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outer margin ; the costa near apex, a short dash beyond the top of the reniform spot, two 
subapical streaks, and an apical dash blackish brown : thorax reddish brown, greyish in the 
middle. Primaries and pectus on the under surface pale pinky brown : secondaries and venter 
stramineous, the latter darker than the wings. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale). 
NYCTEOLID^. 
EARIAS, Herr.-Sch. 
Earias frondosana. (Plate CV. fig. 1.) 
Earias? frondosana, WaR-er, Cat. Lep. Het.. xxvii. p. 204. n. 5 (1863). 
Primaries above brilliant sericeous grass-green, crossed in the middle by two subparallel 
arched stripes of slightly darker green; a third abbreviated stripe near to outer margin 
towards the external angle : secondaries pearly greyish white, slightly brownish towards outer 
margin and at base of fringe; remainder of fringe, costa, and abdominal border pure white : 
thorax green ; abdomen wliity brown. Under surface silvery white ; costa and external area 
of primaries and outer margin of secondaries suffused with cupreous ; fringe of primaries 
greenish. Expanse of wings 21 millim. 
North India. 
TYANA, Walk. 
Tyana callicMora. (Plate CV. figs. 2 & 3.) 
$ . Tyana callichlora, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1776 (1866). 
(J . Primaries above emerald-green, reticulated with whitish ; base snow-white, edged 
externally with dark blood-red ; margin of costa towards the base of the same colour ; costal 
border and inner margin yellow ; a dark blood-red spot at origin of first median branch ; 
a marginal series of six elongated snow-white sj^ots, edged internally with dark blood-red ; 
fringe yellow, rosy at base : secondaries sordid white, clearer at the borders : head snow- 
white, with a red- brown band between the antennae, which are dull rose-red with white 
edges to the joints ; collar snow-white, with a red-brown line on each side in front ; tegulse 
snow-white, speckled behind with red-brown ; thorax green, with a red-brown-edged white 
spot on each side at the back ; abdomen whity brown. Under surface pure white. Expanse 
of wings 40 millim. 
? . Chiefly differs from the male in having a broad internally undulated sienna-red or 
chocolate-coloured external border, with yellow inner edge on the primaries, and in its larger 
and snow-white secondaries and abdomen. Expanse of wings 39-40 millim. 
Darjiling {dtkinsoii ^ Lidderdale) . 
