126 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Species of 



Boarmiidse. 



30. Hemerophila virescens, sp. n. 



Nearest to H. creataria, but the primaries with subangulated 

 outer margin ; upper surface pale laky brown, clouded, striped, 

 and spotted with sap-green; wings densely striated with 

 black ; fringe ferruginous ; black discocellular lunules : pri- 

 maries crossed at basal third by an irregularly angulated green 

 stripe, and at apical third by a green-edged zigzag black line ; 

 a discal series of subconfluent green crescents, the six upper- 

 most ones intersecting an abbreviated series of large black 

 spots ; a black marginal line interrupted at the veins : secon- 

 daries crossed before the middle. by an ill-defined black stripe, 

 and beyond the middle by an irregular series of pale reddish 

 spots partly defined with black internally ; a discal series of 

 elongated black-edged green spots ; a marginal series of black 

 lunules : body laky brown ; back of palpi, head, and collar 

 black ; abdomen mottled with blackish. Under surface serice- 

 ous laky brown: wings indistinctly striated with darker brown, 

 a spot at the end of each cell ; primaries with a belt beyond the 

 middle and a patch at apex formed of cream-coloured stria- 

 tions ; secondaries with a creamy apical patch, crossed by a 

 sinuated brown submarginal line. Expanse of wings 3 inches 

 3-6 lines. 



Darjiling [Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



31. Boarmia jplnmaliS) sp. n. 



Whity brown, mottled with smoky brown ; two widely 

 sinuated central black -brown lines, the outer one dentate- 

 sinuate and followed by a similar but less defined line or 

 stripe ; an undulated white submarginal stripe, bounded in- 

 ternally towards costa of primaries and anal angle of secon- 

 daries by large blackish spots ; a marginal series of black 

 lunules : primaries with a subbasal arched blackish line ; two 

 ill-defined parallel blackish stripes at basal fourth : antennas 

 widely plumose, the pectinations being extremely long and 

 curved outwards ; back of collar and posterior half of abdo- 

 men black, anus testaceous. Under surface whity brown ; 

 wings with blackish discocellular lunules, a dusky postmedian 

 undulated line, and traces of a dusky submarginal line ; 

 front of pectus brownish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. 



Darjiling [Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



In pattern most like B. lunifera. 



32. Hypochroma crocina, sp. n. 



Primaries above sap-green, more or less clouded with 

 blackish, speckled with black ; the two ordinary black lines 



