TiiALERA. — COMlBffiNA. 145 



GEOMETRIN^. 



Thalera acutissima, ll'Ik. (Plate CLXX. fig. 10.) 



Thalera acutissima, Wlk. Cat. xxii. p. 5!i6. 



Expanse IJ inch. 



Bluish grey-green ; frons chocolate. Fore wing with indistinct ante- and postmcdial 

 pale slightly oblique straight lines ; hind wing with the postmedial line and botli wings with 

 pale cilia. 



Thalera albomaculata. (Plate CLXX. fig. 19.) 



Expanse \'^ inch. 



Female. Allied to T. uniformis, Hmpsn. The shaft of antennae and vertex of head 

 white ; thorax and abdomen green. Wings bright green ; the costa of fore wing white ; a 

 postmedial series of small white spots on the nervules of both wings^ which on the fore 

 wing terminates in a large white blotch on the inner margin. Cilia fuscous, with white 

 spots at the nervules. Underside whitish. 



Thalassodes leucospilota, Moore. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. .3 (larva).) 



Thalassodes leuoospilota, Moore, Lep. Ceijl. iii. p. 427, pi. 194. fig. 4. 



Larva. Pale yellowish green, suffused with brownish purple above, forming anteriorly 

 an indistinct dorsal stripe. Legs and claspers dull pvu'ple. Head deeply bifid. 

 Feeds on Ficus and pupates between leaves loosely spun together. 



Comostola meritaria, JFlk. (Plate CLXX. fig. 6.) 

 Geometra meritaria, WUl. Cat. xxii. p. 522. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Head ochreous white; thorax and abdomen whitish, the former tinged with blue-green. 

 Wings blue-green, with an ochreous ringed chestnut blotch centred by silvery scales at end 

 of cell; a chestnut-and-silvery marginal line; cilia ochreous. Fore wing with chestnut 

 ante- and postmedial specks on inner margin ; the costa ochreous. Hind wing with three 

 postmedial chestnut specks. 



Comibcena biplagiata, Moore. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 18 (larva).) 



Comibcena biplagiata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 435. 



Larva. Uniform yellowish drab. The sides of each somite are produced into tieshy 

 processes, upon which the larva fastens small jneces of withered leaves and sticks as a 

 disguise. It rests with the anterior somites doubled underneath its body. 



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