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3957. b Leptosidia ^eariaar insert Rhodostrophia anomala, Warr. Nov. Zool. 

 ii, p. 98 (,1805), which has priority. 



GEOMETRINjE. 



4008. a. Pseudoterpna NEONOMA, q. sp. (Plate E„ f . 24). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; patagia and prothorax with slight fuscous 

 marks, metathorax with slight fuscous streaks ; pectus and base of legs whitish, 

 the tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen red-brown with fuscous streaks on 

 1st segment, oblique black streaks on 2nd segment, the crests with black and 

 silvery scales, lateral black fascia? on 2nd and 3rd segments, the ventral surface 

 white. Forewing pale red-brown striated with black-brown except towards 

 base and slightly tinged with olive-green ; a dark subbasal line from costa to 

 vein 1 ; an oblique slightly sinuous black antemedial line ; an elliptical brown 

 spot at upper angle of cell ; postmedial line black, minutely dentate, slightly 

 incurred and with a faint line before it from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 a diffused brown curved brand from costa before apex to vein 5, with slight 

 white marks on its outer edge, the area beyond it greyish ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line. Hindwing pale red-brown irrorated and striated with dark 

 brown ; postmedial line fine black excurved below costa, then very oblique 

 to vein 4, then dentate to inner margin just beyond middle, a faint red -brown 

 shade beyond it between veins 6 and 4 ; a fine slightly waved black terminal 

 line. Underside white ; forewing with fuscous striae on costa, a faint ante- 

 medial line, blackish discoidal spot, postmedial line oblique below vein 4, the 

 area beyond it suffused with fuscous except towards tornus ; hindwing with 

 slight discoidal striga and postmedial line from costa near apex to tornus 

 diffused between veins 7 and 4 and below vein 3. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole). Exp. 42 mill. Type in B. M. 



4025. b. Pseudoterpna ochreipicta, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xv, p. 160 

 (1905). 



$ . Head and thorax sap-green ; abdomen green irrorated with fuscous ; 

 pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous ; tarsi fuscous ; wings 

 pale green thickly striated and mottled with dark sap-green. Forewing 

 with traces of a waved antemedial line defined on inner side by a few 

 leaden scales and with a flesh-coloured spot before it on inner margin ; 

 postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by leaden scales on outer &ide and 

 with small flesh-coloured spots beyond it above vein 5 and at inner margin, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent outwards ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hindwing with small discoidal spot ; minutely dentate 

 postmedial line defined by leaden scales on outer side and with a flesh- 

 coloured spot beyond it at inner margin ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Underside pale yellow, both wings with round black discoidal spots and broad 

 fuscous postmedial band with fuscous striation beyond it, on forewing 

 oxtending to termen, on hindwing the band attenuating and not quite reaching 

 inner margin. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 48 mill. 



