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dull crimson line from apex to inner margin beyond middle diffused 

 outwardly ; the termen tinged with crimson ; cilia whitish. Hindwing paler 

 and more thinly scaled ; traces of a curved crimson line with a more 

 prominent mark on vein 2. 

 Habitat.— Simla, (Pilcher). Exp. 20 mill. Type— In B. M. 



Genus Cybolomia. 

 Hypolais Guen. Delt and Pyr., p. 239 (1854). proce. 

 Cybolomia Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 420. 

 Type C.pentadalis. 



Range. Neotropical region ; S Europe ; W. and C. Asia ; N. W. India. 

 Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint concealed ; maxillary palpi 



with a long pointed tuft in front; 



frons flat and oblique ; antenna? 



of male lanimate ; hind tibia? with 



the outer spurs one-third length 



of inner. Forewing with veins 



3,4,5 separate at origin ; 7 straight 



Cybolomia pentadalis. <£f and well separated from 8-9. 



Hindwing with veins 3,4,5 from angle of cell ; 6,7 stalked, 7 shortly anasto- 



mising with 8. 



5196a. Cybolomia pentaoalis Led. Verb. z. b. Ver. Wien. 1855, p. 207, 

 pi. 3, f. 13. 



Brownish grey ; sides of frons and shaft of antennae above white ; pectus, 

 legs and abdomen whitish. Forewing with alternating black and white shore 

 streaks on costa ; short white streaks in base of submedian fold, in middle of 

 cell, and on the veins of the terminal area. Hindwing hyaline white, the 

 termen pale brown diffused inwards along the veins ; cilia brown at base. 

 Habitat. — Syria ; Deesa. Exp. 20 mill. 

 5197a. Metasia coniotalis, n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen grey tinged with brown and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; palpi fuscous, whitish at tips, and at base below ; antennas with 

 dark annulations. Forewing brownish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous, a 

 somewhat oblique more or less diffused antemedial black band ; a small dark 

 spot in middle of cell and discoidal annulus ; the postmedial line oblique 

 from costa to vein 5, strongly excurved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted 

 to below end of cell, sometimes with a diffused black patch in its sinus ; a 

 series of black points at base of cilia and usually a more or less developed 

 fuscous patch on middle of termen. Hindwing grey irrorated with fuscous 

 a more or less indistinct waved postmedial line excurved to near termen be- 

 tween veins 5 and 2 ; a more or less developed series of dark points at base of 

 cilia. 



Habitat. — Japan, Nagasaki (Leech) ; N. China, Zika-wy ; C. China, 

 Cbekiang (Pryer), Chang- Yang (Pratt.) ; Tibet, Yatung (Hobson) ; Kashmir. 

 Dras (Leech) ; Simla (Pilcher); Ferozpur (Nurse). Exp. 16-20 mill. Type 

 —In B. M. 



