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the fore wing not being angulated on its outer margin ; the tore wing 

 in Colotois kumetaria is decidedly triangular, with the outer margin 

 angulated in the middle. The hind wing in the latter insect is also 

 shorter and broader. 



O X Y D 1 D ^. 



Omiza miliaria, n. sp. 



Male. Head, body, and wings dark green, sparsely irrorated with 

 black ; an antemedial outwardly-curved blackish band at one third 

 from the base on the fore wings, and a straight blackish baud from 

 tiie apex of the fore wings (where it is forked on to the costa) to 

 the abdominal border of the hind wings at one third from the angle, 

 and the fore wings with a blackish cell-spot and a blackish sub- 

 marginal central patch, l)ut this is obsolete in some specimens. 



Hind wings with the costal space whitish ; antennae with the 

 underside of the shaft white, upperside and plume pale green ; 

 abdomen with a blackish subbusal band, and on one very pure green 

 specimen there are two blackish bands below the centre. 



Underside pale green suifused with yellowish ; markings and bands 

 on fore wings as above, but very distinct, and the irrorations more 

 dense at the base of the wings ; hind wings without the band, and 

 with the costal portion strongly irrorated, and on the apex of the 

 fore wings, in the place of the fork on the upperside, there is a 

 white patch : body ochreous ; legs green above, ochreous beneath ; 

 cilia dark brown. 



Female. Head, body, and wings plum-colour, paling to reddish 

 violet in some specimens ; antennte pale greenish grey. Below the 

 coloration is much paler and of a burnt-sienna colour, especially so 

 on the hind wings. Markings above and below as in the male, but 

 on the wings above, in consequence of their dark coloration, the 

 markings are hardly visible ; the band across both wings has a broad 

 shade on its outer side, and there is a similar shade on the outer 

 margin of the fore wings ; there is also a discal spot on the hind 

 wings below, and the legs are j)lum-coloured above and pale burnt- 

 sienna below, like the body and the general coloration of the wings. 



Expanse of wings, S lyij, ? 2y\| inches. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills. Five pairs, in excellent condition, received 

 from Mr. Hampson, in whose collection are some specimens of dif- 

 ferent tints of colour, varying from chrome-yellow to drab and brick- 

 red in the males. 



Distinguishable from its ally O. pachiaria by the shorter and 

 comparatively broader wings, the decidedly acute falcation of the 

 fore wing, and the difference of colour in the two sexes ; on the 

 underside also the colour of this insect is quite different from that of 

 O. jjfichiaria. 



AmPHIDASIDjE. 

 BUZURRA VARIANARIA, n. sp. 



Male and female. Body and wings white, thickly covered all over 

 with speckles and patches of grey, purple-brown, and ochreous ; the 

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