CHLOEOCLYST1S. 391 



Calluga, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 480 (1887). 

 Ardouis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 269 (1888). 

 Axinoptera, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 154 (1893). 

 Ceratorhynchus, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 154. 



Type, C. coronata, Hiibn., from Europe. 



lianye. Palaearctic region ; Himalayas ; Assam ; Burma ; Nil- 

 giris ; Ceylon ; Australia ; New Zealand. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint thickly scaled and reaching beyond the 

 sharp frontal tuft, the 3rd joint prominent ; antennae of male 

 annulated ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs * ; abdomen with 

 slight dorsal crests. Fore wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 

 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6 from upper angle ; 10, 11 stalked, 

 10 anastomosing with 7, 8, 9 to form the large areolef, and 11 

 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with vein 5 from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 7 to beyond 

 middle of cell. 



SECT. I. (Liridava). Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching far beyond 

 the frontal tuft; hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. 



A. Hind wing without tufts or fovea beloiu lower angle of cell. 



3756. Chloroclystis palpata, Wlk. Cat. xxv, p. 1404; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 206, fig. 6 ; C. Sf S. no. 3775. 

 Lobophora Julia, Butl. 111. Het. iii, p. 53, pi. 54, fig. 4. 

 Lobophora excisa, Butl. III. Het. iii, p. 52, pi. 53, tig. 11. 

 Eupithecia variegata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 479, pi. 206, fig. 5 ; 



C. $ S. no. 3782. 

 Eupithecia virescens, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 479, pi. 206, fig. 4 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 3783. 



Grass-green, irrorated with black and with more or less vinous- 

 red suffusion; abdomen with the 2nd segment blackish. Eore 

 wing with the veins speckled with black ; a subbasal line ; an ante- 

 medial vinous and black band, with a line beyond it ; the medial area 

 vinous and black, with a black cell-spot and edged by black lines, 

 the outer edge angled at veins 6 and 4 and with white between those 

 points ; a postmedial series of black specks ; a submarginal vinous 

 band with a black line on it and black inner edge, outwardly edged 

 by a crenulate white line ; cilia green and black. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous or whitish, with traces of waved lines on outer area. 



Many specimens are almost entirely suffused with vinous, others 

 have the medial area of fore wing black. 



Hob. Japan; Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Mlgiris ; Ceylon. E^p.24: 

 millim. 



3757. Chloroclystis intentata, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1676. 



cJ. Green (fading to ochreous), irrorated with black. Tore 

 wing with a slightly curved black subbasal line with two faint 

 lines between it and the medial area, which is thickly irrorated 

 with black, edged by black lines, and has three minutely waved 



* Except in male of costalis. t Except in male of subcostalis. 



