462 GEOMETIUD*;. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male bipectinated, with stiff 

 branches, the apex simple. 



3976. Problepsis deliaria, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 13 ; C. fy S. no. 1259. 

 Problepsis appollinaria, Butl. 111. Het. vii, p. 7 (nee Guen.}. 



Nearly pure white ; sides of palpi and vertex of head black ; 

 abdomen tinged with fuscous. Fore wing with the costa fuscous ; 

 a large olive oval ocellus at end of cell, with a ring of raised silver 

 scales on it, the centre grey, and two black specks below the 

 centre ; below the ocellus is a silver- ringed fulvous spot ; a silver 

 fascia on inner margin ; hind wing with an elongate oval fuscous 

 mark on discocellulars and below cell, with a ring of silver scales 

 on it ; a silver fascia on inner margin ; both wings with waved and 

 curved fuscous postmedial band, with a more prominent maculate 

 band beyond it, and a series of spots just inside the margin ; a 

 marginal fuscous line and a line through the cilia. 



The Kulu form has the edges of the ocellus of both wings 

 fulvous, the ocellus on fore wing being much rounder. 



ffab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 46 millim. 



3977. Problepsis delphiaria, Guen. Phal. ii, p. 14 ; C. $ 8. no. 1260. 

 Problepsis vulgaris, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 43, pi. 125, fig. 2. 

 Argyris ocellata, C. $ S. no. 1263 (nee Friv.). 



Differs from deliaria in the ocellus of fore wing having black 



on its outer ring, especially 

 on the inner side ; the spot 

 below it darker ; no silver 

 fascia on inner margin of 

 either wing, but a few scales 

 on fore wing and a medial 

 - , spot on hind wing ; the post- 

 medial curved band fulvous. 



Hob. Hongkong ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp., 

 cJ 34, $ 40 millim. 



3978. Problepsis cinerea, Butl P. Z. S. 1886, p. 387, pi. 35, fig. 8. 



Pale ashy brown ; head blackish. Fore wing with some fuscous 

 basal marks ; an antemedial line angled below cell ; a very large 

 brown discal ocellus, with fuscous outer ring, silver inner ring, 

 whitish centre, and two black marks with silver scales on them 

 below the centre ; some fuscous marks below the ocellus ; hind 

 wing with a similar ocellus extending to inner margin, but without 

 the black marks below centre ; both wings with a slightly curved 

 postmedial line angled below the costa of fore wing, with a series 

 of spots beyond it, a line beyond that, and a marginal line. 



Hob. Campbellpur. Exp. 36 millim. 



