04 BOARMIID-E. 



the primaries, with reddish internal and white external margins; discocellulars blackish ; a 

 black undulated marginal line ; an interrupted undulated white submarginal line : centre of 

 thorax and dorsal abdominal tufts tinted with pink, each tuft placed in the centre of a slender, 

 blackish, fl- shaped marking. Under surface sericeous creamy white ; wings crossed by a 

 broad, irregular, yellowish-edged, dark brown discal belt : primaries with a diffused streak 

 connecting the belt with the outer margin upon the radial interspaces ; an oblique black 

 discocellular litura. Expanse of wings 52 millim. 

 Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



Hypochronia muscicoloraria. (Plate CXVI. fig. 4.) 

 Hypochroma muscicoloraria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Hct. sxvi. p. 1543 (1802). 



Pale pea-grccn : wings crossed beyond the middle by a sinuous dentated darker green 

 line, commencing with a brownish spot on costa of primaries, these wings also with a second 

 line just before the basal third ; a dark discocellular lunule and a pale sinuated submarginal 

 stripe on all the wings: under surface yellowish cream-colour, all the wings with a 

 black spot at the end of the cell and a broad black-brown discal belt. Expanse of wings 

 53 millim. 



Darjiling [Lidderdale, SfC.). 



The colours ("pale olive-green, whitish beneath ") of Walker's description arc due to 

 fading : the colouring of the upper surface gradually changes until it becomes ochraceous in 

 all delicately coloured green Geometrites. 



EOARMIA, Treit. 



Boarinia phnnalis. (Plate CXVI. fig. 5.) 

 Boarmia plumalis, Butler, Ann. #■ Mag. Nat. Hint. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 126. n. :!1 (1880). 



Whity brown, mottled with smoky brown ; two widely sinuated central black-brown 

 lines, the outer one dentate-sinuate, and followed by a similar but less defined line or stripe ; 

 an undulated white submarginal stripe, bounded internally, towards costa of primaries and 

 anal angle of secondaries, by large blackish spots; a marginal series of black lunulcs : 

 primaries with a subbasal arched blackish line; two ill-defined parallel blackish stripes at 

 basal fourth : antennae widely plumose, the pectinations being extremely long and curved 

 outwards; back of collar and posterior half of abdomen black, anus testaceous. Under 

 surface whity brown; wings with blackish discocellular lunulcs, a dusky postraedian undu- 

 lated line, and traces of a dusky submarginal line; front of pectus brownish. Expanse of 

 h tngs 70 millim. 



Parjiling [Lidderdale 



