170 GEOMETRID MOTHS 



SUBFAM. OENOCHRCnriNAR. 



1. Sarcinodes debitarta Wlkr. 



Avxima debiiaria Wlkr.. List Lep. Ins., xxvi. p. 1527, 1862, Darjeeling'. 



Bakonp— 1 9 . 



Males of tliis species are sent quite common ly in collections 

 fi'om North India and Swinhoe fCat. Lep. Het. Oxf. Mns.. 

 ii. p. 820) I'ecords it from Rinnati-a, but there are no females 

 in any collection to which T have access. Dr. Mjober^'s 

 specimen is different in npperside coloration from the male, 

 but I for})ear to pronounce npon its status without further 

 material. 



2. ETT^TELEA LFDOVTCATA Gucn. 



Eiinielea hidovicata Guen., Spec. Gen. Lep., ix, p. 393, 1858, Ceylon. 



Mt. Murud (?)— ] 9. 



Tliis species is distributed, in various races, throughout 

 nearly the entire Indo- Australian re^non. As at present 

 understood, the name-typical race ransfes from India to 

 Formosa and to the Malay Peninsula and Sunda Islands 

 (see Reitz Macrolep., xii. p. 31), but further subdivision may 

 prove ]>ossible. 



8. Der A:\rBiLA propaoes sp. n. 



rT 27 mm. 



Head white. Palpus unusually lonp" for the i:enus, the 

 second and third joints each measiu'innf fully 6 nmi. ; white, 

 partly suffused on outer side with light-brown, the terminal 

 joint mostly dark. Antennal ciliation rather lonq" fonly one 

 antennal stump remaining" in the unique tvpeV Thorax and 

 abdomen mostlv white : abdomen tufted beneath. Lesfs mostly 

 white ; hind tibia verv Ions-, dilated, fringed above ; (tarsus?). 



Fore wing shaped about as in zinraria Guen. ; iridescent 

 white; costal margin light grey-brown, more broadly even 

 than in lumenaria TTh.-Gey. : cell-dot large, subtriangnlar 

 black ; lines light-brown ; nnteraedian angled outward behind 

 SC. then oblique inward, forming large spots on M~M" 

 and at hind margin ; postmedian almost as in lumenaria but 

 with, the spots larger; subterminal macular, as in litmenaria , 

 but almost touching tei'meu ; terminal dark line fine and 

 slight. Hind wing with RC" well separate ; markings nearly 

 as in lumenaria but thicker; subterminal nearly as on fore 

 wing, rather smaller. 



