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This species chiefly differs from T. confuciaria of China and Japan in the more elegantly 

 falcate form of its primaries : the colours of all these species as given in Walker's descriptions 

 arc due to fading. 



LOXOCHILA, Bull. 



Loxoehila smaragdus. (Plate CXVII. fig. 5.) 



Tanaorhinus smaragdus, Butler, Ann. \ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 128. n. '■>*'< i 1 s80). 

 Loxoehila smaragdus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 615. 



Bright green, above sea-green, wings with snow-white fringe; a disca] slightly irregular 

 series of snow-white spots; an olive-green stripe, bordered externally with white, slightly 

 undulated in the primaries just beyond the middle: primaries with a second angular line, 

 edged internally with white at basal fourth; an olive-green discocellular dot. Body in the 

 type ochreous, with the exception of the collai - , a series of lateral spots on the abdomen, and 

 the anal tuft; two or three dorsal clots and the sides of the abdomen snow-white ; antenna- 

 with ferruginous pectinations. Wings below pale emerald-green, with an indistinct discal 

 scries of sap-green spots : primaries also with a straight postmedian stripe of the same 

 colour; veins white; fringe sap-green tipped with white: body white, yellowish in front. 

 Expanse of wings 61 millim. 



N.E. Himalayas (Lidderdale). 



GEOMETRA, Gue'n. 



Geometra grata. (Plate CXVII. fig. 6.) 

 Geometra grata, Butler, Ann. <$• Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 129. n. 87 (1880). 



Emerald-green ; wings sparsely striated with golden orange : primaries with the costal 

 margin pinky whitish, crossed by dark brown strise and dots; two widely separated, inarched, 

 subparallel golden-orange lines, the inner one distinctly irregular, the outer one very slightly 

 so ; fringe tipped with white : secondaries with the costal border, abdominal margin, and t he 

 outer half of the fringe upon the outer margin snow-white; a transverse, diffused, golden- 

 orange stripe just before the middle : palpi, antennae, and front of collar pinky white ; 

 abdomen creamy white, greenish at base. Under surface sericeous white, the wings showing 

 a tint of green, owing to the transparency of their texture; costal border creamy; the 

 numerous striae of the upper surface indistinctly visible; a curved greyish line just beyond 

 the middle; minute blackish discocellular dots: pectus green in front. Expanse of wings 

 46 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



Nearest to G. dentisignata of Moore. 



