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outer margin ; the costa near apex, a short dash beyond the top of the reniform spot, two 

 subapical streaks, and an apical dash blackish brown : thorax reddish brown, greyish in the 

 middle. Primaries and pectus on the under surface pale pinky brown : secondaries and venter 

 stramineous, the latter darker than the wings. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 

 Darjiliug {Lidderdale) . 



NYCTEOLID^l. 



EARIAS, Herr.-Sch. 



Earias frondosana. (Plate CV. fig. 1.) 

 Earias? frondosana, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxvii. p. 204. n. 5 (1863). 



Primaries above brilliant sericeous grass-green, crossed iu the middle by two subparallel 

 arched stripes of slightly darker green ; a third abbreviated stripe near to outer margin 

 towards the external angle : secondaries pearly greyish white, slightly brownish towards outer 

 margin and at base of fringe ; remainder of fringe, costa, and abdominal border pure white : 

 thorax green; abdomen whity brown. Under surface silvery white; costa and external area 

 of primaries and outer margin of secondaries suffused with cupreous ; fringe of primaries 

 greenish. Expanse of wings 21 millim. 



North India. 



TYANA, Walk. 



Tyana callichlora. (Plate CV. figs. 2 & 3.) 

 $ . Tyana callichlora, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 177*5 (1866). 



3 . Primaries above emerald-green, reticulated with whitish ; base snow-white, edged 

 externally with dark blood-red ; margin of costa towards the base of the same colour ; costal 

 border and inner margin yellow ; a dark blood-red spot at origin of first median branch ; 

 a marginal series of six elongated snow-white spots, edged internally with dark blood-red ; 

 fringe yellow, rosy at base : secondaries sordid white, clearer at the borders : head snow- 

 white, with a red-brown band between the antenna;, which are dull rose-red witli white 

 edges to the joints; collar snow-white, with a red-brown line on each side in front; tegulae 

 snow-white, speckled behind with red-brown ; thorax green, with a red-brown-edged white 

 spot on each side at the back; abdomen whity brown. Under surface pure white. Expanse 

 of \\ ings 10 millim. 



$ . Chiefly differs from the male in having a broad internally undulated sienna-red or 

 chocolate-coloured external border, with yellow inner edge on the primaries, and in its larger 

 and snow-white secondaries and abdomen. Expanse of wings 39-40 millim. 



Darjiling {Atkinson &; Lidderdale). 



