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ANOPLOSCELES; GHLORISSA. By L. B. Prout. 
distinc- 
taria. 
lad a. 
nigropunc- 
tata. 
aquarna- 
rina. 
rubripicta. 
prouti. 
aphelcs. 
nigripunc- 
tata. 
pretiosaria. 
discessa. 
punctifim- 
bria. 
H. distinctaria Walk. (Yol. 4, pi. 2 d) is the commonest of the bright-green group of Hemithea and has 
been described in Vol. 4 because it reaches Tibet, but cannot properly be regarded as Palaearctic. Face red, 
costal edge ochreous. crests blackish, on a purple-mixed patch, postmedian line slender, on hindwing weakly 
bent. N. India, especially Sikkim, the type-locality. — laeta Prout (13 k) is a puzzling form, or extremely 
similar species, almost entirely without the dorsal ornamentation of the abdomen, thus remarkably like some 
forms of Ghlorissa pretiosaria Stgr. (Vol. 4, pi. 2 c). Apparently replaces distinctaria in the Khasis. 
H. nigropunctata Warr. (Vol. 4, pi. 2 d). Near distinctaria, but with slightly more acute apex, black 
cell-dots and white terminal dots, besides some slight differences in the lines. Described from E. Pegu, 
known also from the Khasis and even from Japan (see Vol. 4, p. 23). A race (?) from Ceylon perhaps 
differs in the weaker cell-dots, but awaits confirmatory material. 
H. aquamatina limps. (13 k). Smaller than nigropunctata and of a less vivid, more translucent 
green, the abdominal maculation much lighter (whitish mixed with light red), the lines more dentate or 
punctiform, the postmedian with dark dots edging the white ones proximally. N. India, from Dharmsala 
(loc. typ.) to the Khasis. 
H. rubripicta Warr. (13 k). Easily distinguished from nigropunctata by the broadly red (black-clotted) 
costal edge of the forewing, the enlarged cell-dots, the red vein-dots which accompany the lines and the 
dark line on middle of abdominal margin of hindwing. Sikkim (type) and the Khasis. 
B. Antenna of J pectinate. 
H. prouti Rothsch. (12 h). This species, described as a Gelasma, necessitates — on account of its hind- 
tibial armature and crested abdomen — the erection of a new section in Hemitliea. Scaling at least as thin 
as in aquamarina, hindwing more crenulate, markings weaker, the white cell-dots accompanied by slightly 
less transparent green shades. S. W. Sumatra: Korintji, at an altitude of 7300 feet. 
H. apheles sp. n. (12 h). In structure, scaling and coloration near prouti. Antennal pectinations of 
the outer series continuing to about the 32nd joint, those of the inner (as in both series in prouti) to about the 
39th. Margin of hindwing much smooother than in prouti, scarcely waved, the tooth at 3rd radial small. 
Costal edge of forewing much less dark-speckled ; other markings scarcely discernible, excepting a white mark 
on 2nd discocellular of hindwing, recalling Thalassodes; only with the lens minute whitish postmedian vein- 
dots can be made out, rather more distally placed than those of prouti. Tosari, Java, 5. Juli 1910 (E. A. 
Cockayne), type in coll. Prout, not very fresh, but easily recognizable now that its affinities have been 
worked out. 
76. Genus: Aiioplosceles Warr. 
A derivative of Hemithea, differing in the scarcely ciliated antenna of the $ and the absence of 
spurs on its hindleg. $ unknown, but probably 4-spurred. Erected for one species, which remains very rare. 
A. nigripunctata Warr. (12 i). Facies of a strongly-tailed Hemithea, but not likely to be mistaken for 
any other known species. Described from W. Java, but has since been received from Borneo. 
77. Genus: Chlorissa Steph. 
Although — as has been pointed out in our other volumes — this is scarcely more than a subgenus 
of Hemithea and intergrades with it in the Palaearctic and Indo-Australian Regions, it probably represents 
the phylogenetically older division, being found also in North America and Africa unaccompanied by true 
Hemithea-, on the other hand, in the Indo-Australian Region it does not extend beyond India and Formosa. 
Abdominal crests slight or wanting; hindwing not or only weakly angled, never tailed. 
Ch. pretiosaria Stgr. (= gelida Btlr.) (Vol. 4, pi. 2 c) is probably Palaearctic more than Indian, but is 
by no means confined in India to Kashmir and the Punjab, being fairly common in parts of Sikkim. Smaller 
than H. distinctaria, without crests, the line on the hindwing almost straight. Wings more Hemith ea -shaped 
than in most Ghlorissa, probably a true link. 
Ch. discessa Walk. (= lataria Walk., frequens Btlr., solidaria auctt. nec Guen.) (13 1). A small species, 
with rounded ar scarcely bent hindwing, perhaps a pale form of the common African albistrigulata Warr. 
(Vol. 16, p. 28, pi. 2 k). Ceylon to N. India, also recorded by Joannis from Tonkin. 
Ch. punctifimbria Warr. (13 1). Similar to discessa but with the hindwing more angled, the fringes with 
dark dots opposite the veins. Face greenish (in the adjacent species reddish). Central and N. India, the type 
from Bombay. 
