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jN'OCTUIDJE. 
long and somewhat dilated at tips ; frons rather narrow, with 
vertical ridge at middle ; eyes large, round, somewhat approxi- 
mated in front ; antennae of male minutely serrate, with 
bristles and fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed with hair and 
scales mixed and without crests ; tibia? slightly fringed with 
hair ; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair on basal segments 
but without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex 
rectangular, the termen evenly curved and slightly sinuous ; 
veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from 
upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a rather 
long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen 
angled at vein 4 and crenulate ; the cell about one-third 
length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper 
angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus HEMEROBLEMMA. 
- - Type. 
Hemeroblemma , Hiibn. Verz. p. 270 (1827) dolon, Cram. 
Thermesia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 270 (1827) acron , Cram. 
Brvjas, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 139 (1852) malitiosa, Guen. 
Obucola, Walk. xv. 1857 (185s) expand ens. Walk 
Hemeroblemma paramcea, n. sp. 
($. Head, tegulse, and shoulders dark brown mixed with some 
white, the rest of thorax white tinged with olive-brown ; 
pectus and legs brown irrorated with whitish ; abdomen 
chocolate-brown, the ventral surface brown irrorated with 
white. Fore wing with the costal area whitish suffused with 
olive-brown and defined below by a pure white fascia from 
apex to inner margin near base, the rest of wing deep chocolate- 
brown with the lines on it hardly traceable ; an oblique 
dark subbasal striga from costa defined on outer side by whitish ; 
antemedial line dark, bent inwards and waved in cell, then 
oblique and sinuous ; a small dark annulus in middle of cell ; 
reniform with dark outline, conical ; three diffused waved 
lines beyond the cell from costa to the white fascia ; post- 
medial line double, brown, waved, very oblique from vein 5 
to origin of vein 2 ; a double waved brown subterminal line ; 
small brown lunules before termen and a waved terminal line 
on the pale costal area. Hind wing deep chocolate-brown, 
the terminal area shot with blue ; three very indistinct 
dentate lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line double, 
faintly defined on each side by and filled in with whitish, 
dentate ; a subterminal series of small white spots, and a 
series of slight dark lunules defined on outer side by whitish 
before termen. Underside red-brown irrorated with white ; 
fore wing with slight spot in middle of cell and discoidal bar, 
two faint lines beyond the cell, postmedial line slightly waved 
