110 GEOMETEID.i:. 



Thalera unifascia. (Plate CLI. fig. ".) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Mah. Apex of fore wing acute ; outer margin nearly straight ; outer margin of hind 

 wing slightly angled, but with no tail. Grass-green in colour ; the costa of fore wing ochreous 

 brown ; both wings crossed by a darker waved and indistinct postmedial band ; an indistinct 

 darker line at end of cell of hind wing. Underside : fore wing pale green, except the area 

 near the inner margin, which is greenish white, as also the hind wing. 



Thalera uniformis. (Plate CL. fig. 11.) 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Male. Antennse pectinated, the shaft white : apex of fore wing somewhat acute ; outer 

 margin nearly straight ; outer margin of hind wing slightly angled, but with no tail. Blue- 

 green in colour ; a series of postmedial white specks on the nervules. Underside paler. 

 Abdomen reddish brown except near base. 



Allied to T. [Geometra) dicissa, which is larger, paler, and without the postmedial series of 

 white specks. • 



Zamarada excisa. 



Zamarada translucida, 5 , Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 432, pi. 197. f. 2 {iiec Walker). 



Expanse 1;^ inch. 



Female. Allied to Z. translucida, Walker, from which it differs in having a square inden- 

 tation in the exterior border of both wings from first to third median nervules, which extends 

 nearly to the outer margin, while in Z. translucida in both sexes the inner margin of the 

 border is much more regular. 



Eucrostis smaragdus. (Plate CLI. fig. 15.) 



Expanse ^^ inch. 



Male. Antennae heavily pectinated. Emerald-green in colour. Fore wing : costa white 

 with a pink line below it, expanding into two pink-ringed white spots at one third and two 

 thirds from base ; a similar spot at middle of inner margin, with a small white one above it 

 at origin of first median nervule having traces of a pink edge ; a pink -ringed white spot on 

 third median nervule ; small white ones with traces of pink on the nervules above and below 

 it : outer margin of both wings white, bounded inwardly by a dark lunulate line, expanding 

 into pink -ringed white spots at outer angle of fore wing, third median nervule, and anal angle 

 of hind wing. Cilia pink at origin, bufl" at tips. Underside white, green towards costa of 

 fore wing. 



Allied to E. disparata, which is without the spots and has a band across both wings. 



