. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELiEODES. 357 8168. Elseodes virescens. Eremohia virescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) W. p. 243 (1879), c?- Euplejcia oohroargyra, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 727, $. S. Head and thorax greenish yellow mixed with red-brown; tegulse with a reddish brown band near tips, the patagia reddish brown at extremities, the metathorax with reddish brown band; abdomen ochreous, the crests tipped with reddish brown. Fore wing yellow tinged with green ; subbasal line silvery white defined at sides by red-brown, waved, from costa to submed
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELiEODES. 357 8168. Elseodes virescens. Eremohia virescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) W. p. 243 (1879), c?- Euplejcia oohroargyra, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 727, $. S. Head and thorax greenish yellow mixed with red-brown; tegulse with a reddish brown band near tips, the patagia reddish brown at extremities, the metathorax with reddish brown band; abdomen ochreous, the crests tipped with reddish brown. Fore wing yellow tinged with green ; subbasal line silvery white defined at sides by red-brown, waved, from costa to submedian fold, some red-brown beyond it on costa and above vein 1; antemedial line silvery white defined at sides by red-brown, angled outwards below costa, then oblique to submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1, a red-brown streak from it to postmedial line in submedian fold ; orbicular a small round silvery white annulus with red-brown centre; reniform a miniite silvery white lunule on a red-brown patch which extends to. the orbicular; postmedial line silvery white defined on each side by red-brown forming two small spots. Fig. 92.—ElcBodes virescens, (}. \. at costa, a patch on its outer side above and below vein 6 and patches on each side of it between veins 4 and 2, oblique and sinuous to discal fold, then incurved and waved; subterminal line formed by silvery white lunules defined on outer side by red-brown marks and on inner side also below costa and veins 3 and 2, incurved at vein 5 and bent inwards at vein 2 ; cilia chequered red-brown and white. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown; the under- side with brown discoidal lunule and postmedial reddish bar from costa. 5 . Hind wing uniform dark brown. Hah. Madagascae, Antananarivo (^Kingdon), 1 S type, Betsileo {Cowan), 1 c?. Exp. 36 millim. Type f $ ocliroargyra ra Coll. Mabille. 8169. Elaeodes acatharta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXIV. fig. 1.) <S . Head and thorax pale diill olive-green mixed with grey and brownish; ant
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