LIMACODIDJE. \2l 



exterior margin oblique, posterior angle convex ; first subcostal emitted at one-third 

 and second from close to end of the cell, third from the end, trifid ; discocelliilars 

 bent very acutely inward in the middle, emitting a discoidal veinlet within the cell ; 

 upper radial from middle of upper discocellular, lower radial from lower discocellular 

 above end of the cell; lower median at one-third and middle median at one-sixth 

 before end of the cell; submedian running close to median, internal vein with a 

 lower branch at one-third from its base : hindwing short ; subcostal bent upward 

 near base and slightly touching the costal, two subcostal branches on a footstalk at 

 one-fifth, beyond end of tlie cell ; upper discocellular short, lower long, extending 

 outward ; a discoidal veinlet emitted from angle within the cell ; radial from near 

 middle of lower discocellular ; lower median emitted at two-fifths and middle median 

 at one-fifth before end of th.e cell ; a submedian and two internal veins. Body stout, 

 thorax thick ; palpi porrect, densely pilose, extending slightly beyond the head, 

 laterally thickened and pointed in front ; legs thick, pilose, tibise and base of tarsi 

 laterally fringed ; antennse in male closely bipectinated to about one-third from the 

 base, thence serrated to tip ; antennse simple in female. 

 Type, P. lepida. 



PARAS A LEPIDA (Plate 128, Fig. 2, 2a, ^ q, 25, larva). 



Phal. Noct. lepida, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 130, fig. E (1779). 

 Parasa lepida, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 413, pi. 21, fig. 3, a, h, c, d. 

 Limacodes graciosa, WestwooJ, Cabinet of Orient. Ent. p. 50, pi. 24, fig. 4 (1847). 

 Newra graciosa, Wallier, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1139. 



Male and female. Ferruginous-brown : forewing with a broad medial very 

 obliquely transverse grass-green band, the inner border of the band ending at the 

 posterior base of the wing, the outer border being nearly straight ; base of the wing 

 darker ferruginous-brown : hindwing pale ferruginous-brown, the base tinged with 

 olive-brown. Body and legs ferruginous-brown ; sides of the head and tegulas green. 



Expanse, ^ If, ? If inch. 



Larva Hmaciform, pale green, whitish above ; with a dorsal and a lateral dark 

 green band, a subdorsal and a sublateral row of short fleshy, spinous tubercles, the 

 spines of anterior and posterior tubercles tipped with red. Cocoon oval, purple- 

 brown. 



" Feeds on Coffea, Thgea, &c." {Dr. Thiuaites.) 



PAEASA L^TA (Plate 130, Fig. 1, ^). 



Limacodes Icsta, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entom. p. 50 (1847), S. 



Nyssia Iceta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1137 (1855). 



Parasa retracta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 483 (1865), ?. 



Forewing ferruginous-brown, with a transverse medial obhque grass-green band, 



