EUPITIIECIA.— ARDONIS. 269 



ErrirriECiA ? c.risku'kxnis, n. sp. (Plate VI TI. fig. 28.) 



Female. Fore win^- dark lilacinc-txrcy, with an inwanlly-obliquc angular pale-odgcd 

 dark greyish-brown basal band, and a parallel medial band, which is narrowest across its 

 middle, is traversed by a pale grey line, and has a black outwardly-oblique spot at end of 

 the cell ; a paler greyish-brown sid)marginal fascia, traversed by a rccuived i)ale line : Iiiml 

 wing with two recurved medial slight Lircy-brown fascia-. an<l a sliort streak above anal angle. 

 Body dark grey ; bands on thorax and abdomen, palpi, and fore legs grey-brown. 



Expanse !-/„- inch. 



Ilab. Cherra Puiiji (October). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



ARDONIS, n. g. 



Male. Fore wing rather short, broad, apex obtusely pointed ; exterior margin erect 

 anteriorly, slightly oblique below the middle median, posterior margin rather short; cell 

 half the length ; first subcostal at one fourth, bifid, the first being partly joined to the 

 costal; third trifid, also partly joined to the second; sixth from end of cell ; discocellular 

 oblique, radial from its middle ; the middle median close to end, lower at two fifths : hind 

 wing very short, somewhat quadrate ; costal margin straight, apex convex, exterior margin 

 convex in tlie middle, anal angle somewhat produced ; cell broad, upper end one third the 

 length, lower end nearly half; two subcostals on a footstalk one third beyond the cell ; disco- 

 cellular very oblique, radial from above its middle ; the middle median at one sixth, lower 

 at one third. Body rather slender ; antenna? simple ; palpi porrect, extending two thirds 

 beyond the head, rather broad and flattened, third joint pointed; legs long, slender, smooth, 

 middle and hind spurs long and slender. 



Female. Fore wing witli the lower discal area of the underside of the wing smooth, 

 shining, nacreous, and with a glandular o\al depressed patcli of raised black scales below 

 the lower median vein. Hind wing with the apical area on the upperside similarly 

 nacreous, and with an oval patch of speckled black scales between the base of the subcostals. 

 Body rather stout ; palpi more slender. 



ArDOXIS CHLOROPniLATA. 



Eiipithecia chlorophilata, "Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1768 (1862), ? . 



Male. Grass-green. Fore wing with four equidistant violet-brown patches along the 

 costa, and one on middle of the exterior margin, a small spot at end of the cell, one below 

 its base, three obliquely below its middle, and ;i discal series disposed on the veins : hind 

 Ming with the apical area nacreous, a glandular patch of black scales between the base of 

 the subcostals; some transverse subbasal, medial, and discal black speckles, and some also 

 on the anal margin. Underside very pale brownish-ochreous, with browner transverse 

 fascije : fore wing with a low-er discal nacreous space and a depressed oval glandular 

 patch of black scales below the lower median, the patch being also slightly visible from the 

 upperside. Band on tegultt, and base of abdomen brown. 



Expanse -po inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In British Museum and coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



