4t) 
LIMACODID^. 
crest ; abdomen very similar to Thyatira, with the same tufts ; palpi shorty thick^ with very- 
short terminal joint ; antennae slender, tapering, with extremely short and fine ciliation ; legs 
very robust, with very woolly femora; wings longer than in Rabila, with very similar 
neuration. 
EurabUa lignea. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 6.) 
Most like the genus Bcecula, from Venezuela, in the style of coloration of the primaries ; 
the latter are pale olive-brown, varied with whitish ; the basal fifth vinous brown, varied with 
whitish and with slaty grey on the costa, bounded towards inner margin by two conspicuous 
dark brown spots ; centre of costal border white, barred with slaty grey ; central belt repre- 
sented by two very irregular divergent white stripes edged with olive-brown ; four dark 
mahogany-brown oblique lines in the cell, the first and fourth edged externally, and the 
second internally, with white ; reniform marking narrow, elongated, white with olive-brown 
central and mahogany-brown external line ; two stripes between the cell to the inner margin, 
the first angulated, mahogany-brown, abbreviated, the second for the most part olive-brown, 
zigzag ; veins on each side of the central belt white spotted with black ; an irregularly 
sinuated, dark mahogany-brown, submarginal band commencing in a partly slaty-grey 
triangular costal patch and bounded externally by a whitish line; apex pale olivaceous spotted 
with mahogany-brown ; remainder of external border varied by blackish lines and pyriform 
slaty-grey spots upon the veins : secondaries pale greyish brown, with slightly darker external 
border and discocellular spot ; basi-costal area pearly white : head dark grey irrorated with 
whitish, back of head and centre of collar whitish; thorax whitish; shoulders and tegulaa 
purplish brown ; dorsal crest with purplish and buff edges ; abdomen pale brown with reddish 
tufts. Wings below sericeous whitish, the costal borders slightly reddish and speckled with 
blackish scales ; centre of primaries greyish in certain lights ; all the wings with two greyish 
discal lines; a marginal series of blackish dots; fringe of primaries tipped with black; 
secondaries with a grey discocellular spot divided by the whitish veinlet ; pectus pale smoky 
grey; tibiae and tarsi in front blackish, barred with whitish; venter pale brown, slightly reddish. 
Expanse of wings, (J 42 millim., $ 49 millim. 
Pharmsala: at sugar in July; a rare species. 
This is one of the most puzzling species in the collection ; it is therefore not surprising 
that it was placed with the Noctuites in Mr. Hocking's boxes ; in many of its features it 
resembles them, but it appears to have more affinity to the Limacodidce, 
PAEASA, Walk. 
Parasa hockingii. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 4.) 
Paraaa hockingii, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 403. 
Near to P. lepida : base of primaries rufous brown instead of blackish, outer edge 
