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chequered white and black at tips. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; 

 cilia pale rufous at base, wliite and fuscous at tip? ; the underside 

 whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, the terminal area suifased 

 with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved slightly waved post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. Java, Arjuno, 3000' (Doherttj), 1 $ type, Ex^^. 32 millira. 



2886. Trachea albidisca. 



Hadena albidisca, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 59, pi. 6. f. 17 ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Iiid. ii. p. 215. 

 Dianthoecia nivescens, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 58, pi. 128. f. 2 (1889). 



Head and thorax olive-green with a few white scales ; palpi 

 whitish, black at sides ; sides of frons black ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous and whitish, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 brownish, the dorsal crests and anal tuft rafous. Fore wing golden 

 olive-green, with a bluish tinge before the antemedial line and on 

 veins of medial area ; subbasal line white defined on each side by 

 black, angled inwards in cell and ending at vein 1 ; a black mark 

 above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is black 

 defined by white on inner side, oblique, angled inwards in cell, on 

 vein 1, and to inner margin, the area beyond it suffused with dark 

 brown in and beyond cell and below cell and vein 2 to postmedial 

 line ; a small triangular white mark from vein 2 marking extremity 

 of claviform ; orbicular blackish defined by some black scales and 

 with slight white spot or bar on its outer edge, open below ; a small 

 elliptical white spot in cell before the reniform, which is represented 

 by a diffused white patch extending to vein 2 ; postmedial line 

 black defined by white on outer side, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to black and white points on the 

 veins, oblique below vein 4 and incurved at vein 2, the costa beyond 

 it black with white points on it ; subterminal line white defined by 

 black marks on inner side below costa, then on outer side, dentate 

 and diffused at veins 7, (>, dentate at veins 4, 3, 2, and bent out- 

 wards to tornus ; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly 

 defined by white on inner side ; cilia with a series of black points 

 at tips. Hind wing pale uniformly suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the cilia green mixed with brown towards apex ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule, curved macu- 

 late postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Bab. W. China, Omei-shan, 1 d' , 2 $ , Ni-tou, 3 ? , Pu-tsu-fang, 

 1 § , Chia-kou-Ho (Fratt), 1 cS , Wa-ssu-kou, 3 $ , Ta-chien-lu 

 (Pratt), 1 2 ; Punjab, Simla (Harford), 2 (S , Dharmsala (Hoclcing), 

 3 S type nivescens; Sikhim (liussell), 1 S type; Assam, Khasis, 

 1 5, Chittagong, 1 5; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 (^ , 2 $ ; 

 Travancore, Pirmad (Imray), 1 S • Exp. 32-36 millim. 



