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base of primaries ; the central belt of the ordinary irregularly sinuated and angular character, 

 edged on both sides with black, and on the primaries enclosing two blackish sinuated lines 

 and a black discocellular annulus, sprinkled with pearl-white scales; external border mottled 

 with black and spotted between the veins with pearl-white scales: abdomen greyish brown. 

 Under surface scriceons greyish white, crossed beyond the middle by a dentate-sinuate dusky 

 line; small blackish discocellular spots; a slender marginal line and the tips of the fringe 

 dark brown: primaries darker than secondaries and mottled with grey. Expanse of wings 

 51 millim. 



Darjiliug {Atkinson £f Lidderdale) . 



ARGIDAVA, Walk. 



Argidava punctata. (Plate CXVII. fig. 1.) 

 Argidava punctata, Butler, Ann. <$• Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 128. n. 35 ( 1880). 



Sordid white : primaries crossed by six oblique series of black dots, the second series 

 consisting of four, of which the second is larger and forms the discoidal stigma or disco- 

 cellular spot; the last series marginal. Under surface creamy white, sericeous; all the 

 wings with a grey discocellular spot, a dentate-sinuate discal line, and a submarginal series of 

 indistinct spots ; primaries with a marginal series of blackish dots, with golden-yellow costal 

 margin and apex : legs and venter pale testaceous. Expanse of wings 30 millim. 



Darjiliug (Lidderdale). 



Allied to A. maculata. 



GEOMETRID.E. 



TANAORHINUS, Butl. 



Tanaorhinus viridiluteatus. (Plate CXVII. fig. 2.) 



Gcometra viridiluteata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. xxii. p. 5L5. n. 18 (1SG1). 



Dull olive-green : wings with a submarginal irregular series of whitish spots : primaries 

 crossed just before the middle by a rather broad belt outlined in whitish, the margins of this 

 belt are arched so as to form a large almost oval area from the costa to the median vein, but 

 from this vein to the inner margin they are crenulated, the upper half of the belt is densely 

 irrorated with bluish-white scales and encloses a black ;-shaped character at the end of the cell : 

 secondaries crossed before the middle by a slightly irregular whitish line ; costa white: body above 

 green, face brownish. Primaries below pale pea-green, with the costa and veins cadmium- 



