280 Mr. L. B. Prout on new Geometridae 



moderate blackish i proration; cell-dot black ; markings 

 grey; antemedian line ill-defined, strongly angled in cell, 

 strongly oblique posteriori}', marked with slight shades on M 

 and SM 2 ; median shade rather thick, strongly oblique from 

 middle of hind margin to R 1 , vertical to SO 5 , then oblique 

 inward but indistinct ; this shade very slightly incurved 

 between SM 2 and M 1 and between the radials, feebly dentate 

 outwards on M 2 , M 1 , and R 3 ; postmedian fine, lunulate- 

 dentate, formed about as in the allies, accentuated by small 

 dark dashes on the veins; subterminal pale grey shades 

 moderately developed, leaving the clear rather broad sub- 

 terminal tolerably distinct, formed of a series of lunules 

 which are in part almost separated by very fine darkening of 

 the veins ; terminal black spots small but sharp ; fringe in 

 proximal halt concolorous, with some black irroration (espe- 

 cially distally), in distal half paler, almost clear. 



Hind wing with termen convex, rather full about the 

 middle, but with the bend at R 3 inappreciable ; proximally 

 rather paler than fore wing, and without antemedian line, 

 otherwise with the markings continued, the median shade 

 straight or nearly so, proximal to the cell-dot, the postmedian 

 thicker than on fore wing, with the vein-dashes weaker. 



Underside paler, the fore wing, except at hind margin, with 

 strong brownish-3moky suffusions from base to median shade; 

 minute black cell-dots present ; postmedian line of fore wing 

 nearly as above, of hind wing fine and faint; subterminal 

 shades slight; terminal dots present ; fringes concolorous, 

 not irrorated. 



Khasis (native collector), type in coll. Joicey. Other 

 examples merely labelled " Assam." 



Distinguishable from atlentata, patularia, etc., by the less 

 short tarsus, spotted abdomen, sharply defined dark proximal 

 area of fore wing beneath, and by the tone of colour. Females 

 from the same source as the paratypes, and agreeing exactly 

 in the last respect, fail, however, of the other distinctive 

 characters, and have also slightly narrower wings, the termen 

 of the hind wing rather less convex, more recalling the 

 African khakiata, Warr., and can for the present only be 

 cited here with a query. 



5. Scopula segregata, sp. n. 



$ . — 23-25 mm. 



Face black. Palpus brown, mixed with black above and 

 becoming pale beneath. Vertex white. Antenna ciliate 



