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to inner margin, its outer edge excurved beloV middle. Hind wing 

 orange, with broad terminal black band narrowing to tornus. 



Hah. Madagascar, Fianaraatsoa (Gowan), 2 2 ? type. Exjy. 

 38 millim. 



Genus CHRYSORABDIA. 



Type. 



ChrysorahMa, Butl. Traioa. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357 viridata. 



Proboscis presenb ; palpi obliquely uptiunied, extending to just beyond frons; 

 antennffi of male ciliated; tibiiB with the spars moderate; abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair. Pore wing long and narrow ; rein 2 from before middle of 

 cell, curved at base ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 absent ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 7,8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked or from cell ; 5 absent ; tlie diseo- 

 cellulars almost entirely aborted and the cell open, a recurrent vein in cell 

 from angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 from before middle of 

 cell. 



Sect. I, Fore wing of male with an oblique patch of audroconia on vein 1 

 almost met by an oblique streak from end of cell ; hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Thorax black viridata. 



B. Thorax yellow bivitia, 



377. Chrysorabdia viridata. 



Liihosia viridata, Wlk. xxxi. 225 (1864) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 19, pi. 2. 



f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 74 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. 

 Gnophria strigata, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xsxiii. p. 353 (1872). 



c? . Head and tegulse yellow ; palpi, frons, and antennae black ; 



patagia yellow edged witb black ; 

 thorax black ; abdomen yellow, the 

 dorsum greyish. Pore wing yel- 

 low, the costa, a broad fascia below 

 costa expanding towards termen, 

 and another on vein 1 narrow at 

 base and narrowing to termen, 

 Fig. 101. blackish with metallic green on 



Chrysorabdia viridata, 2 • \- them at base and beyond the 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) ^^^^^^^^ f^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^_ 



conia. Hind wing pale yellow. 



5 . Anal tuft blackish at base. Fore wing with a greenish-black 

 fascia on costa narrowing to a point before apex, and another from 

 base of inner margin to middle of termen. 



Hah. SiKHiM ( W. S. Atlcinson, Lidderdale), 4 c? , 6 5 , type ; 

 Assam, Sylhet. Ex^y., 6 40-42, $ 42-52 miUim. 



378. Chrysorabdia bivitta. (Plate XXIII. fig. 11.) 



Lithosia bivitta, Wlk. vii. 1682 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 74 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. 

 Lithosa disjuncta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 797 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. 



S . Pale orange-yellow ; palpi at tips, frons, and antennsfc 



