMACODID.E. 



Cania* obliquifascia. (Plate CLX. fig. 4.) 



Expanse $15 inch. 



Female. Fore wing silky vinous fawn-colour, irroratcd with dark scales ; an oblique dark 

 fascia from the costa befoie apex to the middle of inner margin. Some specimens are paler, 

 and have a lunulate brown submarginal mark opposite the centre of outer margin. Hind 

 wing and underside paler and yellower. Antennse, head, thorax, and abdomen ruddy brown. 



Parasa lepida, Cram. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 4.) 

 Phalaena-Noctua lepida, Cram. Pap. Krot. ii. pi. 130. f. 2. 



The larva difl'ers considei-ably in colour according to the plants upon which it has been 

 feeding — two well-marked varieties feeding on coffee and tea. The former usually have a pale 

 greyish-white ground-colour, with three bright green dorsal stripes ; whilst those living on 

 the tea-plant are more brilliantly coloured, ha^dng brilliant mauve stripes on a rich yellowish- 

 green ground. 



The eggs of P. lepida are flat, overlapping each other like the scales of a fish. The 

 complete mass of eggs appears to be covered by a delicate transparent membrane or cementing- 

 substance. 



Parasa viridis. (Plate CLX. fig. 9.) 



Expanse (J 1^ inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright green; antennse and palpi ochreous brown. 

 Fore wing with the margins brown, expanding into a patch on the inner margin near outer 

 angle. Abdomen and bind wing pale brown. 



Nearest to P. bicolor, Wlk., from which it differs in having the inner and outer margins 

 of the fore wing brown and no spots on the disk. 



SPATULICRASPEDA, g. n. 



Shape as in Limacodes ; the male with the antennre heavily bipectinatcd for three-fourths 

 of their length, the distal fourth simple. Palpi short and porrect. Fore leg with the femur and 

 tibia densely clad with hair ; mid legs with a pair of tibial spurs, the femur, tibia, and first 

 two joints of tarsus hairy ; hind leg with two ])airs of tibial spurs and not so hairy. Cilia 

 with the extremities unusually spatulate. Fore wing -with costal nervure; the first and 

 second snbcostals from before the end of cell, the third trifid from the end ; the upper radial 

 from middh' of discocellulars ; the lower radial and third median branch from the lower end 

 of the cell, the second and first branches from before the end; the submcdian nearly straight. 

 Hind wing with the subcostal and costal anastomosing and separating again at the middle of 

 the cell, the subcostal forking before the apex ; a radial ; two median branches from the lower 

 end of cell, one from before the end; siibmcdian and internal nervures. 



* This should be placed in Birthama, Wlk. 



