116 NOCTUID-45. 



tarsi fuscous brown ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown, the 

 anal tuft pale brown. Fore wing sap-green slightly tinged with 

 brown, the subbasal, medial, and postmedial areas mostly suffused 

 with deep red-brown ; the veins streaked with brown with some 

 silvery blue scales near base and towards extremity of median 

 nervure ; the diffused subbasal brown band not reaching inner 

 margin ; antemedial line silvery blue, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, waved; claviform absent; orbicular and reniforra 

 large, green, rather quadrate, the former with brown centre irrorated 

 with silvery blue scales and connected with a hemispherical green 

 spot below the cell, the latter somewhat angled inwards on median 

 nervure, the centre tinged with brown and its lower part suffused 

 with brown ; postmedial line silvery blue except towards costa 

 where it is pale, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate ; 

 exciirved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the 

 brown and green areas, dentate, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, 

 2, and at inner margin ; cilia olive-green and blackish intersected 

 with white. Hind wing fuscous brown, a diffused greenish white 

 postmedial line from vein 2 to inner margin and indistinct diffused 

 subterminal band ; cilia chequered brown and white ; the underside 

 greenish white thickly irrorated with fuscous brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and indistinct diffused postmedial and subterminal 

 bands. 



Hob. SiKHiM, Tonglo, 10,000' (Elives), 1 c? type. Ewj). 44 

 millim. 



2862. Trachea snbviridis. 



Plataplecia snbviridis, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. ii, p. 32, pi. 31. f. 3 (1878). 

 Head and thorax reddish ochreous slightly mixed with brown, 

 the dorsum of thorax greyish : edges of patagia with some black 

 scales ; fore tibise and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 



Fig. 21. — Trachea subviridis, (^ . \. 



reddish ochreous, the dorsal crests brown. Fore wing whitish 

 suffused in parts with olive-yellow, especially on postmedial area 

 except towards costa and inner margin and slightly irrorated with 

 brown, the inner margin whitish on medial area ; subbasal line 

 double, waved, filled in with whitish below the cell and ending at 

 submedian fold, a brown patch beyond it on costal area; antemedial 

 line double, filled in with whitish from cell to inner margin, 



