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basal and outer areas ; very indistinct ante- and postmedial waved 

 dark lines ; a submarginal series of dark spots ; a prominent den- 

 tate marginal dark line. Hind wing fuscous ; the costa pale. 

 Hab. Nilgiri plateau ; Ceylon. Exp. 45 millim. 



264. Stauropus apicalis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 59 ; C. 8f 8. no. 1180. 



S . Fore, wing comparatively longer than in the preceding 

 species, Head and collar fuscous brown ; thorax grey ; abdomen 

 fulvous brown, the extremity grey. Fore wing grey, irrorated 

 with fuscous scales ; a brown streak on the middle of the costa, one 

 postmedial, and one subapical below the costa. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous brown. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 62 millim. 



Sect. III. (Netria). Both sexes with antennas pectinated. 



265. Stauropus viridescens, Wlk. Cat. vi. p. 1504 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 ii, pi. 120, figs. 2, 2a (larva and pupa). 

 Netria griseata, Hmpsn. III. Set. ix, ined., pi. 160, fig. 14. 

 Stauropus virescens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 404 ; C. 8f 8. no. 1134. 



c? . Head and thorax green ; abdomen brown, with the extre- 

 mity green. Fore wing green ; two indistinct subbasal waved 

 dark lines, two antemedial, three postmedial, and one submarginal ; 

 the orbicular and reniform spots paler. Hind wing fuscous brown. 

 Underside paler. 



5 with the fore wing suffused with brown on basal area, and 

 on medial area between the first antemedial and last postmedial 

 lines. 



The form griseatus, from Trincomali, Ceylon, has the female very 

 much paler, with hardly a trace of green suffusion ; fore wing with 

 the ground-colour greyish white, the bands brown ; hind wing 

 pale and but slightly suffused with fuscous. 



Larva thickened at middle ; anal segment bifid ; green, with a 

 dorsal purple line ; the spiracles white ; a sublateral yellow line ; 

 guise, fore legs, and mid claspers purple. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Ceylon ; Java. Exp., J 50-70, $ 82- 

 100 millim. 



266. Stauropus pallidifascia, n. sp. 



<$ . Head and thorax brown, grizzled with white and the central 

 part of collar fringed with white ; abdomen paler. Fore wing 

 with the basal area grey-green, bounded by a double antemedial 

 brown line ; a double postmedial line excurved between veins 

 2 and 4, the area between the two double lines pale ochreous 

 suffused with brown scales, and with the orbicular and reniform 



