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SuBFAJMLY GEOMETRINAE. 

 35. Agathia obsoleta sp. uov. (PI. V. fig. 4, 3). 



Forewings : pale pea-green, with olive-fascons speckles; costa drab, dotted 

 with black scales, and thinning out towards aj)ex : an olive-fnscons basal jiatch 

 from median to inner margin ; first line pale olive-drab, sinnons from median vein 

 to inner margin, obsolete above median, except for a small black subcostal spot ; 

 cell-spot olive-fascons, round ; a diffuse dark olive-fnscons submarginal fascia, not 

 reaching costa and attenuated towards anal angle, with both edges waved, the inner 

 with a sinus in middle, tlie outer jiroduced at middle to hindmargiu ; fringe bright 

 green at base, the outer half olive-fuscous ; a black marginal dot at end of vein 4. 



llindwinga : like forewings, but the submargiual band paler, split up into 

 narrow crooked bands above and forming a large oblong blotch at anal angle ; the 

 inner baud, which is really the outer line, marked by black dashes on the veins, and 

 containing a narrow rectangular green space between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe in lower 

 half of wing wholly olive-fuscous ; anal angle marked by a black spot. 



Underside of forewings pale fulvous green, with ferruginous mottlings ; the 

 iuner margin whitish ; costa, as above, drab with black sjjots ; cell-spot black, 

 edged with ferrngiuous ; submarginal Iwnd black, touching costa and exjjanded to 

 hindmargin at apex, middle, and anal angle ; space between whitish green ; fringe 

 whitish, mottled with dark. Hindwings pale green, with the costa and markings 

 ochreous : the two bands and margin blackisli. Palpi and lower half of face whitish 

 ochreous ; tips of palpi, upper part of face, and vertex brown-drab ; collar, thorax, 

 and abdomen bright green, the latter speckled with pale olive-fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 4.5 mm. 



One c? from Mount Ged(5, West Java, 4000 feet, 1806 (Fruhstorfer). 



There is an example, without locality, in the British Museum Collection. 



3G. Agraptochlora nigricornis sp. nnv. (PI. V. fig. 14, cJ). 



Foreichuis : deep 'grass-green, without markings ; fringe green ; costa deep 

 ochreous to middle, tinged with red-brown at base, beyond middle witii fine black 

 scales. 



Ilindwinys : wliolly green. 



Underside whitish ; costa of forewings reddish at base. Face, palpi, and fore- 

 legs deep red ; fillet reddish ; antennae with the shaft reddish from base, becoming 

 whitish in outer half ; pectinations Ijlackish ; vertex ochreous and red ; thorax and 

 base of abdomen dec]) green ; centre of thorax paler green ; rest of abdomen ochreons, 

 dusted witli reddish grey, and with reddish grey dorsal blotches. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



Two J (? from Mombasa Island, October ISOO (Dr. Ansorge). 



37. Chloroglyphica maculata sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 23, ? ). 



Forewings : dull green, dnsted withisparse jiurjdish grey atoms ; costa brownish 

 ochreous, spotted with darker ; this tint extends as far as the median vein between 

 base and first line, and as far as vein 7 beyond the second Hue, narrowing again to 

 the apex ; basal area more thickly dusted with dark scales ; first line wliite, straight, 

 outwardly oblicjue, from costa at one-fourth to inner margin at one-third, its outer 



