i84 GEOMETRID MOTHS 



45. EUPITHECIA DELOZONA Hp. 11. 



9 18 mm. 



Palpus nearly -2, first and second joints with projecting 

 scaling beneath, second joint with erect scales above, a small 

 projecting tuft over the moderate third joint. Head and body 

 pale gi'een, discolouring to yellowish. Fore tibia and tarsus 

 infu seated above, with pale spots at ends of joints. 



Fore wing with areole ample ; DC" slightly longer than DC^ ; 

 pale green, with slightly darker bands between subbasal and 

 antemedian lines and just beyond the postmedian ; basal 

 area purple costally ; lines fine, black, finely edged with 

 white (the subbasal and postmedian outwardly, the antemedian 

 inwardly) ; subbasal slightly curved anteriorly then almost 

 straight ; antemedial slightly oblique inward to M, curving to 

 become slightly oblique outward ; postmedian slightly incurved 

 between costa and R^ and between M^ and SM^ ; the entire 

 median area deep dull purple, traversed • by faint reddish 

 and dark lines ; fringe concolorous. Hind wing grey to beyond 

 middle, then pale gi'een. 



Both wings beneath nearly as fore wing above, the grey on 

 hind wing less pronounced. 



Mt. Murud, 6000--6500 feet, November. 



Near hiviridata Warr. (Nov. Zool., iii, p. 125, Khasia Hills), 

 termen of fore wing rather less oblique, hind wdng ampler, 

 green borders broader, that of hind wing brighter, lines rather 

 different in shape — postmedian less protuberant, etc. 



46. Rhinoprora eurymesa sp. n. 



19--21 mm. 



Face very pale green. Palpus almost 2^- ; coarsely sprinkled 

 with black except at tip. Vertex whitish. Antenna dark- 

 dotted above. Thorax above pale green. Abdomen slightly 

 elongate ; pale, with a shght dark belt on second tergite and 

 with the anal segments suffused with dark-grey. Fore leg 

 blackish, with pale spots at end of tarsal joints ; mid tibia and 

 tarsus blackish above, with pale spots at ends of joints and 

 at centre of tibia. 



Fore wing" pale bluish-green ; markings reddish mixed with 

 black ; basal patch small, its blackish boundary line nearly 

 vertical ; no subbasal band ; median area considerably broader 

 than in palpata Walk., at costal margin about 4 mm., at hind 

 . margin about 3 mm., its proximal line somewhat bent near 

 costa, then straightish, its distal (the postmedian) more 



