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Face ami palpi whitish below, dark brown above ; vertex, thorax, and 

 abdomen bine greeu ; metathorax with a large brown blotch ; middle segments 

 of abdomen with two pairs of brown spots ; antennae of $ with the shaft 

 greenish, thj pectinations brown; of ? green at base, tlieu reddish; legs white; 

 forelegs with femora reddish, tibiae olive-green, in the 6 with a reddish pencil 

 of hairs beneath. 



Expanse of wings : c?,38mm. ; ? , 40 mm. 



1 t?, 1 ?. 



Veins 6, 7, and 3, 4 of hiudwing stalked. 



Pyrrhaspis gen. nov. 



Foreiving : triangular, costa straight ; hindmargiu faintly curved, nearly 

 vertical. 



llimlwimj : with inner margin prolonged, hindmargin curved, anal angle 

 prominent. 



Antennae of c? bipectinate, apical half or third simple ; of ? simple ; palpi 

 obliqnely porrect upwards ; third segment longer in ? than S ; tongue and 

 frenulum present ; hindtibiae of c? with four spurs and a process. 



Nenration : as in Thalassodes Gueu. 



Type : Pijrrhaspis coerulea spec. nov. 



38. Pyrrhaspis coerulea spec. nov. 



Foreicinff : pale blue-green ; costa ochreous yellow ; lines marked by white 

 spots on the veins ; first close to base, with spots on median and submedian only ; 

 outer from four-fifths of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, sinuous, the spot on 

 vein 4 being displaced outwards ; fringe blue-green ; cell-spot slightly darker. 



Hiudwing : without inner line of spots. 



Underside uniform bluish white ; fringe unspotted. 



Face and paljii red-brown above, snow-white in lower half ; the brown and 

 white of the face divided by a green line ; fillet and antennal shaft white ; 

 pectinations bronzy yellow ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen blue-green ; dorsum 

 with silvery white sjjots, that on second segment large, the upper half pink ; legs 

 ochreous white ; forelegs fuscous-tinged. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 (J. 



The (S antennae have only the apical third simple. 



39. Pyrrhaspis pimctifimbria spec. nov. 



Forewimj : apple-green, with the costa and lines almost the same as in 

 coerHlea,])ui\i lines with the white spot on vein 1 continued as a blotch to inner 

 margin ; the spots of the outer line less stroijgly sinuous, that on vein 4 being 

 scarcely displaced; fringe spotted with dark at the vein-ends below ajiex, sometimes 

 almost obsoletely. 



llindiviHg : like Ibrewiiigs, without basal line, the marginal spots more 

 distinct. 



Underside whitish green ; the fringe of both wings strongly chequered with 

 purplish beyond the dark marginal spots. 



I'alpi red above, white below ; face bright green with a red bar at top ; fillet 



