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This species chiefly diifers from T. confuciaria of China and Japan in the more elegantly 
falcate form of its primaries : the colours of all these species as given in Walker^s descriptions 
are due to fading. 
LOXOCHILA, Butl. 
LoxocMla smaragdus. (Plate CXVII. fig. 5.) 
Tanaorhinus smaragdus, Bathr, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 128. u. 36 (1880). 
Loxochila smaragdus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 615. 
Bright green, above sea-green, wings with snow-white fringe ; a discal slightly irregular 
series of snow-white spots ; an olive-green stripe, bordered externally witli white, slightly 
undulated in the primaries just beyond the middle : primaries with a second angular line, 
edged internally with vv-hite at basal fourth ; an olive-green discocellular dot. Body in the 
type ochreous, with the exception of the collar, a series of lateral spots on the abdomen, and 
the anal tuft ; two or three dorsal dots and the sides of the abdomen snow-white ; antennae 
with ferruginous pectinations. Wings below pale emerald-green, with an indistinct discal 
series of sap-green spots : primaries also with a straight postmedian stripe of the same 
colour; veins white j fringe sap-green tipped with white: body white, yellowish in front. 
Expanse of wings 61 millim. 
N.E. Himalayas [Lidderdale). 
GEOMETRA, Guen. 
Geometra grata. (Plate CXVII. fig. 6.) 
Geometra grata, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 129. n. 37 (1880). 
Emerald-green ; wings sparsely striated with golden orange : primaries with the costal 
margin pinky whitish, crossed by dark brown striiB and dots ; two widely separated, inarched, 
subparallcl golden-orange lines, the inner one distinctly irregular, the outer one very slightly 
so ; fringe tipped with white : secondaries with the costal border, abdominal margin, and the 
outer half of the fringe upon the outer margin snow-white ; a transverse, diffused, golden- 
orange stripe just before the middle : palpi, antennae, and front of collar pinky white ; 
abdomen creamy white, greenish at base. Under surface sericeous white, the wings showing 
a tint of green, owing to the transparency of their texture ; costal border creamy ; the 
numerous strise of the upper surface indistinctly visible; a curved greyish line just beyond 
the middle ; minute blackish discocellular dots : pectus green in front. Expanse of wings 
46 millim. 
Darjiliug [Lidderdale) . 
Nearest to G. dentisignata of Moore. 
