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Genus PARAONA. 

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



Type, P. splendens, Butl. 



Range. Bombay. 



Palpi porrect. Antennae with short bristles in female. Pore wing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4 and 5 from angle ; 6 and 

 10 from the areole ; 7 from after it. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 angle of cell ; 4 and 5 on a short stalk ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



1323. Paraona splendens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357 ; Moore, 

 P. Z. S. 1878, pi. 1, fig. 1 ; C.&S. no. 567. 



2 . Puscous ; the head, tegulse, and metathorax metallic blue- 

 green ; collar bright yellow. Pore wing with a coppery tinge ; the 



Pig. 37. — Paraona splendens, §. \. 



veins streaked with blue-green, especially the nervures near the 

 base ; a golden-yellow streak from the base below the median 

 nervure. 



Hah. Bombay. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus PHILAGRIA. 

 Philagria, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Set. p. 336 (1892) 



Type, P. entella, Cram. 



Range. India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo ; Celebes ; New 

 Hebrides. 



Palpi porrect, the second joint fringed with hair. Antennas of 

 male bipectinated, the branches short, and with a bristle from the 

 end. Pore wing very long and narrow ; vein. 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4 and 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, stalked ; 

 no areole. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked ; 6 and 7 on a 

 short stalk ; 8 from middle of cell. 



1324. Philagria entella, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pL 208, fig. D j C. $ S. 

 no. 570. 

 Noctua delia, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 140. 

 ^Eonistis entelliola, Hiibn. Verz. p. 165. 

 Noctua convoluta Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 215. 



