128 On new Species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. 



spaces ; an oblique black discocellular litura. Expanse of 

 wings 2 inches 1 line. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



34. Gnophos cereus, sp. n. 



Bronzy green, sprinkled here and there with bluish white 

 and mottled with black : wings with brown fringes, slightly 

 speckled at the base with bluish white, and traversed by a 

 dark brown line ; a marginal undulated blackish line ; a sub- 

 marginal series of blackish lunules, speckled internally with 

 bluish-white scales ; the two usual irregularly sinuated 

 blackish lines indicating the central belt, the inner one obso- 

 lete on the secondaries ; a blackish spot on the discocellulars ; 

 primaries with a blackish subbasal line : abdomen brownish. 

 Wings below brownish grey, sericeous, with darker discocel- 

 lular dots, undulated discal line, and diffused discal belt ; 

 apex of each of the wings whitish ; a marginal series of conical 

 blackish spots, base of fringe whitish : body below pale smoky 

 brown. Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



Allied to G. muscosaria. 



35. Argidava punctata, sp. n. 



Sordid white ; primaries crossed by six oblique series of 

 black dots, the second series consisting of four, of which the 

 second is larger and forms the discoidal stigma or discocel- 

 lular spot, the last series marginal. Under surface creamy 

 white, sericeous ; all the wings with a grey discocellular spot, 

 a dentate-sinuate discal line, a submarginal series of indi- 

 stinct spots; primaries with a marginal series of blackish 

 dots, with golden-yellow costal margin and apex ; legs and 

 venter pale testaceous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). Type B. M. 



Allied to A. maculata. 



Geometridee. 

 36. Tanaorhinus smaragdus, sp. n. 



Bright green, above sea-green, wings with snow-white 

 fringe ; a discal slightly irregular series of snow-white spots ; 

 an olive-green stripe, bordered externally with white, slightly 

 undulated in the primaries just beyond the middle : primaries 

 with a second angular line, edged internally with white at 

 basal fourth ; an olive-green discocellular dot : body in the 

 type ochreous, with the exception of the collar, a series of 

 lateral spots on the abdomen and the anal tuft* ; two or three 



* But probably, when quite fresh, the body is wholly green above, like 

 the wings. 



