GEOMETRID,E. 377 



GENUS NOBILIA. Walker: xxiv. 1098 (1862). 



2972. Nobilia turbata. 



Nobilia turbata. Walker : xxiv. 1098. 



Moore : P. Z. S., Lond., 1867, p. 650. 



- C. and S. : Cat. Moths of India, iv. 546. 3685 (1888). 

 Somatina turbata. Hampson : Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, iii. p. 465 (1895). 



Type. Sarawak, Borneo, in B. M. 



a. Sarawak (Wallace). b. Singapore. c. India (3). 



FAMILY GEOMETRIDJE. 



GENUS DYSPHANIA. Hiibn. : Verz., p. 175 (1816). 



Euschema. Hiibn. : 1. c. 



Hazis. Boisd.: Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, ii. Lep., p. 203 (1832). 

 Heleona. Swainson : Zool. 111., 2nd ser., pi. 116 (1833). 



2973. Dysphania numana. 



Phalana numana. Cram.: Pap. Exot., iii. p. 59, pi. 227, f. A; pi. 228, 

 f. A (1782). 



Dysphania numana. Walker: ii. 342 (1854). 



Dysphania numenia. Hiibn. : 1. c. 



Hazis numanaria. Guen. : Phal., ii. p. 190 (1857). 



Euschema numanaria. Rob.: Tijd. voor Ent, xxxiv. p. 332 (1891). 

 Pag. : Abh. Senck. Ges., 1897, p. 458. 



Euschema helenetta. White : MS. Walker, vii. 1667 ( l8 56). 

 Type (helenetta). Ceram, in B. M. 

 a. Goram, Ceram (Wallace). 



2974. Dysphania magnifica. nov. 



(j 9 Antennas black, palpi ocreous beneath, above and the whole of 

 the last joint black ; head and fore-part of thorax bright ochreous, 

 thorax dark blue with a large ochreous central spot behind, abdomen 

 ochreous with dark blue segmental bands, the first three broad, the 

 remainder narrow ; wings dark blue, spots bluish white and semi- 

 hyaline ; fore-wings with a streak at the base, and three macular 

 transverse bands, central, discal, and sub-apical ; hind-wings with 

 two similar bands, sub-basal and central ; also a sub-marginal bright 

 ochreous complete band of connected lunules ; underside, wings as 

 above, body ochreous, with basal portions of thorax and abdomen 

 deep black, legs black, streaked with ochreous. 



Expanse of wings, 4 inches. 

 a. Queensland (types 6 9) (Bowen). b. Queensland. 



2975. Dysphania chalybeata. 



Dysphania chalybeata. Butler : Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xviii. p. 127 (1876). 

 Type. Cape York, in B. M. 

 a. Melville Island. b. Cape York. 



