228 AECTIAD^. 



Fig. 149. — Palcsosia bicosta, c?. \. 



Hah. N. S. Wales, Sydney, 1 c? , 1 ? type, (Rai/nor) 1 $ ; 

 Tasmania, Hobart (Mathew), 3 c? , 1 $ type fraterna. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



Genus PARAONA. 



Type. 



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



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond frons which 

 h IS a tuft of scales ; antennae of male serrate, with bristles and fasciculate cilia ; 

 tibiae with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing 

 moderately broad ; vein 2 from middle of cell, oblique ; 3 from before angle ; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell; 3 

 from angle; 4, 5 shortly stalked; 6, 7 shoi-tly stalked ; 8 from before middle of 

 cell. 



A. Head and thorax scarlet coccinioeps. 



B. Head and thorax dark. 



a. Fore wing without green streaks on the veins or yellow 



fascia staudingeri. 



h. Fore wing with green streaks on the veins and yellow 



fascia splendens. 



*474. Paraona cocciniceps. (Plate XXIV. fig. 10.) 



lAthosia cocciniceps, Mab. C.R. Ent. Soc. Beige, xxviii. p. cisxxix (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 316. 



S . Head and thorax scarlet ; antennae, tibire, and tarsi black ; 

 abdomen purple-black. Fore wing black suffused with blue, the 

 base scarlet. Hind wing purple-black, the base scarlet. 



Bah. Madagascar, type t c? in Coll. Mabille. E.vjy. 34 millim. 



*475. Paraona standingeri. 



Paraona siaudingeri, Alph. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 168, pi. xii. f. 8 (1897). 



Dull greyish brown with a slight bluish gloss ; tegulae, palpi except 

 at tips, pectus, femora, and ventral surface of abdomen varying from 

 golden-yellow to orange-red ; anal tuft tinged with ochreous at base. 

 Hind wing paler and without blue gloss. 



Hah. CoKEA; China, Omei Shan, 1 d in Coll. Leech. Ewp. 50 

 millim. 



