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Sect. III. Antenna; of male bipecLinate with short branches, the apical third 

 ciliated. 



A. Hind wing with broad brownish subterminal band vigcns. 



B. Hind wing without subteriuinal band. 



a. Fore wing with large quadrate black mark in snbmedian 



interspace before postmedial line hrev'qxnnis. 



h. Fore wing with slight black spot in submedian interspace 



before postmedial line fasciafa. 



3599. DaseochsDta vigens. 



Diphiera vigcns, Wlk. xxxii. 616 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 294. 



Head and thorax deep emerald-green ; palpi black, white at tips ; 

 frons whitish, black at sides ; antennae black-brown ; shoulders 

 with black streaks ; metathorax with paired black patches ; pectus 

 ventrally black-brown ; the tibiae green with black spots, the tarsi 

 black-brown banded with whitish ; abdomen yellow suffused with 

 black-brown on terminal half, some green on dorsum and anal tuft, 

 the crests tipped with black, the ventral surface black-brown with 

 two sublateral white points at middle, a ventral series and bar 

 before the green anal tuft. Fore wing deep emerald-green, the 

 costal edge white ; a curved black mark from base of costa to 

 median nervure, a subbasal black striga from costa and a black 

 fascia on inner marain extending to the antemedial line, which is 



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 Fig. 5. — Dasecckcef.d viffcns, S . \. 



black defined by white on outer side, angled inwards on median 

 nervure, outwards in submedian fold, then oblique and excurved 

 above inner margin ; a black striga in submedian fold representing 

 the extremity of the claviform with white fascia from it to the 

 black spot on inner edge of postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black and white at sides, and with quadrate black patch 

 between them, open above and below, the former round ; a black 

 bar from costa to outer edge of orbicular, and a slight blackish 

 lunule on inner margin ; postmedial line represented by two black 

 points on costa and a black line defined by silvery white on inner 

 side from below costa much nearer termen, incurved in discal fold, 

 angled outwards at vein 4, then oblique and slightly sinuous to 

 submedian fold and outwardly oblique to inner margin, a band of 

 dark suffusion beyond it and some black and white points on costa ; 



