EARIAS. '499 



c^. Fore wing green without pink or red suffusion; 

 hind wing semihyaline white. 

 ((?. Fore wing with the eiha tipped with brown ... jmdicana. 

 b~. Foi-e wing with the ciha not ti]5ped with brown. 

 «.3. Fore wing with the costal and inner areas 



broadly white fahia. 



//. Fore wing with the costal and inner areas 

 not broadly white, 

 a*. Fore wing on underside white, the terminal 

 area tinged with green. 



a". Fore wing irrorated with wliite syriacana. 



6'. Fore wing not irrorated with white chlorana. 



b^. Fore wing on underside white tinged with 

 brown to termen. 

 a'. Fore wing with the cilia orange-yellow 



at tips chlorophyllana. 



b". Fore wing with the cilia white at tips... smaragdina. 

 d^ . Fore wing pale greenish yellow oohrophijllu. 



6857. Earias citrina. (Plate CLXXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Ear:as cifrina, Saalm. Lep. Madag. i. p. 178 (1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. 



p. 282. 

 Earias crocea, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1699, p. 727- 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi rufous 

 mixed with white; antennte brown; pectus and legs white, the 

 iore tibiaa and the tarsi suffused with rut'ous and ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white dorsally tinged with ochreous, the crobts at base 

 j-ellow, the 2nd tipped with rufous. Fore wing ochreous tinged 

 with rufous ; a faint oblique brownish antemedial line, excurved 

 below eosta and cell and above inner margin, with small brown 

 spots on it below costa, in cell and in submedian fold ; a small 

 round brown discoidal spot; postmedial line slight, brownish with 

 a series of brown points on it, excurved below costa, slightly in- 

 curved at discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; a slight brownish 

 subterminal line with series of brown points on it, excurved below 

 costa and at middle and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; 

 cilia brown except at base. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 termen and cilia towards apex tinged with reddish ochreous. 



Ab. 1, Head, thorax, and fore wing orange-yellow. 



Ab. 2. Similar but fore wing with the markings nearly obsolete. 



Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale yellow, the last tinged 

 with green except on basal and costal areas, the markings slight, 

 greenish. 



Hah. SoKOTEA, Jena-agahan (O.-Grant), 1 c?, Adho Dimellus 

 (O.-Grant), 1 c? ; Be. E. Afuica, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 5 , Nairobi 

 {Craivsliaif), 1 c5' , Machakos (Craivsliay^, 1 Si Escarpment 

 {Doherty), 1 S : Mozambique, Beira {Sheppard), 1 $ ; Natal, 1 $ ; 

 Madagascar; Comoko Is. Exp. 24 millim. 



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