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and auteimal shaft wliite ; pectinations rufous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen green ; 

 dorsal spots as in coerulea. 



Expanse of wings : 37 mm. 



2 Si, 1 ?. 



The cj antennae have the apical halj' simple. 



40. Pyrrhorachis viridula spec. nov. 



Fo/-ewinff : delicate green ; costa reddish, black-speckled, the inner edge 

 yellow ; hindmargin with a row of contignons black-speckled purple-red hinnles, 

 preceded by a yellow line with silvery white specks between the lunules, and 

 followed by an orange marginal Hue, with specks of black scales at the vein-ends ; 

 fringe orange and black. 



Hindioing : with similar marginal border, the silvery spots between lunules 

 larger. 



Underside paler, with the fringes and costa of forewiug reddish. 



Face and palpi bright red above, pale below ; vertex bright red ; fillet aud 

 antennae white ; shoulders and jiatagia green ; thorax and abdomen deep red with 

 black speckles ; a pale line on first two dorsal segments ; abdomen at sides iind 

 beneath ochreous ; forelegs reddish. 



Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 



1 <?. 



Distinguished from F. deliciosa Warr., which it otherwise closely resembles, by 

 the green, not blue, ground-colonr. 



41. Rhomborista inquinata spec. nov. 



Forewing : apple-green, rather thinly scaled ; costa with fine short dark brown 

 striae on an ochreous ground ; lines dark purplish brown, more or less interrupted 

 and indistinct ; first from oue-fonrth of costa to one-third of inner margin, lunulate- 

 dentate, forming deej) lunules outwards, two above and two below the median vein, 

 the teeth running far in towards base and marked with a brown and white dash on 

 the three veins, the line really being double with a pale ochreous centre ; cell-spot 

 dark brown, often with another brown spot above it ; outer line at three-fourths, 

 also double, the lunules pointing inwards aud the teeth, marked light aud dark, 

 much nearer margin, forming a submarginal row of dashes, the top three beneath 

 costa often becoming, large spots ; towards costa and between the two lines a lot 

 of brown transverse striae ; a row of marginal brown spots at end of veins ; fringe 

 green with reddish mottlings. 



Ilindwinfi : with the inner line single, the outer shown only by the submarginal 

 line of points, the lunules being dark green and obscure, and marked by a dark spot 

 on inner margin and a reddish one below vein u ; marginal dots as in forewings, 

 that at vein 4 large ; an oblong dark blotch at anal angle ; extreme base of wiug 

 white. 



Underside pearly whitish green ; costal region of forewing tinged with pale 

 green, the costal edge white with brown flecks. 



I'alpi whitish, tinged above wiLli red-brown ; face green, brown above, some- 

 times wholly brown ; vertex, thorax, aud abdomen green, the last with white dorsal 

 spots; a spot on basal segment and another on metathorax brown; antennae 



