72 GEOMETEIDiE. 
veins are white; a submarginal slender white line, only sharply defined on the median 
interspaces; apical half of the external area flesh-coloured internally, and dark blood-red 
externally, the two colours being separated by the submarginal line ; a pyriform white apical 
patch ; outer margin beyond the middle narrowly white, and spotted throughout with dark 
brown ; fringe coloured to correspond with the colours on the wing next to it : body above 
snow-white, the collar grass-green. Under surface pearly white : wings with the veins and 
borders snow-white : primaries with the costa, discoidal area, a broad patch beyond the cell, 
and some spots at apex grass-green ; black marginal dots as above : secondaries with two 
distinct and two indistinct apical spots ; margin spotted with black ; a broad brown patch on 
the fringe. Expanse of wings 39 millim. 
India {Milne). 
The variety C. fdicitata differs only in being 5 millimetres more in expanse of wings, and 
in having a narrower area between the postmedian and submarginal lines on the secondaries ; 
it was obtained in Moreton Bay, Australia. 
Comibsena pictipennis. (Plate CXVII. fig. 12.) 
Comibfena pictipennis, Butler, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 215. n. 40 (1880). 
Wings above sap-green, indistinctly striated with pearly white : primaries with the basal 
five eighths of the costa yellowish, the remainder snow-white ; an oblique white line across 
the basal fourth; a small black dot at the end of the cell; an oblique, internally sinuated, 
externally diffused, tapering, discal, snow-white belt, terminating at the first median branch ; 
a slightly undulated submarginal white line ; a slender white marginal line interrupted by black 
dots between the veins; fringe tipped with white ; a plum-coloured spot with ferruginous inner 
margin near the external angle : secondaries wdththe costal area pearly white ; a large quadrate 
subapical patch, the veins at apex, the anal angle, and anal three fifths of abdominal fringe 
plum-colour ; a small annular marking of the same colour at the end of the cell ; a large dull 
golden arched band resting on the outer margin, and extending up into the lower radial and 
interno-median interspaces; outer margin towards apex plum-coloured, spotted with blackish; 
a very slender silvery-white marginal line; apical friuge plum-coloured, intersected with 
white ; centre of fringe somewhat golden ; anal fringe plum-coloured : front of head laky 
brown ; palpi and back of head greyish ; antennae white ; collar bright green in front, yellow 
behind; tegulse yellow in front, green behind; thorax white in front, yellow in the middle, 
green behind; abdomen green towards the base, with white dorsal line, white behind. Under 
surface opaline greenish white, with faint indications of the margins of the plum-coloured 
spots ; black discocellular and marginal dots : primaries with bright green costal border : 
secondaries with rosy fringe. Expanse of wings 36 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale) . 
In some respects resembling the preceding species. 
