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then incurved and ending at tornus ; a series of small black points near 

 termen ; cilia rufous. Hindwing creamy yellow ; the base blackish ; some 

 rufous in cell ; the submedian interspace tinged with brownis-h, striated with 

 black and crossed by traces of a postmedial line with rufous patch before it ; 

 the inner margin striated with black ; the apex tinged with rufous ; some black 

 points on termen and a striga in submedian interspace. 



9. Hindwing grey thickly striated with black ; a curved diffused brownish 

 antemedial band ; postmedial line double filled in with tufous aid with some 

 black suffusion before it, oblique from costa to vein 4 where it is angled out- 

 wards, then sinuous, the area beyond it suffused with black towards costa; a 

 terminal series of small black and grey lunules between veins 7 and 1. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya ; Andamans, Port Blair; Borneo, Sarawak. 

 Exp. $ 24-26, $ 24-30 mill. 



3068a. Dir^des fonebkis, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous brown tinged with greyish ; frons whitish ; 

 ab3omen grey tinged with brown and irrorated with black. Forewiug 

 grayish suffused with brown and thickly irrorated with black to the post- 

 medial line, the terminal area much paler and slightly irrorated with black ; the 

 1st line medial, indistinct, diffused, black, oblique from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, then inwardly oblique, postmedial line diffused, black, oblique from costa 

 to vein 8, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a diffused subterminal 

 line. Hindwing greyish suffused with brown and irrorated with f u-cous ; two 

 indistinct diffused black antemedial lines from cell to inner margin ; diffused 

 curved black medial and postmedial narrow bands ; the terminal area more 

 strongly suffused with brown and with traces of a diffused subterniinal band • 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules ; the underside brownish white 

 slightly irrorated and striated with black. 



Habitat. — Bombay. Exp. 28 mill. Type in B. M. 



GEOMETRIDjE. 

 BOARMIANVE. 



3082. Urapteryx ebuleata, subsp. palniensin, nov. 



£ . Bright primrose yellow ; fore and hindwings with the band fulvous ; cilia 

 bright fulvous ; hindwing with scarlet centre to lower spot at base of tail. 

 Habitat.— Madras, Palni Hills 7000' (Campbell). Exp. 58 mill. 



Genus, Tristophis. Type. 



Tristophis, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool , xvii, p. 199 (1883) veneris. 



Proboscis fully develop- 

 ed ; palpi porrect not reach- 

 ing beyond the frons which 

 is smooth, rounded; antennas 

 of male laminate ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair 

 and without crests ; hind 

 tibiae with two pairs of 



Tristophis veneris $ \. 



