GEOMETBIDJE. 429 



Expanse <j ^, $ 1-^^ inch. 



Larva with 10 legs; head bifid; a pointed prominence on 12th segment, 

 colour yellow, with a dorsal slender red double line ; middle segments with slender 

 black dorsal looped-marks; legs black. Pupa pale green; abdominal segments 

 minutely black-speckled. 



" Feeds on Barringtonia " {Thcaltes). 



THALERA DISJUNCTA (Plate 196, Fig. 5). 

 Thalera disjuncta. Walker, C'atal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 59.5 (1861), ?. 

 Dull glaucescent-green ; cilia whitish. Wings with a curved discal row of 

 indistinct whitish points, a marginal slender ferruginous-brown line interspaced 

 with white vein-points ; a prominent rounded spot at end of each cell, composed of a 

 yellow-bordered ferruginous brown ringlet with grey centre. Shaft of antenna) 

 and vertex whitish ; front of head, palpi and legs above ferruginous-brown. 

 Expanse Ito inch. 



THALERA ALBANNULARIA. 

 Thalassodes alhanmdaria. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 554 (18G1). 



" Male. Yellow. "Wings moderately broad, minutely speckled with pale 

 brown ; a small white brown-bordered ringlet on each disc : forewings acute ; 

 costa very slightly convex ; exterior border moderately obhque. Palpi short, 

 obliquely ascending, third joint very minute ; antennte broadly pectinated nearly 

 to the tips. 



" Expanse 12 hues." 



In CoU. E. L. Layard. 



THALERA MERITARIA. 

 Geometra meritaria. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 522 (1861), $. 



Female. Pale green ; of a slight emerald tint. Wings with a yellowish-bordered 

 purple-red narrow marginal band, which is chalybeous-speckled ; cilia yellow; a 

 large quadrate yellow-bordered purple-red spot at end of each cell ; a discal series of 

 yellow-bordered red spots, and a spot also near base of posterior margin of fore- 

 wing; costa yellow and slightly red-speckled. Thorax green; abdomen above, shaft 

 of antennse and vertex, whitish ; front of head, palpi and forelegs above ochreous- 

 brown ; body and legs beneath ochreous-white. 



Expanse to inch. 



THALERA LJESARIA. 

 lodis Iccsaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 544 (1861). 

 " Female. Very pale green, wings very delicate ; with an ochreous spot in the 

 disc, and with an exterior slightly curved ochreous line ; marginal points ochreous. 

 "Expanse 5| lines." 



