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pectus and legs -wlutish tinged with brown, the fore and hind 

 tibiae greenish barred with brown, the tarsi ringed with white; 

 abdomen fuscous with some green at base of dorsum, the genital 

 tufts rufous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing blue-green 

 thickly striated with brown ; subbasal line slight, sinuous, from. 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, un- 

 usuallj' near base ; claviform represented by a minute black 

 spot; orbicular rufous defined on outer side by black; reniform 

 defined by black and with black point in centre ; medial line 

 slightly waved, oblique below submedian fold, the area before it to 

 subbasal line red-brown except towards inner margin ; postmedial 

 line slight, black, oblique towards costa, then dentate, oblique 

 below vein 4, with black spots on its outer edge below vein 7 and 

 between vein 5 and inner margin, the costa beyond it with minute 

 alternating black and white streaks ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of slight black spots on its outer edge, with a red-brown 

 mark before it at costa, and slight black streak before and beyond 

 it below costa ; a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia dark 

 brown mixed with grey. Hind wing fuscous black, the lower part 

 of cell and the interspaces below and just beyond it hyaline ; cilia 

 white with a dark line near base ; the underside with slight dark 

 striga from middle of costa. 



5 . Brighter blue-green. 



Ab. ] . Fore wing with the basal area pale oclireous yellow to near 

 medial line with some diffused brownish streaks on it near base. 



Hah. N. India (Ja«u'A'), 1 $ type; Johore, Eatu Pahat {lUdUy)^ 

 1 S ; SiNGAPOEE {Ridley), 4 c? , 7 $ ; Bokneo, Kuching (SJudford), 

 1 2 ; PuiLiPPiNES, Cebu. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Genus GIGANTOCESAS. rr 



Giganioceras, Foil. Psyche, vi. p. 549(1893) -. sohtitialis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joiiit reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3i-d rather long; frons 

 smooth with large tuft of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antenna; in both 

 sexes about one and a half times length of fore wing and ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; legs 

 extremely elongate and slender, the outer spurs about half the length of inner ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 6 from close to angle of 

 cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Skct. I. Frons very narrow, the eyes approximated in front. 



*6405. Gigantoceras geometroptera. 



Giganioceras geometroptera, HoU. Psyche, vi. p. 550, pi. 21. f. 8 (1893). 



S . Head and thorax greyish tinged with sap-green and brown ; 

 frons with black band above ; palpi, lower part of frons, and pectus 

 brownish ochreous ; tibite and tarsi brown, the former whitish at 



