HILDA, 107 



margin of vei'tex almost continuously bUick ; pronotum with Ihe 

 margins testaceous ; basal area of face between the eyes black, 

 with four pi-oiniuent small white spots, in some specimens the 

 spots near the eyes are obsolete and only the two central spots 

 are visible, this black area margined posteriorly with greyish 

 wliite ; clypeus, body beneath, and legs ochraceous ; tegmiua pale 

 testaceous, basal half of clavus castaneous with an apical white 

 margin, and this dark area outwardly continued on coriuiii, with a 

 larjre whitish spot varying in size and shape, corium also crossed 

 beyond middle by a whitish transverse fascia narrowly margined 

 with black and broadly angulated on each side at costal margin, 



Fig. 70. — Hilda Iwi/ffaleii^is, var. 



apical area a little paler in hue and inwardly defined and margined 

 by a waved pale greyisli line, and preceded near suture by a dark 

 vspot containing one or more small pupillate white spots ; wings . 

 hyaline ; face strongly transversely impressed between the in- 

 sertions of the antenna^ medially angulate, the latenil margins 

 before the angulation moderately concave ; vertex with a distinct 

 longitudinal im pression. 



Vars. — Becoming darker in hue, the pale green coloration 

 replaced by dark testaceous, and with a lar^-e piceous or dusky 

 spot in the white subbasal spot to corium and in the postmedial 

 transverse whitish fascia to same. 



Length inch tegm. 5-54 milliin. 



Hab. Bengal ; Pusa, Muzaft'arpur, Barisal. 



Allied to ff. 7nc(lai/ensis, Dist., from which it differs by the longi- 

 tudinally impressed vertex, the angulate face, concolorous legs, 

 partial or complete absence of the ocellate spots on apical area of 

 tegmina, &c. 



Hilda ixusta to replace Egroi>a inusta, 

 p. 368). 



Melich. (Vol. ilJ, 



