296 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXIV. 1917. 



8. Tbalassodes ftirvifimbria .spec. nov. 



cJ, 37 mm. ; ?, 39—11 mm. Face green. Palpus elongate (in 3 almost, 

 in ? more than, twice as long as diameter of eye ; third joint in cjas long as, in ? 

 longer than, second joint), green, beneath white. Vertex green, only very narrowly 

 white in front. Hindtibia in 3 not dilated. Abdomen wthout dorsal orna- 

 mentation. 



Forewing sliaped, coloured, and marked as in the typical group, the white 



lines straight ; fringe, except at extreme base, dark grey. Hindwing with 



the angle at R' moderate or rather slight ; postmedian line .slight ; fringe as 

 on forewing. 



Ceylon : Pundaloya, December {type S), July and undated (2 $?), in coll. 

 Tring Museum ; a o without date and a ? April, in coll. British Museum, ex 

 coll. E. E. Green. 



Easily distinguished by the dark fringes and the 3 structure ; both the 

 other green-faced Indian species in which the 3 hindtibia is undilated (aucta 

 Prout and falsaria Prout) have shorter palpus and j'ellow fringes. Ihe <? type 

 has unfortunately lost the fringes, but is chosen for the structural charactei-s. 



9. Prasinocjona fragilis solida subsp. nov. 



Deeper green than /. fragilis Warr., the white lines fainter, the white spots 

 distally to the discocellulars almost or altogether obsolete. 



Rossel Island: Mount Eossel, 2,100 ft., November— December 1915 (W. F. 

 Eichhorn). Type in coll. Tring Museum. 



10. Metallochlora exorista .spec. nov. 



3, 32 mm. Closely similar to meeki Warr. and its subspecies tenuilinea 

 Warr., differing as follows : 



Antennal teeth shorter. Forewing with costal margin more markedly 



arched posteriorly, distal margin slightly more oblique ; costal margin more 

 broadl}' and brightly red, at extreme edge heavily mixed with black ; a dis- 

 tinct, though minute, black cell-dot present ; minute black dashes on SC and 

 sometimes on R' distally to the median silvery streak and proximaUy to the 



subterminal ; terminal dots somewhat enlarged towards apex. Hindwing 



more produced in middle of distal margin, the submarginal silverj' line in con- 

 sequence more acutely bent. — — ^Underside without the apical blotch of hindwing 

 or distal grcj' band. 



Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, March 1903 (A. S. Meek). Type in 

 coll. Tring Museum. 



11. Metallochlora mihtaris satisJacta subsp. nov. 



Forewing with the yellow costal edge somewhat widened, rather strongly 

 dark-dotted. Both wings with the red cell-dot larger, almost as in sanguini- 

 puncla Warr., the submarginal dots enlarged into dashes, placed rather farther 

 from the termen, the yellow border consequently somewhat widened. Hind 

 wing, as well as forewing, beneath with a fuscous apical dot. 



Goodenough Island, 2,500-4,000 ft, April and May 1913 (A. S. Meek). 4 $? 



