THALEEA. — COMIECENA. 
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GEOMETRINJE. 
Thalera acutissima, IFlk. (Plate CLXX. fig. 10.) 
Thalera acutissima, Wlk. Cat. xxii. p. 596. 
Expanse 1;V inch. 
Bluish grey-green ; frons chocolate. Fore wing with indistinct ante- and postmedial 
pale slightly oblique straight lines ; hind wing with the postmedial line and both wings with 
pale cilia. 
Thalera albomaculata. (Plate CLXX. fig. 19.) 
Expanse \^ inch. 
Female. Allied to T. uniformis, Hmpsn. The shaft of antennje and vertex of head 
white; thorax and abdomen green. Wings bright green; the costa o£ fore wing white ; a 
postmedial series of small white spots on the nervules o£ both wings, which on the fore 
wing terminates in a large white blotch on the inner margin. Cilia fuscous, with white 
spots at the nervules. Underside whitish. 
Thalassodes leucospilota, Moore. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 3 (larva).) 
Thalassodes leucospilota, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 427, pi. 194. fig. 4. 
Larva. Pale yellowish green, suffused with brownish purple above, forming anteriorly 
an indistinct dorsal stripe. Legs and claspers dull purple. Head deeply bifid. 
Feeds on Ficus and pupates between leaves loosely spun together. 
Comostola meritaria, Wlk. (Plate CLXX. fig. 6.) 
Geometra meritaria, WJh. Cat. xxii. p. 522. 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Head ochreous white ; thorax and abdomen whitish, the former tinged with blue-green. 
Wings blue-green, with an ochreous ringed chestnut blotch centred by silvery scales at end 
of cell; a chestnut-and- silvery marginal line; cilia ochreous. Fore wing with chestnut 
ante- and postmedial specks on inner margin ; the costa ochreous. Hind wing with three 
postmedial chestnut specks. 
Comiboena biplagiata, Moore. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 18 (larva).) 
Comiboena biplagiata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 435. 
Larva. Uniform yellowish drab. The sides of each somite are produced into fleshy 
processes, upon which the larva fastens small pieces of withered leaves and sticks as a 
disguise. It rests with the anterior somites doubled underneath its body. 
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