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a central green spot, three following segments green with 

 pale brown borders and blackish dorsal tufts, remaining 

 segments sordid white. Under surface creamy whitish ; 

 wings slightly tinted with green ; external area grey, paler 

 at the margins, and with the apical patches of the upper sur- 

 face greenish white : primaries with an indistinct rosy zigzag 

 stripe before the middle. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Darjiling {Lidderdcde) . Type B. M. 



Nearest to A. hemithearia of Guenee. 



46. Thalera textilis, sp. n. 



Bright emerald-green, mottled, particularly on the veins, 

 with pearly white ; a submarginal chain-like belt of the same 

 colour enclosing a series of green lunules ; a marginal series 

 of white and sulphur-yellow diamond-shaped spots, which ex- 

 tend into the fringe ; fringe tipped with grey : primaries with 

 grey-mottled chalky-white costal border ; a white-edged green 

 lunule at the end of the cell : secondaries with the basal half 

 of abdominal fringe white : body mottled with white, abdo- 

 men with a dorsal series of white spots. Under surface white : 

 wings glassy, opaline, veins dead white; fringe greenish 

 spotted with testaceous, tipped with grey : primaries with 

 blackish-speckled white costal border. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 4 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . Type B. M. 



A beautifully delicate species, with strongly denticulated 

 margin to the secondaries ; it seems more nearly to approach 

 " Comibcena " albiceps of Felder in pattern than any other 

 known form. 



Palyadse. 



Dissophthalmus, gen. nov. 



OphthahnophoroB affiue, corpore robustiore, abdomine brevi, palpis 

 tcnuioribns, alis brevioribus, celluhV discoidalibus (prsesertim 

 cellula alarum anticarum) longioribus, ramis subcostalibus 

 anticarum valdc approximatis. Gen. typ. D. iridis. 



47. DissopJtthahnus iridis, sp. n. 



Wings above with the basal three fourths lilacine, minutely 

 irrorated with opaline scales; a dusky streak beyond the 

 middle; external fourth pale greyish brown, crossed by a 

 submarginal lilacine belt spangled with metallic blue and 

 green, the spots in primaries decreasing in size from the costa 

 downwards ; the centre of the belt in the secondaries occupied 

 by a large golden-green spot enclosing a blind black oval 



