THALERA .—COM] B.ENA. 7 1 



Nearly allied to T. depulsata from the Celebes and T. dissita from Canara ; it can readily 

 be distinguished from the latter by its bright green instead of rufous-brown face. T. dissita 

 appears to be identical with T. quadraria from Ceylon ; but the two descriptions were placed 

 under different genera, the former under Geometra, the latter under Thalassodes, 



THALERA, Hiibn. 



Thalera textilis. (Plate CXVII. fig. 10.) 

 Thalera textilis, Butler, Ann. de Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 219. n. 46 ( L880). 



Bright emerald-green, mottled, particularly on the veins, with pearly white; a sub- 

 marginal chain-like belt of the same colour enclosing a series of green lunules ; a marginal 

 series of white and sulphur-yellow diamond-shaped spots, which extend into the fringe; 

 fringe tipped with grey: primaries with grey-mottled chalky-white costal border; aw lute- 

 edged green lunule at the end of the cell : secondaries with the basal half of abdominal fringe 

 white: body mottled with white, abdomen with a dorsal series of white spots. Under surface 

 white: wings glossy, opaline, veins dead wdiite ; fringe greenish, spotted with testaceous, 

 tipped with grey : primaries with blackish-speckled white costal border. Expanse of wings 

 34 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



This species seems allied to T. divapala of Ceylon and the male of T.pieroides from 

 Australia, both of which were incorrectly referred to the genus Comibeena. The male of 

 T.pieroides is now known to be the " Thalassodes" scitissimaria of Walker's Catalogue. It 

 will be interesting to discover the female of T. textilis, in order to see whether, as in the 

 Australian species, it is entirely different in coloration from the male. 



COMIB^NA, Hiibn. 



Cornitena partita. (Plate CXVII. fig. 11 .) 



Comibama partita, Walker, Cut. Lep. Hit. xxii. p. 573. no. 11 (1861). 

 Var. Comibasna felioitata, Walker, I.e. p. 570. n. l';i (1861). 



Bright grass-green: primaries white at base, crossed just before the basal third by a 

 slender angular white line; a second more irregular and partly zigzag white line beyond the 

 middle ; these two lines connected by a longitudinal white line on the interno-median inter- 

 space; a small white-edged blackish dot at the end of the cell ; disk partly irrorated witli 

 white and crossed by white veins ; an oval flesh-tinted patch close to external angle, bounded 

 internally by the discallinc, and externally by an irregularly sinuous submarginal white stripe ; 

 a brownish spot at external angle; outer margin narrowly white, spotted here and there with 

 black ; fringe brownish at external angle, and tipped throughout with silvery greyish : 

 secondaries crossed beyond the middle by a subangulated arched white line, beyond which the 



