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6. Thalassodes retusa sp. npv. 

 <? ? . 43 — 45 mm. 



Face green. Palpus in dT 1^, with third joint fully half as long as 

 second ; in ? nearly 2, with third joint nearly as long as second ; 

 green, white beneath. Vertex white ; occiput green. Antennal shaft 

 white proximally, then pale green. Thorax above deep green, beneath 

 greenish-white. Abdomen white, broadly green dorsally on first few 

 segments, the green then narrowing, scarcely tinging the last segments. 

 Legs predominantly white, the fore and middle legs tinged with reddish- 

 ochreous on inner side ; fore tibia thickened, the tufts of hair on 

 underside in the $ stronger than in the allies ; hind tibia not dilated, 

 the spurs not shortened. 



Fore wing with K 2 well forward, DC 3 markedly incurved, M 1 con- 

 nate ; blue-green (rather darker than in veraria Guen., falsaria Prout, 

 &c), with very fine white strigulation ; costal edge whitish-buff ; lines 

 white fine, obsolete costally, otherwise moderately distinct ; antemedian 

 oblique, about as in the allies ; postmedian nearly straight, slightly 

 less nearly parallel with terrnen than in most of the group, reaching 

 hindmargin at two-thirds ; fringe cream-buff, tinged with greenish 

 proximally. Hind wing with termen only very weakly bent at E 3 ; the 

 white discal mark extremely slender to subobsolete ; postmedian rather 

 firm though fine, nearly straight to the usual bend at M 1 , then 

 straightish or waved to abdominal margin ; fringe as on fore wing. 



Underside pale-green with DC 2 — 3 slightly whiter ; costal margin 

 of fore wing and fringes cream-colour. 



Central Ceram : Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, 

 one $ , three ? ? . 



Easily distinguished from falsaria Prout by its larger size, deeper 

 colour, much more bluntly bent hind wing, besides other slighter 

 differences. The only member of the group in which the hind wing is 

 quite so obtusely angled, is the red-faced clarifanbria Prout from 

 Ceylon. 



7. Thalassodes hypocrites Prout vivida subsp. nov. 



«? ? . 



Hind wing slightly broader than in hypocrites hypocrites (Assam to 

 Singapore), the angle at R 3 not sharp. Ground-colour brighter green, 

 rather more opaque, but appearing less smooth, the white irroration 

 and strigulation being rather more developed. Termen without black 



