elj::odes. 



357 



81(58. Elaeodes virescens. 



Frcmohia viirscens. Bail A. M. N. H. (5) \v. p. 243 (1879), J. 

 Euplcxia ovhroari/yra, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 727, $. 



S • Head and thorax greenish yellow mixed with red-hrown ; 

 tegula3 with a reddish brown band near tips, the patagia reddish 

 brown at extremities, the metathorax with reddish brown band ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the crests tipped with reddish brown. Fore 

 wing yellow tinged with green ; subbasal line silvery white defined 

 at sides by red-brown, waved, from costa to snbmedian fold, some 

 red-brown beyond it on costa and above vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 silvery white defined at sides by red-brown, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique to submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1, 

 a red-brown streak from it to postmedial line in svxbmedian fold ; 

 orbicular a small round silvery white annulus with red-brown 

 cenb-e ; reniform a minute silvery white lunule on a red-brown 

 ])atch which extends to the orbicular; postmedial line silvery 

 white defined on each side by red-brown forming two small spots 



Fig. 92. — El(Bodes virescens, cJ. \. 



at costa, a patch on its outer side above and below vein G and 

 patches on each side of it between veins 4 and 2, obli(|ue and 

 sinuous to discal fold, then incurved and waved ; subterminal line 

 formed by silvery white lunules defined on outer side by red-brown 

 marks and on inner side also below costa and veins 8 and 2, incurved 

 at vein 5 and bent inwards at vein 2 ; cilia cliequered red-brown 

 and white. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown ; the under- 

 side with brown discoidal lunule and postmedial reddish bar from 

 costa. 



2 . Hind wing uniform dark bi-own. 



llah. Madagascar, Antanararivo {Kiiigdon'), 1 S type, Betsileo 

 (Cowan), 1 (S . Exp. 3G millim. Type f $ ocliroar(jijra in Coll. 

 Mabille. 



8169. Elseodes acatharta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 1.) 



c? . Head and thorax pale dull olive-green mixed with grey and 

 brownish; anteim;e fuscous brown; palpi blackish above; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen bj'ownish gre\'. Fore wing pale 



