20 NOCTUIU^. 



defined by white on outer side, incurved below costa, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 6, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, 

 excurved and minutely waved between those points ; a subterrninal 

 black spot in discal fold ; a terminal series of black points and 

 lunule at discal fold ; cilia intersected with brownish, with patch at 

 discal fold and black lunules at tips. Hind wing very pale green, 

 deeper at termen ; a fuscous postmedial band expanding into a patch 

 at discal fold ; some black points on termen ; cilia brownish white 

 at tips ; the underside white, the costal area striated with brown 

 and irrorated with a few black scales, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 diffused postmedial band from costa to vein 4. 



Bab. 8ikhim (Atkinson, Lidderdale, Mailer, Dudgeon), 4 ^,8 5, 

 type. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



3593. Canna malachitis. 



Telesilla malachitis, Oberth. Et. Ent.v. p. 80, pi. 3. f. 9 (1881); Hmpsn. 



Moths Inch li. p. 2114; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. 

 Canna splendens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 412 ; Butl. 111. Het. 13. M. vii. 



p. 59, pi. 128. f. 4. 



<$ . Head and tegulas white, tinged with bright apple-green ; 

 palpi dark red-brown, the tips of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; an- 

 tennae red-brown, the basal joint white, black at tip; patagia 

 rufous ; vertex of thorax white mixed with rufous ; pectus white, 

 the legs suffused with rufous, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 whitish, dorsally tinged with rufous, the crest on 4th segment 

 formed of black scales, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing 

 brilliant malachite-green, the base daiker green; subbasal line 

 black, defined by white on outer side, slightly incurved from costa 

 to vein 1, then angled outwards and rather diffused above inner 

 margin ; a medial pale rufous band, irrorated slightly with red- 

 brown aud defined by white lines, the inner edge with fine black 

 line between the white and rufous from costa to vein 1, aud the 

 outer side with black line towards costa, the inner edge very 

 obliquely excurved from costa to submedian fold, very slightly 

 angled outwards at median nervure, and produced as a fascia on 

 inner margin to near subbasal line, the outer edge oblique and 

 irregularly sinuous from costa to below vein 2, then erect ; the 

 orbicular represented by a green point defined by black on inner 

 edge of medial band, the reniform by an undefined white lunule : a 

 dark striga from costa on the medial band ; a brown point on costa 

 just beyond the band ; the costal edge white, with some brown points 

 towards apex ; the terminal area whitish to vein 6 and a white patch in 

 submedian interspace ; a terminal series of black points and a black- 

 brown spot below vein with a white lunule on it ; cilia white with 

 red-brown patches above and below middle. Hind wing white, faintly 

 tinged with green ; a diffused fuscous subterrninal patch, broad at 

 costa, narrowing to a point in submedian fold ; a teiminal scries of 



