350 



NOCTTJID^. 



4, 3, 2, and beut outAvards to tornus ; the extremity o£ veins with 

 short black streaks, diffused at veins 6, 5 ; cilia black intersected 

 with white. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous leaving a 

 diffused dentate white subterminal band ending at tornus ; the 

 terminal part of vein 2 with two black marks ; cilia fuscous with 

 fine white line at base expanding into small spots at the veins ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with black, the costal area suffused 

 with black, a dark discoidal lunule and diffused irregular post- 

 medial and subterminal lines. 



Hab. SiiiHiM TiEET, Yatung (IJobson), 1 d ; Sikhim {Pilclier), 1 S . 

 ExiJ. 40-46 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennje of male bipectinate with slioi't branches, the apical part 

 serrate, of female ciliated. 



2522. Valeria viridinigra. 



Euplexia icamba, Hmpsn. Motbs Ind. ii. p. 222 (1894), nee Swinh. 

 Euplexia viridinigra, Hmpsn. Motbs Ind. iv. p. 510 (1896). 



Fore wing red-brown mixed with black-brown and a few white 

 hairs ; palpi, pectus, and legs black-brown, the tibiae and tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown ; the dorsal crests and 

 anal tuft with some rufous. Fore wing moss-green more or less 

 suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with black, the veins 

 with leaden-black streaks, the medial area darker except at costa and 

 inner margin ; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedia] area, with some black suffusion ; antemedial line black, 



Fig. 114. — Valeria viridinigra, J. \. 



angled outwards below costa, oblique to submedian fold, slightly 

 angled inwards on vein 1, then strongly outwards above inner 

 margin ; orbicular leaden-black with green annulus defined by 

 black, open above and below or above only, conjoined to an in- 

 distinct green annulus defined by black below the cell ; reniform 

 very large and ill-defined, green with dark marks on it at upper 

 and lower angles of cell, extending to well below the cell and 

 angled inwards on median nervure to the orbicular ; postmedial 

 line strongly angled outward below costa, then dentate, oblique 

 below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined by 

 blackish suffusion on inner side and with slight dentate black 

 marks before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7, then dentate ; 



