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Head and thorax yellow-green mixed willi some white ; palpi 

 white irrorated with red-broun except at base; frons white; 

 antennae red-brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and 

 tarsi irrorated with red-brown ; abdomen white, dorsally slightly 

 tinged with brown, the crests at base green. Fore wing yellow- 

 green slightly irrorated with white, the costal edge white to near 

 apex ; a faint medial green line from below costa to median nervure, 

 then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, green, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; an indistinct rather 

 diffused green subterminal line, oblique from costa to vein 7. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen tinged with browu from 

 apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing white, tinged with brown 

 except on inner area. 



Ab. 1. anthojjliilana. Eore wing ochreous with the lines purplish 

 green and distinct, a dark discoidal point. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the costa and inner margin ochreous 

 irrorated with purplish, the cilia purplish at tips. 



Ab, 3. Fore wing with the area between the medial and post- 

 medial lines filled in with purplish from vein 6 to inner margin. 



Ab. 4. Similar but the band rufous, the cilia tinged with rufous 

 at tips. 



Ab. o. dorsivUta. Fore wing with grey medial stripe. — Syria. 



Hah. SpiiN, Iberia ; Sicily ; Canaeier , Creie ; K. Nigeria, 

 Zungeru {Macfie), 1 cJ , 6 5 ; Egypt, Cairo, Zeller Coll. (Sicl-en- 

 berr/er), 3 c^ , 7 $ , Gizeh (Flower), 1 cj' , 1 5 ; Abyssinia, Atbara 

 (Gerrard), 1 J ; Sokotea, Adho Dimellus (O.-Grant), 1 J; Be. E. 

 Afeica, Taveta {Rogers), 1 (5" , 2 5 , Machakos (CrawsJiay), 1 cj' , 

 Gwelil (Betton), 1 $ ; Be. C. Aeeica, Likoma {de Jersey), 1 (5,1$; 

 Mashonalane, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 (5 ; MozAMsiaEE, Beira, 

 Zambite (^Shepj)ard), 1 S ; Loeenco Maeques, Delagoa Bay (Ken- 

 rich), 1 5 ; Teansvaal, Piet Retief (Morley), 1 5 , Warmbad 

 (Janse), 2 $ , Pretoria (Jcinse), 1 J , Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 $ ; 

 Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 (^ ; Oeange B. Colony, Bloemfon- 

 tein (EcJcersley), 1 J ; Basuioland, Maseru (Oraivshay), 1 d" , Masite 

 (Cratushay), 1 5 ; Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith, Drege), 3 c? , Ann&haw 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 S ; Maeeities, 1 S ; Bed Sea (Meade- Waldo), 

 1 § ; Cypees (Miss Bate), 1 $ ; Syeia (Lederer), 1 c? ; Foemosa 

 (Hohson), 1 5 ; Punjab (Hearsey, Home), 3 5 , Almorah (Boys), 1 $ 

 type/rou(iosrtna, ICulu (HocJcinr/), 1 5 , Campbellpur (Terhury), 3 S , 

 Wuzeerabad (Hearsey), 1 S , Allahabad, 2 c? , Moghal Sarai (Betton), 

 1 (5 ; Bilechistan, Hubb B., 2 c? type tristriyosa ; Sine, Karachi 

 (Swinhoe), 3 c? , 1 $ ; Mabeas, Coimbatore ( Walhouse), 1 d ; 

 Ceylon (Pole), 1 c? > 1 $ ; Berma, Myingyan (Watson), 1 c? , 1 $ ; 

 Penang (Ridley), 1 S ; Siam, 1 c? type simillima ; Boeneo, 

 Sarawak ( Wallace), type t xanthophila in Mus. Oxon. ; Philippines, 

 Manilla (Banlfs), 1 J ; Celebes. Exp. 16-28 millim. 



Larva. Hoffm. Eaup. p. 288. 



Food-plants : Ceratonia siliqua and Gossypium herhaceum ; very 

 destructive to the cotton-plant. 



