298 Ml-. BuTLEii's Dt'scriptions of Lepidoptera. 



siiperiore cum vena costali conflueute ; vena radiali cum sub- 

 costali coutinua ; nervula discocellulari perobliqua, vena mediana 

 quadriramosa, ramis tertio quartoque a pediculo pone cellulam 

 emissis ; corpus robustum, lauare, antennis longis late pectinatis ; 

 palpis brevibus, dense pilosis. Gen. typ. A. insignis. 



Ancltirithra insignis, n. sp. 



Body sillvy Avbity-ljrown, the antenna^ and protliorax pale 

 ferruginous ; primaries sericeous wliity-brown, with slightly 

 yellowish costal margin and reddish external border continuing 

 to the middle of the inner margin ; two parallel longitudinal 

 ferruginous stripes dividing the wing into thi'ee nearly equal 

 areas ; secondaries pale ferruginous ; imder surface uniformly 

 pale ferruginous without markings. Expanse of Avings 1 inch 

 -S lines. 



A pecuUar looking species with rather strange neuration. 



Parasa singularis, n. sp. 



Thorax bright gas-green ; abdomen pale stramineous ; pri- 

 maries bright green ; the base pale ferruginous, bounded externally 

 by a darker line of the same colour and followed by two unequal 

 triangular patches of silvery- white ; median vein silvery-white ; 

 fringes ferruginous ; a basi-subcostal streak and the outer border 

 white ; secondaries j)ale stramineous with testaceous fi-inge ; 

 body below ferruginous ; Avings pale stramineous with the costal 

 area broadly pale ferruginous, the discoidal area of primaries and 

 basi-costal area of secondaries being deeper in coloiu". Expanse 

 of Avings 1 inch 9 lines. 



Quite unlike any species known to me. 



