NOVITATES ZoOLOaiCAE XXIV. 1917. 301 



22. lodis colpostrophia spec. nov. 



(J, 33 mm. Very similar to coeruleata Warr., possibly a local race of it. 

 Forewing with apex less pointed, termen distinctly curved (in coeruleata 

 straight) ; SC almost connate with SC-"', not anastomosing with C, R' connate, 

 M' just separate ; apparently rather deeper, and at the same time yellower, 

 green than in coeruleata (but probably a little discoloured in relaxing) ; bands 

 broader and still more ill-defined, except the second band distally, where it is 

 edged by a rather sharply white postmedian line, which is even more deeply 

 dentate than in coeruleata ; similar dark-green shading about DC, suggesting 



a long-oval, pale-centred cell-mark (sometimes indicated in coeruleata). 



Hindivmg rather broad, with the tail rather short ; the green antcmedian band 

 rather well developed except at coeta, partly merged with a green line just 

 outside DC, so as to enclose a roundish pale cell-mark. 



South Java, 1,500 m., 1891 (H. Fruhstorfer). Type in coll. Tring Museum. 



A $ from Rukit.Putus, Selangore, 3,000 ft., May 1896 (Curtis), is rather 

 larger ; palpus at least twice as long as diameter of eye, with long third joint ; 

 R' shortly stalked. I know no authentic $ of coeruleata, but in a worn specimen 

 from Digboi, Assam, which I have provisionally determined as such, the palpus 

 is not more than one-and-thrce-quarter times the diameter of eye. 



23. lodis xynia spec. nov. 



■S, 25-28 mm. ; ?, 32 mm. Face pale green. Palpus in <J fully half as 

 long again as diameter of eye, with third joint shortish ; in $ fully two-and-a- 

 half times diameter of eye, with third joint fully as long as second ; mixed with 

 ferruginous above, white beneath. Antenna in (J pectinate to one-half, with 

 longish branches. Vertex narrowly white ; occiput green. Thorax green 

 above, white beneath. Abdomen above green basally, otherwise whitish ; 

 beneath white. Hindtibia in 3 with strong ensheathed hair-pencil ; tarsus 

 slightly over one-half as long as tibia. 



Wings shaped as in argutaria Walk, or iridescens Warr.- Forewing with 



SC connate or occasionally stalked (in one Dharmsala 3 just separate), ana- 

 stomosing rather strongly with C and with SC ; opalescent white, the reflections 

 in most lights pearl-blue ; irroration fine, light oUve-greenish ; costal edge 

 ochreous ; the greenish shades which accompany the fines and cell-mark, as 

 well as that at distal margin, diffuse and ill-defined ; lines white ; antemedian 

 ill-defined at costa, less so posteriorly, placed at less than one-fourth the wing- 

 length anteriorly, lunulate outward between the veins (but not deeply), reach- 

 ing hind margin at about one-third ; postmedian more distinct, 2 or 3 mm. 

 from termen, lunulate-dentate, not .strongly incurved between the radials and 

 posteriorly, as near termen at SM- as at M' ; termen \vith minute and incon- 

 spicuous white dots at veins. Hiridwing with first line weak or obsolescent ; 



otherwise similar. 



Underside opalescent ^hite ; forewing with costal half tinged with greenish, 

 costal edge bright ochreous. 



North India. Type, Khasis, March 1894, in coll. Tring Museum. 



Represented in most collections, but hitherto apparently mixed with argu- 

 taria Walk., which is very different in the less long $ palpus, darker green colour, 

 deeply sinuous and posteriorly thickened postmedian line and various other points. 



