194 NOCTUID-T?:. 



Gi30. Loplioptera aciida. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 12.) 



Gyvtona acacia, Swinb. A. M. N. IT. (7) xvii. p. .549 (190G). 



$ . Head ajid thorax brown mixed with whitish, some pale hlne- 

 green behind antenna3, at tips of tcgulaB, and on metathorax; base 

 of palpi and throat greenish white ; pectus white ; legs brown, the 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown with pale blue-greeu 

 segmental bands, the crests darker, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 W'ing brown with a slight violaceous tinge, the basal area pale blue- 

 green sliglitly irrorated with rufous, the outer edge running 

 obliquely from costa before antemerlial line to middle of vein 1, 

 then along it to postmedial line ; subbasal line represented by twM> 

 red-brown strite from costa ; antemedial line double, red-brown, 

 oblique, waved ; minute points of raised black scales at and beb)Av 

 middle of cell ; rcniform with pale blue-green anuulus defined by 

 points of raised black scales, constricted at middle and with its 

 lower extremity produced, a streak of greenish suffusion beyond its 

 upper extremit)^ ; medial line blackish, oblique, sinuous ; post- 

 medial line double, blackish, strongly bent ouUvards below^ costa, 

 then minutely waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ver)- 

 indistinct, greyish, excurved at middle, some dark brown before it 

 at middle and a pale greenish band from vein 4 to inner margin, 

 the area beyond it with slight dark streaks in the interspaces; a 

 terminal scries of dark brown strioe. Hind wing black-brown, the 

 cell and interspaces below and just beyond it hyaline ; cilia whitish 

 at base and tips ; the underside with indistinct medial brown bar 

 from costa and curved postmedial line. 



llah. W. Sumatra, Padang, 1 5 fvp^- Exp. 28 raillim. 



6440. Lophoptera viridaria. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 13.) 



Bdcioptera viridaria, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 172 (1902). 



S , Head and tegulse oehreous ; palpi red-brown at sides ; frons 

 ■with lateral brown bars ; tegulae with some white scales and brown 

 lines at middle and near tips ; thorax pale yellow-green with some 

 black scales on upper edge of patagia ; pectus and legs whitish and 

 browm, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged 

 with red-brown and with ventral series of small blackish spots. 

 Fore wing pale yellow-green ; a triangular patch of red-brown 

 suffusion from costa, where il; extends from subbasal to postmedial 

 line to submedian fold, and a large patch of blackish suffusion from 

 termen, on wdiich it extends from apex to vein 3, to the reniform ; 

 subbasal line double, minutely w='aved, from costa to submedian 

 fold; antemedial line double, waved; claviform a small black spot ; 

 orbicular grey defined by black, small, round ; reniform narrow 

 ■with some black and grey on inner edge followed by ochreous 

 white, then rufous, then white lines, the extremity of median 

 nervure streaked with white and grey ; postmedial line black, 



