304 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXIV. 1917. 



Underside whitish blue-green, unmarked ; costal edge of forewing ochreous, 

 slightly shaded with rufous basally, a still slighter rufous suffusion over a wide 

 area proximaUy except towards hindmargin. 



N. India: Dalhousie, May 1891. Type in coll. Tring Museum. 



A pair from Dharmsala (= nymph a But!., III. Het. vii. 22, ex. err. det.) 

 show the (J antennal pectinations to be long, hindtibia not much thickened. 

 Differs from maculata Moore in its small size, more bent termen of hindwing, 

 reduced ocelli, better developed and less deeply bent postmedian line, and 

 especially in having the discocellulars of the forewing of more normal Comostola 

 form ; albifitnbria Warr. and maculata Moore should, strictly speaking, be placed 

 in Gomostolopsis, making a transition towards Comostola. 



29. Comostola demeritaiia spec. nov. 



(J ?, 18-21 mm. Face light reddisli, becoming more ochreous below. Palpus 

 in (J about one-and-a-half times diameter of eye, in ? about two-and-a-half 

 times ; light ochreous, strongly mixed with red except beneath. Vertex and 

 antennal shaft very pale sulphur-yellow ; S pectinations four or five times 

 diameter of shaft. Occiput green, separated from the yellow vertex by a slender 

 red line. Thorax and abdomen green above, white beneath and at anal extremity. 

 Hindtibia in S dilated, but without terminal process. 



Forewing with DC little bent at origin of R^ SC from cell or shortly stalked, 

 R' stalked or occasionally connate ; light blue-green, almost as in laesaria 

 Walk, or a shade bluer ; costal edge pale yellow, with the dark speckling gener- 

 ally slight, no dark spots at origin of hnes ; lines represented by double spots, 

 their approximated parts very pale yellow, their reverse parts red ; the ante- 

 median spots placed on SM- at one-third and (smaller, sometimes obsolescent) 

 on M ; the postmedian on all the veins from R' hindward, slightly excurved 

 between R- and SM-, those on R'-JI' confluent, that on SM- confluent with a 

 spot at about two-thirds hindmargin, the rest small, sometimes obsolescent ; 

 cell-spot moderate, roundish, rather duller than in laesaria ; terminal line rather 

 strong, interrupted at veins, red proximally. dark and metallic distally, in places 

 separated from fringe by an exceedingly slender white line ; fringe pale yellow, 



with an obhque dark mark at apex. Hindwing rather long and narrow, 



termen bluntly bent at R' ; antemedian line wanting, cell-spot rather larger, 

 oftenest diamond-shaped, some light metallic scales in its middle. 



Underside whitish blue-green, costal edge of forewing and all fringes 

 yellowish ; ceU-spots feebly showing through. 



Khasis, December to April. A series in coll. Tring Museum, the type dated 

 March 1894. Also in other collections. 



Not differentiated by Warren from meritaria Walk. ; vnngs rather less 

 broad, discocellulars much less characteristic, cell-spots less large, vertex and 

 antenna less white. 



30. Comostola cedilla spec. nov. 



(J, 22 mm. ; ?, 25 mm. Face dull dark red, sometimes mixed with blackish ; 



very narrowly white below. Palpus ochreous and reddish above, whitish 



beneath ; second joint with some black irroration on outer side. Crown much 



mixed with red and with a little black. Base of antennal shaft somewhat mixed 



