1885.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOMALI-LAND. 765 



by a black line ; marginal line and fringe as in primaries ; anal angle 

 creamy white, spotted with black and silver ; a large black spot at 

 the angle ; tails golden-orange at base, otherwise black with terminal 

 white fringe. Thorax above slaty-grey, collar brown, head white, 

 abdomen clay-brown banded with white. Below, pectus white, legs 

 yellowish ; venter white, with a central interrupted clay-brown streak. 

 Expanse of wings, d 29 niillira., $ 32-35 millim. 



d" 2 . Less than 80 miles S. of Berbera. — Thrupp. 



$ . Bunder Maria, 27tu April, ISSA.—Terburtj . 



Chloroselas, gen. nov. 



Allied to Spindasis; of the same form. Primaries with a black 

 patch of thickened scales at the end of the cell and at base of second 

 and third median branches ; costal vein extending to second third 

 of costal margin ; subcostal with only three branches, the first 

 emitted at some distance before the end of the cell, the second and 

 third emitted together from a long footstalk, and terminating upon 

 the costa just before the apex ; upper radial emitted from the anterior 

 angle of the cell, lower radial from the centre of the discocellulars, 

 which are transverse ; second and third median branches emitted near 

 together ; secondaries apparently with only one tail ; neuration as in 

 Spindasis : palpi broader, more curved, and with shorter terminal 

 joint than in Spindasis; antennae more slender and with more 

 abruptly formed club ; anterior legs more slender. Type, C. esme- 

 ralda. 



26. Chloroselas esmeralda, sp. n. (Plate XLVII. fig. 4.) 



Primaries above with the basi-interual half, excepting the costal 

 border, brilliant flashing emerald-green, changing in certain positions 

 to purple and in others to greyish flesh-colour, the basal half of costa 

 constantly of the latter colour, apical half smoky-brown ; a black 

 patch at the end of the cell : secondaries brilliant green, with the 

 costal border rather broadly smoky-brown, abdominal border pale 

 bronze-brown ; anal lobe golden-orange, spotted on each side with 

 black and silver. Body above blue-black ; head whitish, palpi white, 

 antennae annulated with white, club tipped with orange, abdomen 

 banded with whitish. Wings below pale sandy testaceous, the wings 

 spotted all over with embossed silver and black : primaries with 

 whitish internal area ,■ a silver spot near the base of the costal bor- 

 der, about six silver spots in the cell, an irregular transverse series 

 of six beyond the cell, two confused discal series of silver and black 

 spots ; a submargiual series of partly black-edged silver spots and a 

 nearly marginal series of black dots ; fringe white : secondaries with 

 four or five silver spots at the base ; a series of four across the basal 

 third followed by slender black dashes, then a forked discal series of 

 silver spots intermixed with six black spots ; submargiual series and 

 dots as on primaries ; orange, black, and silver lobe as above : body 

 below white. Expanse of wings 21-22 millim. 



Bunder Maria, 30th April, imA.—Terbury. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. — 1885, No. L. 50 



