TRACHEA. 137 



51'. Fore wing nearly even fuscous 



brown tinged with grey ohlonga. 



W. Fore wing with the subteruiinal line 

 excurved at middle but not, dentate, 

 a'o. Fore wing with the medial and ter- 

 minal areas concolorous. 

 a^'. Fore wing fuscous brown, the reni- 

 form with two white points at 



lower extremity gcm'mimacula. 



b^^. Fore wing purplish black, the reni- 

 form with minute white lunule on 

 its outer edge with one or two 



points above and below it impulsa. 



¥^. Fore wing bright rufous, the medial 

 and terminal areas suffused with 



black hrunnca. 



b'i. Fore wing with the postmedial line evenly 



curved below vein 4 sccalis. 



b^. Fore wing with the reuiform wholly filled in 

 with white. 

 a^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial 



areas pale rufous chcdcircna. 



/)■*. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial 



areas white except towards costa ascoldis. 



*2880. Trachea smaragdistis, 11. n. (Plate CXI. fig. 2.) 



E-wplexia smaragdina, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 195 (1906), nee 

 Neum. 1883. 



(5 . Head and thorax emerald-green ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 base, middle, and extremity of patagia, and metathorax with some 

 black scales ; legs brownish ; pectus and abdomen ochreoiis. Fore 

 wing emerald-green ; small black spots below base of costa and cell 

 with white points on their outer edges and followed by a diffused 

 irregular black band ; the antemedial line white, incurved from 

 costa to median nervure, angled outwards below cell and above inner 

 margin and inwards on vein 1, and with black points on its outer 

 edge at costa, in submedian fold, and above inner margin ; a black 

 spot with white bar on its outer edge below base of vein 2 ; orbicular 

 black with white annulus, small, oblique elliptical ; reniform green 

 with white annulus ; the end of cell and area above it suffused with 

 black, with white bar across end of cell ; some black suffusion 

 beyond the reniform ; the postmedial line white, arising as an 

 oblique striga above the reniform with some black suffusion above 

 it, bent strongly outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, angled 

 inwards in submedian fold, and with black spots and bars on its 

 inner edge, and a series of points beyond it becoming small dentate 

 marks towards inner margin ; a black patch on costa before apex 

 and a series of dentate spots on termen varying in size. Hind wing 

 pale suffused with fuscous and with pale curved postmedial line ; 

 the underside whitish with blackish discoidal point and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Be. j^. Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), type in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker ; Qtjeensla^'d, Geraldton, in Coll. Turner. Eccjr. 32 millim. 



