614 CATALOGUE OF 



DlPHTEBA DECEPTURA. 



Mas. Alba; caput nigro notatum ; palpi fusco cincli ; thorax 

 nigro subconspersus ; abdomen fusco- cinereum ; alee anticce 

 lineis plurimis nigris deviis interrttptis deniiculatis aut 

 undulatis, basi spatioque medio fuscis, orbiculari et reniformi 

 albis maximis nigro marginalia; posticce flavescente-cinerece, 

 lineis duabus undulatis margineque exteriore fuscis. 



Male. White. Head with a black mark between the eyes* 

 Palpi brown in the middle part. Thorax slightly speckled with 

 black. Abdomen and under side brownish cinereous. Legs with 

 black bands. Fore wings with numerous black, denticulated or 

 undulating, very irregular, and more or less incomplete lines ; base 

 and middle part brown, the latter including a white space ; mar- 

 ginal lunules black ; fringe with blackish marks ; orbicular and 

 reniform marks white, black-bordered, very large, the former round, 

 the latter very much excavated. Hind wings yellowish cinereous, 

 with two undulating lines and the exterior border diffusedly brown. 

 Length of the body \\ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



DlPHTERA ATROVIRENS. 



Mas et foem. Nigro-viridis ; caput apud oculos viride ; palpi 

 erecti, articulo 3o brevissimo ; antennce pubescentes ; thorax 

 albo conspersus, iegulis albo marginatis ; abdomen nigro- 

 cinereum; alee anticce nigro conspersce et nebulosce, lineis 

 tribus nigris dentatis viridi marginatis, lituris basalibus 

 parvis albis, lituris duabus discalibus albo submarginatis, \a 

 subrhomboidali, 2a reniformi, linea marginali e lunulis albis ; 

 posticce nigro-cuprece, fimbria albido punctata. 



Male and female. Blackish green, tinged with cinereous 

 beneath. Head white about the eyes. Palpi erect, not rising 

 higher than the vertex ; third joint very short. Antenna? minutely 

 pubescent. Thorax speckled with white ; the four tegulae bordered 

 with white. Abdomen blackish cinereous. Fore wings speckled and 

 clouded with black, with three transverse dentate black lines which 

 are bordered with pale green, with a few small while marks at the 

 base, with two partly white-bordered marks in the disk, the first 

 somewhat rhomboidal, the second reniform ; marginal space some- 



