BY A. J. TUKNER. 589 



veloped. Antenope in ^ pectinated, apices simple; in 9 simple. 

 Thorax and abdomen not crested] thorax moderately liairy 

 beneath. Posterior legs of ^ stib-aborted, tibiae and tarsi 

 dilated and clothed with rough hair, all spurs absent, tarsi 

 flattened and closely appressed beneath abdomen. Hind wings 

 with a slight costal expansion at base; frenulum in ^ present 

 but weak: retinaculum close to base of forevvins. Forewin-'s 

 with 3 and 4 slightly separate at origin, 6 stalked, 11 from cell, 

 not anastomosing. Hindvvings with 3 and -4 connate or stalked*, 

 5 strongly approximated to 6, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 closely 

 approximated to cell for some distance, diverging shortly before 

 middle; discocellulars not angled and only slightly oblique. 



A development of Prasinocyma. The hindlegs of the $ have 

 an extraordinary resemblance to those of Eois eretmopus, Turn., 

 but have been independently developed, there being no near 

 kinship between the two. Ty]>e Thnlassodes jnarinaria, Gn. 



47. ErETMOPUS MARINARIA. 



Thalassodes marinaria Gn., Lep. ix. p. 361; Hmps., Moths 

 lud. iii. p. 508: Geometra discissa Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 5 17; G eovietra jysnicillata Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 525. 



(J. 38 mm. Crown green, with a very narrow faint reddish 

 line anteriorly; fillet broadly snow-white; face and palpi grey- 

 bro.vn. Antennae white, towards apices ochreous-tinged; pecti- 

 nations in 5" 3. Thorax and abdomen. bluish-green; tuft, sides 

 and under surface whitish. Legs whitish; anterior pair dull 

 purple-brown. Forewings triangular, costa nearly straight to 

 near apex, then strongly arched, apex rounded, termen sligiitly 

 bowed, oblique; bluish-green with faintly paler transver.se 

 strigulse sparsely distributed; costal edge whitish-ochreous, at 

 base whitish; cilia whitish, with minute fuscous dots at end of 

 veins. Hind wings obtusely bowed on vein 4; as forewings. 

 Underside green-whitish; costa of forewings and base of hind- 

 wings tinged with ochreous. 



* Stalked in myexampled, not stalked according to Sir Geo. Hampson. 



