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BOAEMIID^. 
the primaries^ with reddish internal and white external margins ; discocellulars blackish ; a 
black undulated marginal line ; an interrupted undulated white submarginal line : centre of 
thorax and dorsal abdominal tufts tinted with pink, each tuft placed in the centre of a slender, 
blackish, fl- shaped marking. Under surface sericeous creamy white ; wings crossed by a 
broad, irregular, yellowish-edged, dark brown discal belt : primaries with a diffused streak 
connecting the belt with the outer margin upon the radial interspaces ; an oblique black 
discocellular litura. Expanse of wings 52 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale) . 
Hypochroma muscicoloraria. (Plate CXVI. fig. 4.) 
il3pochroma muscicoloraria, Waller, Cat. Lej). Het. xxvi. p. 1543 (1862). 
Pale pea-green : wings crossed beyond the middle by a sinuous dentated darker green 
line, commencing with a brownish spot on costa of primaries, these wings also with a second 
line just before the basal third; a dark discocellular lunule and a pale sinuated submarginal 
stripe on all the wings : under surface yellowish cream-colour, all the wings with a 
black spot at the end of the cell and a broad black-brown discal belt. Expanse of wings 
53 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale, i^c). 
The colours (" pale olive-green, whitish beneath •") of Walker^s description are due to 
fading : the colouring of the upper siirface gradually changes until it becomes ochraceous in 
all delicately coloured green Geometrites. 
BOARMIA, Treit. 
Boarmia plumalis. (Plate CXVI. fig. 5.) 
Boarmia plumalis, Butler, Ann. ^» J/«//. Kat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 126. n. 31 (1880). 
Whity brown, mottled with smoky brown ; two widely sinuated central black-brown 
lines, the outer one dentate-sinuate, and followed by a similar but less defined line or stripe ; 
an undulated white submarginal stripe, bounded internally, towards costa of primaries and 
anal angle of secondaries, by large blackish spots ; a marginal series of black lunules : 
primaries with a subbasal arched blackish line ; two ill-defined parallel blackish stripes at 
basal fourth : antennae widely plumose, the pectinations being extremely long and curved 
outwards ; back of collar and posterior half of abdomen black, anus testaceous. Under 
surface whity brown ; wings with blackish discocellular lunules, a dusky postmedian undu- 
lated line, and traces of a dusky submarginal line ; front of pectus brownish. Expanse of 
wings 70 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 
