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LTMACODID^. 
Cania * obliquifascia. (Plate CLX. fig. 4.) 
Expanse ? 1| inch. 
Female. Fore wing silky vinous fawn-colour, irrorated with dark scales ; an oblique dark 
fascia from the costa before apex to the middle of inner margin. Some specimens are paler, 
and have a lunulate brown submarginal mark opposite the centre oH outer margin. Hind 
wing and underside paler and yellower. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen ruddy brown. 
Parasa lepida, Cram. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 4.) 
Phalsena-Noctua lepida, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 130. f. 2. 
The larva dififers considerably in colour according to the plants upon which it has been 
feeding — two well-marked varieties feeding on colFee and tea. The former usually have a pale 
greyish-white ground-colour, with three bright green dorsal stripes ; whilst those living on 
the tea-plant are more brilliantly coloured, having brilliant mauve stripes on a rich yellowish- 
green ground. 
The eggs of P. lepida are flat, overlapping each other like the scales of a fish. The 
complete mass of eggs appears to be covered by a delicate transparent membrane or cementing- 
substance. 
Parasa viridis. (Plate CLX. fig. 9.) 
Expanse c? 1^ inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright green ; antennse and palpi ochreous brown. 
Fore wing with the margins brown, expanding into a patch on the inner margin near outer 
angle. Abdomen and hind wing pale brown. 
Nearest to P. bicolor, Wlk., from which it difi'ers in having the inner and outer margins 
of the fore wing brown and no spots on the disk. 
SPATULICRASPEDA, g. n. 
Shape as in Limacodes ; the male with the antennae heavily bipectinated for three-fourths 
of their length, the distal fourth simple. Palpi short and porrect. Fore leg with the femur and 
tibia densely clad with hair ; mid legs with a pair of tibial spurs, the femur, tibia, and first 
two joints of tarsus hairy ; hind leg with two pairs of tibial spurs and not so hairy. Cilia 
with the extremities unusually spatulate. Fore wing with costal nervure; the first and 
second subcostals from before the end of cell, the third trifid from the end ; the upper radial 
from middle of discocellulars ; the lower radial and third median branch from the lower end 
of the cell, the second and first branches from before the end ; the submedian nearly straight. 
Hind wing with the subcostal and costal anastomosing and separating again at the middle of 
the cell, the subcostal forking before the apex ; a radial ; two median branches from the lower 
end of cell, one from before the end; submedian and internal nervures. 
* This should be placed in Birthama, Wlk. 
