CHLOEPHORID^. I7S 



Noctucc ; and more recently is usually included in the present 

 group. There are only seven or eight European species in 

 the family, the majority of which, including our own, are of a 

 bright green colour. Exotic species are more numerous, and 

 include many pink and green, pink, and crimson species, but 

 the family so extended remains very isolated and of doubtful 

 position. 



Genus 1. HALIAS. 



Antennas simple ; fore wings broad and bell-shaped but 

 somewhat pointed ; thorax and abdomen stout. 



1. H. prasinana, Z.— Expanse 1^ to H inch. Fore wings 

 rather bell-shaped, bright green with three oblique silvery 

 cross-lines ; hind wings yellowish or white. 



Antennae rather thick, cylindrical, thread-like, rather 

 downy, bright red ; palpi and legs bright red ; head green, 

 whitish at the back ; thorax broad, pea-green, with a silvery 

 white longitudinal stripe down each shoulder, and one down 

 the centre ; abdomen of the male yellowish green, of the 

 female greenish white. Fore wings with the costa arched at 

 the base, thence straight ; dorsal margin similarly formed, 

 apex pointed, hind margin straight to near the anal angle 

 where it is rounded off ; bright pea-green, with three oblique, 

 parallel, silvery-white transverse stripes edged with deeper 

 green, the third of which runs into the apex ; between the 

 first and second of these is usually a broad whitish shade ; 

 costal and dorsal margins narrowly white, edged, in the case 

 of the male, with crimson ; cilia silvery-white edged with 

 crimson, most broadly and brightly so in the male ; hind 

 wings short and rather small, rounded, in the male pale 

 yellowish with a greenish tinge and the cilia reddish-yellow, in 

 the female clear shining white. 



Under side of the fore wings in the male pale green, with 

 the dorsal margin broadly white and the cilia red ; hind wings 

 pale-greenish or yellowish ; of the female, fore wings very 



