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Show 1885.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M S O M A L I - L A N D . 765 by a black line ; marginal line and fringe as in primaries ; anal creamy white, spotted with black and silver; a large black spot at the angle ; tails golden-orange at base, otherwise black with terminal white fringe. Thorax above slaty-grey, collar brown, head white, abdomen clay-brown banded with white. Below, pectus white, legs yellowish ; venter white, with a central interrupted clay-brown streak. Expanse of wings, <S 29 millim., $ 32-35 millim. d 2 • Less than 80 miles S. of Berbera.-Thrupp. 2 • Bunder Maria, 27th April, 1884.-Yerbury. CHLOROSELAS, gen. nov. Allied to Spindasis; of the same form. Primaries with a black patch of thickened scales at the end of the cell and at base of second and third median branches ; costal vein extending to second third of costal margin; subcostal with only three branches, the first emitted at some distance before the end of the cell, the second and third emitted together from a long footstalk, and terminating upon the costa just before the apex ; upper radial emitted from the anterior angle of the cell, lower radial from the centre of the discocellulars, which are transverse ; second and third median branches emitted near together; secondaries apparently with only one tail; neuration as in Spindasis : palpi broader, more curved, and with shorter terminal joint than in Spindasis; antennae more slender and with more abruptly formed club ; anterior legs more slender. Type, C. esme-ralda. 26. CHLOROSELAS ESMERALDA, sp. n. (Plate XLVII. fig. 4.) Primaries above with the basi-internal half, excepting the costal border, brilliant flashing emerald-green, changing in certain positions to purple and in others to greyish flesh-colour, the basal half of costa constantly of the latter colour, apical half smoky-brown; a black patch at the end of the cell : secondaries brilliant green, with the costal border rather broadly smoky-brown, abdominal border pale bronze-brown ; aual lobe golden-orange, spotted on each side with black and silver. Body above blue-black ; head whitish, palpi white, antennae annulated with white, club tipped with orange, abdomen banded with whitish. Wings below pale sandy testaceous, the wings spotted all over with embossed silver and black : primaries with whitish internal area ,• a silver spot near the base of the costal border, about six silver spots in the cell, an irregular transverse series of six beyond the cell, two confused discal series of silver and black spots; a submarginal series of partly black-edged silver spots and a nearly marginal series of black dots ; fringe white : secondaries with four or five silver spots at the base ; a series of four across the basal third followed by slender black dashes, then a forked discal series of silver spots intermixed with six black spots; submarginal series and dots as on primaries; orange, black, and silver lobe as above : body below white. Expanse of wings 21-22 millim. Bunder Maria, 30th April, 1884.-Yerbury. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1885, No. L. 50 |
