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1770. Ancara glaucochlora, n. sp. 



c? . Head and collar pale reddish ; thorax pale green ; abdomen 

 pale red, with large dorsal green tufts. Fore wing whitish, irro- 

 rated with fuscous ; the basal and medial areas pale silverj green ; 

 two indistinct subbasal lines, the outer excurved and nearly 

 joining the curved antemedial line at inner margin ; a diffused 

 medial oblique line ; very irregular dentate postmedial and sub- 

 marginal lines. Hind wing pale fuscous, yellowish at base ; an 

 indistinct cell-spot and whitish medial line. Underside dirty 

 ochreous, with three fuscous bands on each wing, the outer one 

 broad. 



Hob. Sikhim (Knyvett). Exp. 48 millim. Type in coll. Knyvett. 



Genus MAGUSA. 



Magusa, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 762 (1857). 

 Sasunaga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881. p. 342. 



Type, M. strigifera, Wlk., from the Amazons. 



liange. S. America ; India and Ceylon. 



Differs from Euplexia in the third joint of palpi reaching above 

 vertex of head ; the dorsal tufts of abdomen slight ; fore wing very 

 long and narrow, the apex rounded, the outer margin oblique. 



1771. Magusa tenebrosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 59; C. $ S. 



no. 2044. 



Dark and red-brown or black and grey. Fore wing with slight 

 streaks in the interspaces ; the transverse lines almost obsolete ; 

 the orbicular small, circular, and usually prominent ; reniform 

 almost obsolete ; a dark patch on costa before apex ; the apical 



Fig. 128.: Magusa tenebrosa, 



and basal inner areas and the outer angle often grey or red-brown. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hab. Simla; Sikhim; Poona; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 36-42 

 millim. 



