62 AMPHIDASID.E. 



Chorodna erebusaria. (Plate CXV. fig. 9.) 

 Chorodna crebusaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxi. p. 314. n. 1 (I860). 



Wings above white, sparsely irrorated with blackish : primaries with a large oblong basi- 

 costal grey patch with reddish outer border, its extremity bounded by a black-edged white 

 ^-shaped line, which is immediately followed by an irregular black-edged red-brown patch at 

 the eud of the cell ; an ill-defined, very oblique, elbowed grey stripe beyond the middle, 

 partly touching a widely sinuous, partly undulated and black-edged white line, which bounds 

 the external area, the latter striated with grey towards the inner margin, but suffused with 

 bronzy olivaceous towards apex; an ill-defined submarginal stripe, sinuated and partly 

 blackish-bordered towards apex, but from near the third median branch to the external 

 angle nearly straight and partly confluent with a broad, white, external border : secondaries 

 with the submedian and external areas greyish; a large rounded black spot at the end of the 

 cell, from which to the middle of the abdominal margin is a slender oblique brown 

 line ; external area bounded internally by a dentate-sinuate, black-spotted, white stripe ; 

 a brownish olivaceous, angulatcd, submarginal band, diffused internally ; a marginal series 

 of curved black lines, that on the discoidal interspace being enlarged into a lunule : 

 thorax grey ; eyes dull red ; abdomen greyish white. Wings below with the markings greyer 

 and less defined than above : body below sordid greyish white. Expanse of wings 81 millini. 



Darjiliug (Hooker fy IAdd&rdale). 



A species exactly intermediate between the two preceding was obtained at Sarawak by 

 Mr. Wallace. 



HEMEROPHILA, Steph. 



Hemerophila virescens. (Plate CXVI. fig. 1.) 

 Hemerophila virescens, Butler, Ann. § Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 126. n. 30 (1880). 



Nearest to H. creataria, but the primaries with subangulatcd outer margin; upper 

 surface pale laky brown, clouded, striped, and spotted with sap-green : wings densely striated 

 with black; fringe ferruginous; black discoccllular lunules : primaries crossed at basal 

 third by an irregular angulated green stripe, and at apical third by a green-edged zigzag 

 black line; a diseal series of subcon fluent green crescents, the six uppermost intersecting an 

 abbreviated series of large black spots; a black marginal line interrupted at the veins: 

 secondaries crossed before the middle by an ill-defined black stripe, and beyond the middle by 

 an irregular series of pale reddish .spots partly defined with black internally ; a diseal series 

 of elongated black-edged green spots; a marginal series of black lunules: body laky 

 brown ; head and antennae brown ; back of palpi and collar black ; abdomen mottled with 

 blackish. Under surface sericeous laky brown: wings indistinctly striated with brown, a 



