204 GEOMETRID ^lOTHS 



pale brown, somewhat variegated, the patagia and tegulae 

 predominantly deeper brown and blackish ; beneath paler. 

 Hind tibia moderately dilated with hair-pencil ; abdominal 

 spine slender. 



Fore wing with SC" ()iiite shoitly stalked with SC^, 

 anastomosing moderately with C ; fovea not quite so large as 

 in variegata Moore, partly scaled above; ground-colonr 

 whitish-brown, scarcely showing except in a narrow band 

 proximal to the postmedian line and in the apex, otherwise 

 sniTiised with Mikado-brown (Ridgway, pi. xxix") ; markings 

 mnch as in versicolor Proiit (Sar. Mns. Jonrn., ii, p. 181). 

 Hind wing with a tinge of ochre, but jniich less pronounced 

 than in versicolor : postmedian Une straighter ; a rather 

 ill-defined terminal (in places subterminaD band of grey 

 shading, about 2.-5 mm. in widtli. Underside less ochreous 

 than in versicolor, the markings of upperside showing in grey ; 

 both wings dark-bordered, the fore wing with clear apical and 

 midterminal spots. 



Mt. Muriid, 6000-6500 feet, October. 



The type of versicolor is a 9 from Mt. Kinabahi. It is just 

 possible, though extremely unlikely, that this much smaller 

 insect is its cf . 



112. BoARMiA cosTARiA Guen. 



Bonniiia cosfarin Guen., Spec. G^n. L^p., ix, p. 242. 1S.5K, Sarawal? 

 T.io Matu— 1 (f ; Mt. Dulit, 3000 feet— 1 cf • 

 Rti}}(jc. Borneo, Sumatra, Java. 



113. BOARMIA LTOPTTLARTA Swinh . 



Boarmia liorfiJaria Swinh., Fascia. ^lalay ZooL, i. p. ^1, 1^03. 

 Relangor. 



Mt. Murud, November— 1 cT : Mt. Dulit, 3000 feet— 1 cf. 



Local in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. A race (?) in 

 Assam. 



114. B0ARM[A SUBDETRACTARFA Prout. 



Boarmia detractaria Walk., List Lep. Ins., xxi, p. 385, 1860 (nom. 

 praeocc), Sarawak. 



Boarmia subdetractaria Prout, Nov. Zool., xxx, p. 211, 1923 (Nom. 

 nov.). 



Lie Matu, December— 1 cT : Mt. Dulit, 3000 feet— 3 cT- 

 A rather common Sarawak sf)ecies, otherwise known to me 

 from the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



