LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1263 



Male. Fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Hind legs fringed 

 with black hairs. Wings with black marginal points. Fore wings 

 thinly black-speckled, with a black postmedial transversely elongated 

 patch ; this is concise on the inner side, diffuse and irregular on the 

 outer side, and is connected with a short whitish line which proceeds 

 from the costa. Hind wings cinereous, brownish along the exterior 

 border, and with a brownish postmedial oblique hardly undulating 

 line. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



Rio Joneiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Genus PARACHMA. 



Mas. Corpus lineare, sat gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi 

 squamosi, sat graciles, verticem paullo superantes ; articulus 2us 

 subarcuatus; 3us laneeolatus, 2i dimidio non brevior. Abdomen 

 alas posticas longe superans ; fasciculus apicalis magnus. Pedes 

 robusti, tibiis tarsisque posticis dense fimbriatis. Alae anticse bre- 

 viuscula*, latiuscula?, costa subinfiexa, inargine exteriore sub- 

 obliquo. 



Male. Body linear, rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi 

 squamous, rather slender, nearly erect, rising a little higher than 

 the vertex ; second joint slightly curved ; third lanceolate, about 

 half the length of the second. Abdomen extending much beyond 

 the hind wings ; apical tuft large. Legs stout ; hind tibiae and hind 

 tarsi densely fringed, the fringe of the latter formingtwo angular 

 tufts ; spurs stout, moderately long. Wings rather short and broad. 

 Fore wings slightly contracted along the middle of the costa, nearly 

 rectangular at the tips ; exterior border slightly convex and 

 oblique. 



This genus hardly belongs to the Pyralidce. 



Parachma ochracealis. 



Mas. Pallide ochracea ; pedes postici ferrugineo fimbriati ; alee 

 anticce lineis duabus 'Jlavescentibus ; postiecs rufescente-och- 

 racece. 



Male. Pale ochraceous. Hind legs fringed with ferruginous 

 hairs. Fore wings with two yellowish lines ; first line antemedial, 

 slightly curved outward ; second postmedial ; marginal line red ; 

 fringe yellowish white; under side reddish ochraceous. Hind wings 

 reddish ochraceous ; fringe yellowish white, interlined with reddish 



