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MALACHITIS; LAELIA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
melanochlo- 
. ra - 
adalia. 
striata. 
fulvata. 
umbrina. 
ada. 
iravanca. 
cardinal is. 
atestacea. 
suffusa. 
devestita. 
M. melanochlora Hmps. (42 li). blackish-brown, head and thorax in some places marked green. 
Forewing with a green basal patch, a green streak at the base of the posterior margin and a green band beyond 
the npper angle of the cell. Hindwing browner. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. $ deviates by broader and more 
rounded wings, shorter teeth of the antennae, in the forewing by a sharply marked white undulate line from 
the apex to the anal angle. Hindwing with traces of a light submarginal band near the anal angle. India (Bhutan). 
11. Genus : Laelia Steph. 
Beside the 15 forms enumerated in the Palearctic Part of the ,,Macrolepidoptera“, Vol. II, p. 122, there 
occur 20 more forms in the Indo-Australian region, extending from North India to Australia. Hampson inserts 
in this genus quite a number of other genera, some completely, some only partly, such as Procodeca, Bicine, 
Charnidas, Repena, Odagra Wkr. and Laelioides, Hondella and Harapa Moore. As to the genus itself, which 
is confined to the palearctic and In do-Australian regions, comp. Vol. II, p. 121. 
L. adalia Swinh. (42 e). The has a red-brown head, thorax and forewing, in the $ lighter and more 
red, a black moon-spot at the end of the cell, a light streak in the basal half of it. Abdomen and hindwing 
reddish-grey, in the 2 of the lightest and most intense red. Under surface lighter. Expanse of wings: $ 21, 
$ 51 mm. Jaintia-Hills. — It may be a large form of the palearctic L. exclamationis (Vol. II, t. 19 i). 
L. striata Wilem. (42 e). <$: head and thorax whitish with a reddish-brownish Ime, at the base of the 
antennae a red spot. Palpi light brown above, blackish and reddish beneath. Forewing grevish-brown; veins, 
streaks between the veins and fringes whitish, with a pinkish-reddish tint; a series of 7 black spots in the marginal 
area, of which 4 and 6 are linear. Hind wing and abdomen whitish. Under surface whitish, in the forewing 
of a darker tint. Expanse of wings: 48 mm. Kanshirei (Formosa), in April. 
L. fulvata Hmps. (42 d). $: orange-yellow. Forewing with a sublimbal row of sharply marked, black 
spots; the spot in the area 6 is removed the farthest towards the margin, whereas those before and behind vein 
2 form a row subparallel to the posterior margin. Hindwing lighter. Expanse of wings: 52 mm. Ceylon. 
L. umbrina Moore (Vol. II, t. 20 a). deviates from L. fasciata (42 b) by the head, thorax, forewing 
and legs being dark reddish brown, the palpi ochreous, abdomen and hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 
39 mm. In India widely distributed and reaching the palearctic region in Cashmir. Vid. Vol. II, p. 122. — 
In Simla there flies a form that is yellowish-brown with blurred spots (fa. ada form, nov.), in Travancore a yellowish 
brown form, the female being ochreous (fa. travanca form. nov.). 
L. cardinalis Hmps. (42 d). <$: deviates from umbrina (Vol. II, t. 20 a) by the head, thorax, forelegs 
and forewings being of a bright scarlet or reddish-brown; hindwings black. Abdomen black with a reddish hue. 
Expanse of wings: 32 to 38 mm. Ceylon. 
L. atestacea Hmps. (= testacea Mooie, nom. praeocc.) (42 c). <$: forewing somewhat more extended 
than in some of the following species ( venosa, litura etc.). Head and thorax pale yellowish-brown. Abdomen 
brownish-yellow. Forewing uni-colouredpale yellowish-brown. Hindwing paler. Expanse of wings: 56 mm. 
Sikkim, Khasia Hills. 
L. suffusa Wkr. (= angulifera Wkr., subrufa Snell. 1879 nec 1872) (42 d). extremities ochreous, 
body and forewing white, with a faint reddish hue, the forewing with a submarginal row, posteriorly incurved 
as far as the middle of the dorsal area, of 7 black spots. Hindwing pale, towards the margin lined darker. $: 
head, thorax and forewing uni-coloured, light ochreous, abdomen and hindwing white. India, Ceylon, Java, 
Celebes, Luxon, Bago. — Larva black, with long whitish hair, with tufts of long, spatulate, black hair on the 
sides of the 1st and in the middle of the 11th segment, the 4th to 7th segments with four brown dorsal pencils, 
the 9th and 10th segments with round, whitish dorsal tubercles, one subdorsal and one sublateral yellow line, 
as well as yellow lateral streaks. Head and legs brown or black. It lives on grasses. Pupa in a rather loose, 
reddish or brownish cocoon. 
L. devestita Wkr. (= pallida Moore, lactea Moore) (42 g). <$: head, collar and legs light ochreous, 
thorax, abdomen and wings white with a very faint ochreous hue, sometimes with faint traces of a submarginal, 
curved row of black spots on the forewing. Expanse of wings: <$ 36, $ 42 mm. India, Formosa. 
