CHCEROCAMPIN^. 21 



Larva pale green, with a large lateral ocellus composed of a crimson and wliite- 

 bordered black spot ringed with black; a pale bordered purple subdorsal band 

 extending from the ocellus to base of the horn ; spiracles black ringed. Pupa pale 

 ochreous, with longitudinal dusky streaks, darker spiracles, and brown segmental 

 bands. 



"Feeds on Leea staphylea (Vitacege)." (Thwaites.) 



Genus GNATHOTHLIBUS. 



Chromis* Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 138 (1818-25). 

 Gnatliothlihus, Wallengren, Kongl. Vetens. Acad. Forhandl. 1858, p. 137. 



Forewing less triangular in form than in Hathia; costa more arched at the end, 

 exterior margin less oblique, posterior margin longer and more recurved ; first 

 subcostal emitted at two-fifths and second at one-fifth before end of the cell, fifth 

 from immediately beyond end of the cell ; discocellular obliquely concave : middle 

 median at one-fifth and lower at three-fifths before end of the cell : hindwing 

 narrow ; two subcostal branches on a short footstalk beyoud end of the cell ; 

 discocellular outwardly oblique, upper end bent inward below the middle, radial from 

 the angle ; middle median at one- sixth and lower at three-sixths before end of the 

 cell ; abdomen shorter and thicker than in HatJiia ; head short ; antennae stout. 

 (Type, Erotiis.) 



GNATHOTHLIBUS PALLICOSTA (Plate 84, Fig. 6). 



ChcBTOcampa pallicosta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 145 (1856) ; Boisduval Spec. Gea. 

 Lep. Het. p. 251 ; Butler, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 566, id. lUust. Types, Lep. Het. iii. pi. 41, f. 2 . 



Forewing dark purplish-ferruginous ; costal edge ferruginous-yellow ; posterior 

 margin fringed with pure white ; an oblique discal glaucous-bordered lunular fascia 

 and two similar but less distinct outer fascise, a lunate white spot at end of the cell : 

 hindwing red, costal border yellowish ; cilia pure white. Thorax dark purplish- 

 ferruginous ; abdomen, sides of thorax, head, and palpi beneath, a central streak on 

 thorax, and legs in front, white. 



Expanse, cJ 3, ? 3J inches. 



Genus THERETRA. 



Theretra, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 135 (1818-25). 



Forewing long, costa gently arched near the end, apex acute, slightly falcate at 



tip ; exterior margin oblique, wavy, and slightly convex ; posterior margin recurved ; 



first subcostal emitted at nearly one-fourth, and second at one-eighth before end of 



the cell, fifth from some distance beyond the cell ; discocellular inwardly oblique, 



* Preoccupied by Cuvier for a genus of Fishes, in 1817. 



