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1508. Earias insulana, Boisd. Faun. Madag. p. 121, pi. 16, fig. 9 



C. $ 8. no. 500. 

 Earias tristrigosa, Butl. P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 614 ; C. $ 8. no. 503. 

 Earias smaragdinana, Zell. Lep. Caff"r., K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1852, 



p. 79. 

 Earias frondosana, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 204. 

 Earias sirnillima, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1775. 

 Earias siliquana, Staint. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) v, 1867, p. lxxxix. 

 Earias gossypii, Frauenfeld, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wieri, 1867, 



p. 791. 

 Earias biplaga, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1773. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing pea- 

 green, the last with three angled 

 indistinct lines — medial, postinedial, 

 and submarginal. Hind wing semi- 

 diaphanous white ; the outer margin 

 slightly fuscous below the apex. 

 Some African specimens have the 

 Fig. 88. area between the first two lines of 



Earias insulana, rf. \. the fore wing filled in with fuscous 



brown towards inner margin. 

 Hab. Throughout Africa ; Mauritius ; Baluchistan ; N. and S. 

 India : Burma ; Siam. Exp. 22 millim. 



1509. Earias fabia, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 355, fig. H. 

 Aphusia speiplena, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 770 ; C. 8f 8. no. 502. 

 Earias hiigeli, Rogenh. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1870, p. 872; 



C. $ 8. no. 501. 

 Micra partita, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 799. 



Differs from insulana in the head and thorax being ochreous 

 white ; fore wing without lines, but with broad white bands along 

 costa and inner margin, leaving only the middle third green. 



Hah. Punjab ; Calcutta ; Granjam ; S. India ; Ceylon ; Java 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



1510. Earias chromataria, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 204; C. $ 8. no. 499. 

 Earias limbana, Snell. Tijds. Ent. xxii, 1879, p. 97, pi. 8, fig. 2. 

 Earias fervida, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1774. 

 Earias fulvidana, Wallengr. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 143. 



Head and thorax pale green • palpi pinkish. Fore wing pale 

 green ; the basal part of the costa suffused with pinkish yellow ; 

 two red-brown specks towards end of cell; an irregular brown 

 marginal band with yellow on its inner edge. Abdomen and hind 

 wing white. 



Hob. Throughout Africa, India, and Ceylon ; Japan ; Java. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



