404 NOCT0ID^. 



vein 1 ; cilia orange, brown towards apex, and mixed with brown 

 to vein 2. Underside of fore wing brown with some pale yellowish 

 on inner area to beyond middle and on costa beyond the diffused 

 black postmedial band ; hind wing orange with curved black-brown 

 postmedial band from costa to submedian fold, and terminal band. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with dark brown and 

 with hardly any green. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the basal and inner areas greener, the 

 rest of wing suffused with black-brown. 



Ab. 3. variegata. Fore wing largely suffused with white, often 

 with oblique black fascia from upper angle of cell to termcn at 

 submedian fold. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing much greyer; hind wing with the postmedial 

 band narrow and pale. — Straits Settlements, liorneo. 



Hab. SiKHiM (AtMnson, Mbller), 2 (S type variegata ; Assam, 

 Nagas ; Andamans {Rogers). 1 J , 3 $ type ; Peeak, Kinta Valley 

 {Ridley), 1 (5" , 1 $ ; Singapore {Ridley), 1 § ; Borneo, Sadong 

 {SJudford), 1 d ; Bk. N. Guinea, Eke'ikei {Pratt), 5 c? , 4 $ , Mt. 

 Kebea {Pratt), 1 cJ • P^^v^- 36-44 millim. 



Sect. III. PaljDi of male with the base of 2ncl joint dilated and hollowed out 

 on outer side into a ear-shaped vesicle of white membrane. 



A. Hind wing with broad orange postmedial band from vein 6 



to above inner margin auricidata. 



33. Hind wing with slight curved orange postmedial bar 



between veins 6 and 2 mcdachitis. 



6739. Blenina auriculata, n. sp. 



S • Head and thorax bright sap-green mixed with black-brown 

 on dorsum of thorax ; palpi white at base ; pectus and legs creamy 

 white, the fore and mid tibiae with some green and fuscous, the 

 tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen orange-brown, the crests and 

 extremity darker, the ventral surface yellow. Fore wing bright 



Fig. 153. — Blenina auricidata, (^. \. 



sap-green irrorated with black and some white ; an oblique blackish 

 striga from base of costa ; subbasal line indistinct, bent inwards and 

 waved from subcostal nervure to submedian fold in which there is 

 a slight black streak ; antemedial line very indistinct, angled out- 

 wards below costa, then sinuous ; a black discoidal striga with 



