22 CHALCOSIIDtE. 



the cell, a large trifid sulphur-yellow spot at the end of the cell, and two large spots of the 

 same colour on the second and third median interspaces. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 10 lines. 



Darjiling [Fotheringham §• Lidderdale). 



CHALCOSIA, Hiibner. 



Chalcosia adalifa. (Plate LXXXIIL fig. 5.) 

 Chalcosia adalifa, Walker (nee Doubl.*), Cat. Lep. Ret. ii. p. 421. n. 2 (1854). 



Primaries ahove with the basal half creamy white ; apical half blue-black, with greenish 

 and white veins ; a streak of bluish green running along the basal half of the costal border ; 

 a zigzag white discal band and an angulated subapical band, both tapering towards their 

 lower extremities : secondaries creamy white, with a blue-bordered apical black patch crossed 

 by blue veins and interrupted by a diffused white spot and two decreasing blue submarginal 

 spots : body white ; front of palpi, prothorax, and tegulse spotted with blue-green ; head and 

 collar scarlet ; antennae deep blue. Primaries below black, washed and streaked with blue ; 

 internal border and a diffused patch on interno-median area white ; white bands nearly as 

 above : secondaries saffron-yellow, with the costal and external borders white, the latter 

 traversed by large blue-edged black spots : body below white ; venter with lateral black 

 spots. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 



North India. 



MILLERIA, H.-Sch. 



Milleria fuliginosa. (Plate LXXXIIL fig. 6.) 



Cyclosia fuliginosa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ret. ii. p. 418. n. 8 (1854). 



Primaries above smoky brown, with two longitudinal purple costal streaks ; a blue spot 

 at base ; a central angulated belt of whitish spots, and a subapical series of eight small white 

 dashes : secondaries smoky brown, with blue-green basal area and veins ; outer border black, 

 spotted with blue-green and whitish spots ; a group of yellowish squamose spots in and 

 beyond the end of the cell ; abdominal border yellow : body greenish blue ; head and collar 

 scarlet. Primaries below with the base and veins broadly blue-green ; white markings 

 broader and more numerous than above : secondaries yellow, with the base, cell, costal 

 margin, outer border, and veins black; five blue-bordered submarginal white spots and a blue 

 costal streak : body below whity brown ; collar as above and anterior coxae scarlet. Expanse 

 of wings 2 inches 5 lines. 

 Silhet. 



* The " Gynautocera adalifa " of Doubleday, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xix. p. 76 (1847), 

 is identical with Milleria virginalis of Herrich-Schaffer, which it will supersede. 



