520 KOCXUID.!). 



Fore wing pale sa])-gTecu ; autemediul line white defined on outer 

 side by brown, slightly sinuous; the medial area with a brown 

 patch on inner margin ; a slight dark discoidal point; postraedial 

 line white defined on inner side by brown, excurved below costa 

 find at middle and sliglitly incurved at discal fold ; a subterminal 

 series of black-brown points ; cilia dark brown at base, rufous at 

 tips. Hind wing brown ; cilia whitish at tips ; tlio underside 

 whitish tinged with brown. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Bibianaha [Sjmrrell), 1 6 type. Ed-p. 

 22 millim. 



Genus PARACRAMA. 



Type. 



Paracrama, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 54 (1884) ditlcissima. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iiiitnrned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd very long; irons smooth ; eyes large, 

 ronnd ; antennre of male cih'ated ; thorax clothed witii scales and hair mixt-d 

 and without crests; tibire moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 iiud 5 from near angle of cell ; G from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



6892. Paracrama dulcissima. 



Nolasena duJci/s-ma, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 76 (18G4) ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 55, pi. 150. f. 11; Hmpsn. Molhs lud. ii. p. 134; 

 Swinh. Cat. Het. Miis. Oxon. ii. p. 589; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 281. 



'Paracrama reciomarginata, Hmpsn, 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 46, pi. 139. 

 f. 7 (1891) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het, p. 281. 



Head and thorax bright yellow-green ; palpi and frons chocolate- 

 brown mixed with purplish and white ; antennfe brown ; pectus 

 and legs white, the fore femora dark brown above, the fore and 

 mid tibige brown and white mixed, the tarsi ringed with cupreous 



Fig, 198. — Paraorama dulcUsima', (J . \. 



red ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with purplish pink. Fore 

 wing bright yellow-green; the costal edge purple-brown; some 

 purplish red at base of inner margin ; antemedial line fine, white, 

 oblique to median nervure ; postmedial line fine, white, oblique 

 from costa to vein 7, then erect, some short white streaks beyond 

 it on costa; a terminal purple-broAvn band with some whitish on it 

 towq-rds apex, very narrow except towards apex and below vein 2 



