104 GEOMETEID.^. 



au arched postmedian series of blackish dots on the veins, and a diffused greyish submarginal 

 hand ; costa of primaries oehraceous. Expanse of wings 47 millim. 

 Dharmsala. 



GEOMETRID^. 



LOXOCHILA, Butl. 



Loxochila variegata. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 3.) 



Emerald-green, streaked and banded with pale pinky brown with whitish edges : the 

 primaiies with two bands diverging on the costa : the secondaries with a broad belt occupying 

 the greater part of the outer half of the wing ; fringes alternately brownish and silvery white ; 

 costa and apex of primaries clear golden yellow varied with purplish brown ; costa of secondaries 

 silvery white ; palpi rufous brown ; vertex of head whitish ; antenna; yellow; abdomen with 

 white edges to the segments. Under surface of wings with the markings of the upper surface 

 white, partly lost in the white colouring of the basal area ; external areas pea-green ; a brown- 

 dotted dusky denticulated discal line across the wings ; costa and apex of primaries nearly as 

 above ; basal area of wings opaline : body pearl-white. Expanse of wings, J 40 millim., 

 $ 51 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



NEMORIA, lliibn* 



Nemoria gracilis. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 4.) 



Pale emerald-green; an indistinct sinuous narrow silvery-white line across the disc of the 

 wings almost as in N. vlridata; a second less distinct line just before the middle: costa of 

 primaries and basal half of fringe on all the wings pale creamy yellow ; outer half of fringe 

 silvery white : vertex of head white, the antennae slightly yellowish; face, anterior coxa;, and 

 inner side of anterior tibiae and tarsi reddish testaceous ; inner side of other tarsi shining oehre- 

 ous. Wings with a slender golden-ochreous marginal line. Expanse of wings 22-24 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



The lines across the upper surface of the wings in this species are so indistinct, but more 

 especially the iinicr line, that they might easily be overlooked in worn or faded specimens. 



Nemoria gelida. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 5.) 



Si!\eiy whitish, densely irrorated with emerald -green ; fringes tipped with wliite : 

 luinKuies with the base of the costa and two stripes, dividing the wing into three equal parts, 



* This genus is said to Lave pectinated or ciliated antenna! in the male; in A', viridata and allies 

 the antenniE are simple. 



