. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ISOEROPUS. 183 to inner margin, its outer edge excurved beloV middle. Hind wing orange, with broad terminal black band narrowing to tornus. Hah. Madagascar, Fianaraatsoa (Gowan), 2 2 ? type. Exjy. 38 millim. Genus CHRYSORABDIA. Type. ChrysorahMa, Butl. Traioa. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357 viridata. Proboscis presenb ; palpi obliquely uptiunied, extending to just beyond frons; antennffi of male ciliated; tibiiB with the spars moderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Pore wing long and narrow; rein 2 f
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ISOEROPUS. 183 to inner margin, its outer edge excurved beloV middle. Hind wing orange, with broad terminal black band narrowing to tornus. Hah. Madagascar, Fianaraatsoa (Gowan), 2 2 ? type. Exjy. 38 millim. Genus CHRYSORABDIA. Type. ChrysorahMa, Butl. Traioa. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357 viridata. Proboscis presenb ; palpi obliquely uptiunied, extending to just beyond frons; antennffi of male ciliated; tibiiB with the spars moderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Pore wing long and narrow; rein 2 from before middle of cell, curved at base; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 absent; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 7,8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell; 3, 4 stalked or from cell; 5 absent; tlie diseo- cellulars almost entirely aborted and the cell open, a recurrent vein in cell from angle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 from before middle of cell. Sect. I, Fore wing of male with an oblique patch of audroconia on vein 1 almost met by an oblique streak from end of cell; hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. A. Thorax black viridata. B. Thorax yellow bivitia, 377. Chrysorabdia viridata. Liihosia viridata, Wlk. xxxi. 225 (1864); Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 19, pi. 2. f. 1; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 74; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. Gnophria strigata, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xsxiii. p. 353 (1872). c?. Head and tegulse yellow; palpi, frons, and antennae black ; patagia yellow edged witb black ; thorax black; abdomen yellow, the dorsum greyish. Pore wing yel- low, the costa, a broad fascia below costa expanding towards termen, and another on vein 1 narrow at base and narrowing to termen, Fig. 101. blackish with metallic green on Chrysorabdia viridata, 2 • \- them at base and beyond the (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) ^^^^^^^^ f^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^_ conia. Hind wing pale yellow. 5 . Anal tuft blackish at base. Fore wing with a greenish-bla
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