27S NOCTUID,-K, 



6561. Giaura niveidisca. (Plate CLXXXL fig. 20.) 



ArgyrotJiripa vivcidisca, Hiiipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 382 (1894). 

 Clettharra triangularis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 386 (1894). 



cJ . Head fuscous; thorax white faintly tinged with pink, the 

 metathoracic crest tinged with green, some brown scales sometimes 

 on prothorax ; fore and raid tibiae and tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown, the basal crest 

 blackish. Fore wing white faintly tinged with pink, the base and 

 costal edge tinged Avith pale yellow-green, a triangular fuscous 

 black patch on middle of inner margin ; post medial line double 

 filled in with pale green, oblique from middle of costa to vein 3 

 near termen, then erect, the area beyond it fuscous black to discal 

 fold, then white suffused with pale green ; subterminal line hardly 

 traceable, white, with two black lunules before it at middle ; a 

 punctiform black terminal line. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown. 



Hab. Bhutan {Duclgeon), 4 S ; Assam, Dunsiri Valley (DoTierty), 

 type t triangidaris in Coll. Rothschild ; Burma, Tenasserim 

 (Dohertij), type t in Coll. Druce. Exp. 20 millim. 



6582. Giaura niphea. (Plate CLXXXI. fig. 21.) 

 Ptisciana niphea, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 527 (1896). 



Head and thorax pure white with some black-brown scales ; 

 palpi with some brown at sides ; antennas fuscous except towards 

 base ; fore tibiae and tarsi black-brown ringed with white, the hind 

 tibiae brown below, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white dorsally tinged with brown leaving white segmental lines. 

 Fore wing pure white ; a curved black subbasal line from costa to 

 Hubmedian fold and blackish patch on inner margin ; a rounded 

 black patch on costa and streaks in and below cell before the ante- 

 medial line, which is black with some olive-green scales, oblique, 

 excurved in and below the cell and angled inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1, travei-sing a triangular blackish patch ou 

 middle of inner margin ; postmedial line slight, double, olive-green, 

 oblique and somewhat sinuous from costa to vein 2, then erect and 

 slightly angled inwards in submedian fold, the area beyond it 

 fuscous black from costa to discal fold ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of rather elongate black spots, somewhat dentate and 

 defined on inner side by white on the black area, the mark above 

 tornus oblique ; a punctiform black terminal line ; cilia white and 

 black, wholly black towards apex. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown. 



Hah. Ceylon, Peradeniya ((jreeu), 1 (^ , Madulsima {Vauyhan), 

 1 S , Puttalam {Pole)., 1 $ type. Gampola {MacJcwood), 1 5 . 

 Exj). 20 millim. 



