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VALERIODES. By W. Warren 
intensiva. below middle; hindwing purplish fuscous, rather paler towards base; in the ab. intensiva Warr. both the 
lilac grey ground colour and the green suffusion are much brighter and deeper. Like the preceding a 
Punjab species, extending into Kashmir. 
17. Genus: 'Valerio ties gen. nov. 
Distinguished from the palaearctic genus Valeria Stph. by the more slender build, the abdomen 
in particular being noticeable, the less pilose vestiture, and the thorax being clothed with hair only. 
It is essentially an Indian genus, four out of the five known species coming thence, and only one from 
Japan. Type V. icarnba Swinh. 
The $$ of this genus would seem to be rarities; out of nearly 60 specimens, including all the 4 
species, in the Tring Museum, only one is a $, belonging to the type species icarnba Swinh.) and Hampson 
records only a single $ of viridinigra. 
Sect. I . Antennae of bipectin ated to near the tip. 
hetero- V. heterocampa Moore (16 f). Forewing olive green varied with ochreous white markings, the lines 
campa. blackish, thick; the subbasal double, angled and interrupted; inner line nearly vertical, sinuous, inwardly 
pale-edged; outer line double, lunulate dentate, filled in with pale, most clearly across the submedian 
fold; subterminal line ochreous, preceded by a black costal blotch, angled outwards at vein 7, then 
straight, without darker edges, to 4, deeply dentate to 2 and preceded by black, then simply curved 
to anal angle; all 3 stigmata large, pale olive ochreous washed with rufous, set in blackish scaling; the clav- 
iform bilobed, oblique; the orbicular and reniform subquadrate, with dark punctiform spots, in the 
reniform at each end of the discocellular, the orbicular preceded by a thick olive bar and connected at 
base with an obscure patch at base of vein 2; termen with dark marks at ends of veins, thickest at 
5 and 6; fringe dark, white-dotted at ends of veins; hindwing olive fuscous in basal half, ochreous be¬ 
yond, with outer and subterminal blackish lines, the latter dentate; the termen diffusely dark. Tonglo, 
Sikkim, at a high elevation; also in Tibet. 
Sect. II. Antennae of with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. 
iridinigra. V. viridinigra Hmps. (= icarnba Hmps. nec Swinh.) (16 f). Forewing olive green, mainly suffused 
with dark olive fuscous, the terminal area always remaining clear, sometimes in the $$ with a fulvous 
tint; inner and outer lines black, conversely edged with pale olive; space between subbasal and inner 
lines diffusely clouded with dark fuscous; stigmata large, quadrate; the orbicular with pale olive lateral 
edges, connected with an ill-defined dark and light blotch below median vein; the reniform wholly pale 
olive, preceded and followed by an upright oblong dark blotch; subterminal line yellowish, emphasised 
by the deep olive fuscous shade preceding it, strongly dentate lunulate, preceded on submedian fold, like 
the outer line, by a darker blotch; the veins in places are marked with scattered bluish white scales; fringe 
blackish with scattered whitish scales; hindwing olive luteous, with blackish outer and subterminal bands, 
the latter strongly dentate; the space between them and along costa cinereous; veins blackish; the termen 
washed with fulvous; fringe as in forewing. Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, the Punjab, and Assam. 
yanelinea. V. cyanelinea Hmps. (16 f). Forewing shining pale green suffused with deep olive green and fusc¬ 
ous, the terminal area remaining green; the veins dark towards termen; the median nervure with sil¬ 
very blue scales at base and towards end; inner line silvery bine, oblique and waved; outer line silvery 
blue, outcurved above, finely dentate lunulate below; orbicular and reniform stigmata large, green, sub¬ 
quadrate, the former with dark centre, the latter with a dark spot only, sprinkled with silvery blue inter¬ 
nally, the former connected with a semicircular green spot below cell; subterminal dentate, indicated 
by the difference in tint between the brown and green shading; fringe green varied with white scales; 
hindwing slaty fuscous, mixed with bluish grey scales, and with traces of dark outer and subterminal lines; 
fringe blackish, with the tips silvery white. Sikkim, N. India. 
Sect. III. Antennae of G with serrate fascicles of cilia. 
icamba. V. icarnba Swinh. (16 f). Forewing pale olive green, the area between inner and outer lines filled 
in with olive brown and black; an irregular and broken blackish clouding in the pale band beyond sub¬ 
basal line; inner line oblique and sinuous, outwardly elbowed on median vein, preceded by a white line; 
outer line finely double, lunulate dentate, filled in with bluish grey, below vein 2 with white; orbicular 
stigma somewhat V-shaped, olive green with dark centre; reniform large, with narrow dark centre, its sides 
pale green below middle, whitish green above, coalescent at top with a whitish green subcostal streak 
reaching to outer line; claviform a broad obliquely curved blotch of pale green; the median vein and its 
branches at base slightly marked with blue grey scales; subterminal line white, dentate below vein 4, 
