16 Ml'. Butler's descriptions of new species of 



32. Calliteara prasina. 



^ Primaries above pale sap-green, the costal area darker and 

 bluer-green, divided by oblique snow-white dashes ; the fifth 

 dark-green costal patch from the base continued, as a sinuated 

 sap-green line darker than the ground colour, across the disc ; 

 beyond this there is a very faint indication of the commencement 

 of a series of white bordered spots ; costal margin black edged 

 between the white dashes; a large blackish oval patch before the 

 middle of the inner margia ; fringe creamy-white ; secondaries 

 white, the basi-abdominal half sordid ; a brown dash close to 

 anal angle ; thorax green ; abdomen whity-brown with a dark 

 brown dorsal crest ; under surface white ; the primaries with a 

 discoidal streak and a subcostal streak exjoanding towards the 

 apex dark brown ; costal border cream coloured ; submedian and 

 internal areas streaked with red-brown ; secondaries with a 

 brown flecked arched purplish or laky-brown streak from the 

 base to the extremity of the second median branch, where it 

 joins a second straight longitudinal streak of the same colour ; 

 abdominal area flecked with laky-browa ; legs greenish above ; 

 venter with the posterior half flesh tinted at the sides and black- 

 ish in the middle. Expanse of wings oO mm. 



Yar. Paler than the typical form, rather smaller ; the prima- 

 ries with no blackish oval patch on the internal area; secondaries 

 and under surface snow-white ; primaries with the discoidal and 

 subcostal streaks ill-defined, no other markings ; secondaries 

 without the brown streaks ; venter Avithout the blackish patch. 

 Expanse of wings 29 mm. 



Ankafana. 



33. Dasychira 2'>umila, n. sp. 



$ Primaries above with the costal area snow-white, the 

 remainder of the wing chocolate-brown, interrupted by irregular 

 transverse white stripes ; two irregidarly sinuated black stripes 

 across the basal third and a third just beyond the cell, black ; 

 these stripes are formed nearly as in D. piidihimc/a ; a brown 

 >-Hhape marking at the end of the cell, external border white 

 with a slender brown Hue ; fringe white tipped with grey ; 

 secondaries cream coloured, the apical area irrorated with 

 greyish-brown; thorax white, the collar and head sprinkled 

 with t:hocolate-brown ; metathorax witli a large central blackish 

 patcii ; abdomen cream coloured ii-rorated with brown ; aatenna; 

 white with dark brown pectinations ; primaries below dark 

 smoky-grey, costal margin spotted beyond the middle with l^lack 



