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ous ; green with a blue dorsal stripe-edged by fine black lines ; two small black 

 dots on the neck and four black spots at anal extremity ; ventral surface 

 semi-transparent green. Food plant: Buclclandia populnea. 



Cocoon. — Oval, slight, fastened to the ground and covered by a slight semi- 

 transparent grey papery cover. 



Pupa. — Bounded, pale brown (Badgley). 



853 b. Miresa pyronota, n. sp. (PL F., f. 22). 



£. Head and thorax fiery red with a few red-brown scales mixed : palpi 

 dark at sides ; pectus and legs more rufous ; abdomen yellow slightly tinged 

 with red and with rufous dorsal patch at base. Forewing rufous with a slight 

 silvery gloss, some fiery red and yellow on basal half of inner margin ; some 

 silver scales at upper angle of cell and a triangular silver spot just beyond lower 

 angle ; a postmedial series of silver points on the veins, oblique below vein 7 : 

 the terminal area with slight silvery irroration. Hindwing yellow tinged with 

 red and with a slight silvery gloss. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Trincomali (Green). Exp. 38 mill. Type in B. M. 



855 a. Miresa metathermistis, n. sp. (PI. F., f . 6). 



£. Head and tegulse yellow, the palpi except at tips and antennas rufous ; 

 thorax and abdomen yellow suffused with rufous, the metathorax with deep 

 rufous tuft of hair. Forewing bright rufous, the basal half of inner area 

 yellowish ; an indistinct deep rufous discoidal spot with a few silvery scales on 

 it ; postmedial line deep rufous with silvery white scales on and before it and 

 silvery white spots on it in submedian interspace and on inner margin, oblique 

 from vein 6 to middle of inner margin ; a slight rufous terminal line ; cilia 

 yellowish at base deep rufous at tips. Hindwing silky rufous, the cilia 

 yellowish at base. 



Habitat. — Bombay, Kanara, Karwar (T. R. Bell). Exp. 30 mill. 



Larva. — Food plant : Blachia. 



856 b. Miresa phocea, n. sp. (PL F., f . 5). 



Antennas of male bipectinate with short branches to apex. 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen very dark brown, the hairs slightly tipped 

 with grey ; tarsi pale below. Forewing very dark brown with a leaden grey 

 gloss, the scaling of medial and postmedial areas except towards costa ribbed 

 like seal-skin ; a very oblique grey line defined on inner side by blackish from 

 middle of costa to inner mai'gin before middle ; an elliptical blackish discoidal 

 spot ; an obscure diffused dark subterminal line from costa to termen at vein 

 .2, angled outwards below costa, then incurved. Hindwing dark glossy red- 

 brown. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Trincomali (Green). Exp. 32 mill. Type in B. M. 



862 a. Parasa metathermes. n. sp. (PL F., f . 4). 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen chocolate brown; patches on back of 

 head, tegulas except at middle and sides and patagia except outer edges bright 

 grass-green. Forewing with the basal area chocolate brown, its outer edge 

 angled outwards at median nervure and vein 1 and with slight yellowish line ; 



