NEOLAPHYGMA. 



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3879. Neolaphygma leucoplaga, n. sp. 



2 . Head and tegute green tinged with rufous and with darker 

 hars above frons aud between antennae ; palpi dark brown mixed 

 with whitish ; antennae blackish ; thorax green with some grey on 

 dorsum ; pectus and legs dark brown mixed with grej% the fringes 

 of scales on tibiae and tarsi green, the tibiaj and tarsi ringed with 

 white, the hind tarsi rufous ; abdomen fuscous with slight greyish 

 segmental lines and grey bands on terminal segments, the anal tuft 

 ochreous, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing purplish grey 

 suffused in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black, some 

 sap-green suffusion on antemedial area to below the cell and on 

 postmedial area ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from 

 costa defined by green on outer side, a round pure white patch 

 beyond it from costa to just below cell ; antemedial line indistinct 



Fig. 69. — Neolaphygma leucoplaga, 5 



except at costa and inner margin, blackish defined by whitish on 

 inner side, waved from costa to submedian fold, then strongly 

 angled inwards on vein 1 and bent outwards above inner margin ; 

 orbicular small, elongate elliptical, with deep black centre and grey 

 annulus slightly defined by black, the cell beyond it green ; reniform 

 with irregular centre defined by black and whitish annulus ; an 

 irregularly waved medial dark line ; postmedial line black much 

 interrupted, defined by white on outer side then by red-brown, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, closely approxi- 

 mated to the reniform and incurved below vein 4, some green 

 beyond it below costa and some white points on costa with rufous 

 streaks between them ; traces of a pale subterminal line ; a terminal 

 series of small black spots slightly defined by white on inner side ; 

 cilia ochreous and rufous with a red-brown line near base. Hind 

 wing semihyaline purplish grey suffused with bro^n, paler at base ; 

 a brown terminal line ; cilia with fine brown line near base ; the 

 underside with the costal area white irrorated with dark brown, a 

 diffused dark mark on costa near base, brownish discoidal lunule, 

 diffused postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and obsolescent, and terminal lunulate line. 



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