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to inaer margia, its outer edge escurved below middle. Hind wing 

 orange, with broad terminal black band narrowing to tornus. 



Hah. Madagascar, Fianarantsoa (Oowan), 2 5 , type. E,vp. 

 38 millim. 



Genus CHRY30RABDIA. „ 



Type. 



Chrysorabiia, Butl. Trans. Enfc. Soc. 1877, p. 357 " viridaia. 



Proboscis present ; palpi obliquely upturned, extending to just beyond frons; 

 antenna of mile ciliated; tibiiC with the spurs moderate; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair. Fore wiug long and nari'ow ; vein 2 from before middle of 

 cell, curved at base ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 abseut ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomo-iiug with 7,8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wiug with 

 vein 2 from midillo of cell; 3,4 stalkel or from cell ; .5 absent ; the disco- 

 cellulars almo?t entirely aborted aud the cell open, a recurrent vein in cell 

 from angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 from before middle of 

 cell. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with an oblique patch of androconia on vein 1 

 almost met by an oblique streali from end of cell ; hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Thorax black viridata. 



B. Thorax yellow bivitta. 



377. Chrysorabiia viridata. 



Litkosia viridata, Wlk. xxxi. 225 (1SG4) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 19, pi. 2. 



f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 74 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. 

 Gnophria strigata, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 353 (1872). 



(S . Head and tegute yellow ; palpi, frons, and antenna5 black ; 



patagia yellow edged witb black ; 

 thorax black ; abdomen yellow, the 

 dorsum greyish. Fore wing yel- 

 low, Ihe costa, a broad fascia below 

 costa expanding towards termeu, 

 and another on vein 1 narrow at 

 base and narrowing to ternien, 

 Fig. 101. blackish with metallic green on 



Chrysorabdia viridata, 5 . \. them at base and beyond the 

 (From Moths Ind. vol. li.) oblique fuscous streaks of andro- 



conia. Hind wing pale yellow. 



5 . Anal tuft blackish at base. Fore wing with a greenish-black 

 fascia on costa narrowing to a point before apex, and another from 

 base of inner margin to middle of termen. 



Hah. SiKHiM ( W. S. AtJcinfton, Lidderdah), 4 S , G ? . type ; 

 Assam, Sylhet, Exp., S 40-42, $ 42-52 millim. 



378. Chrysorabdia bivitta. (Plate XXIII. fig. 11.) 



Litkosia bivitta, Wlk. vii. 1682 (ISofi) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 74 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. 

 lAthosa disjuncta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 797 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. 



S • Tale orange-yellow ; palpi at tips, frons, and antenna-. 



