On Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar. 129 



dorsal dots and the sides of the abdomen snow-white ; an- 

 tenna? with ferruginous pectinations. Wings below pale 

 emerald-green, with an indistinct discal series of sap-green 

 spots ; primaries also with a straight postmedian stripe of the 

 same colour ; veins white ; fringe sap-green tipped with white : 

 body white, yellowish in front. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 5 lines. 



N.E. Himalayas (Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



37. Geometra grata, sp. n. 



Emerald-green j wings sparsely striated with golden orange: 

 primaries with the costal margin pinky whitish, crossed by 

 dark brown stria? and dots ; two widely separated, inarched, 

 subparallel golden-orange lines, the inner one distinctly irre- 

 gular, the outer one very slightly so ; fringe tipped with 

 white : secondaries with the costal border, abdominal margin, 

 and the outer half of the fringe upon the outer margin snow- 

 white ; a transverse, diffused, golden-orange stripe just before 

 the middle : palpi, antennas, and front of collar pinky white ; 

 abdomen creamy white, greenish at base. Under surface 

 sericeous white, the wings showing a tint of green owing to 

 the transparency of their texture ; costal border creamy ; the 

 numerous stria? of the upper surface indistinctly visible ; a 

 curved greyish line just beyond the middle ; minute blackish 

 discocellular dots : pectus green in front. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 10 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



Nearest to G. dentisignata of Moore. 



[To be continued.] 



XVI. — Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of 

 Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by 

 Capt. W. H. Cawne Warren. By H. J. Carter, F.R.S. 

 &c. 



[Continued from p. Ql.] 



[Plates VII., VIIL] 

 Geodina. 



To facilitate an understanding of the complicated spicula- 

 tion of a typical Geodia, and thereby to save repetition in 

 description hereafter, the following definitions are premised, 

 viz. : — 



1. The " zone-spicule." This is generally the largest of 

 all and trifid at its external extremity, where the arms, either 



