FAM. GEOMETRID/E 9I 
present. Antenna rather short, with a slight or strong tuft of scales at base, in both sexes bipectinate, 
in gf with very long, in Q with moderate branches, apical extremity (about one-fifth) near!v simple. 
Pectus and femora hairy. Foretibia strongly tufted, mid- and hindtibia more or less hairy. Hindtibia 
not dilated, median spurs absent, or short, rather approximated to the terminal. Metathorax and 
abdomen crested. HIindwing with very slight costal expansion at base, frenulum in cf rather strong, 
in Q wanting, or vestigial. Forewing with costa gently arched, apex squared, termen entire, inore or 
less oblique, curved, cell less than one-half, DC? incurved, SC! free, SC? normal, R! separate, connate 
or stalked, M! separate; hindwing with apex rounded or moderate, termen rounded (very slightly 
bulged in middle) or sinuous and elbowed at R?, inner margin rather long, cell short, DC? incurved 
or rather oblique, C shortly approximated to cell, then rapidly diverging, SC? stalked (in Partita oftener 
connate), M! stalked or connate. cf genitalia with uncus bifid, gnathos terminating in a point, harpes 
parallel, plain, with socii, vinculum square, emarginate at the base, penis pestillate, narrowed. towards 
the base. 
LaRvA. — Rather stout, the segments provided with haired fleshy processes, to which it 
attaches small pieces of withered leaves and flowers, after the manner of Comibaeza and. Euchloris. Colour 
uniform yellowish drab (Hampson, //. Het. Coll. Brit. Mus. Vol. 9, p. 145, t. 176, f. 18; Green, 
Spolta Zeylanica, Vol. 1, p. 74). 
An interesting genus, standing nearly on the border-line between Groups IV and V. Turner, 
indeed, places it in the former, but states that he has not examined the 9 ; moreover he has no doubt 
worked chieHy from partita, Walker, which is clearly the most ancestral of the genus, with the strongest 
Cf frenulum, strongest crests and most primitive venation. But in spite of some variations in structure, 
not only in the respects just mentioned, but in the tibial armature, the genus is too natural to bear 
dividing. It is interesting that the genitalia show an even closer resemblance to Zuchloris than to Comi- 
baena, to which the superficial resemblance is so much greater; but all three, together with Aedossoc/lorts, 
Argyrocosma and Iulofs, form a thoroughly natural group. 
Type of the genus : Uliocnemis cassidara (Guenée) — P/horodesma casstdara, Guenée (1893). 
Geographical distribution of species. — Indo-Australian. 
SECTION I. — Hindtibial armature variable r). 
I. U. cassidara (Guenée). 
a. Uliocnemis cassidara cassidara. : N. India and China to Singapore. 
Phorodesma cassidara, Guenée, Spec. Gén. Lép. Vol. o, p. 370 (1858). 
Comuibaena cassidaria, Walker, List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. Vol. 22, p. 522 (1861). 
Uliocnemis cassidara, Warren, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 355 (1893). 
b. Uliocnemis cassidara biplagiata. Ceylon. 
Comibaena biplagiata (Walker, MS.), Moore, Lep. Ceyl. Vol. 3, p. 435/1887). 
SECTION II. — Hinditibia with terminal spurs only. 
2. U. fartila (Walker). — PI. 3, Fig. 3. India to Australia. 
Comibuena partita, Walker, List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. Vol. 22, p. 573 (1861). 
Comibaena felicitata, Walker, ibidem, p. 579 (1861). 
T'halera concisiplaga, Walker, ibidem, p. 598 (1861). 
Iodis partita, Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales/2), Vol. 2, p. 892(1888). 
Eucrostis partita, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 490 (1889). 
Uliocnemis partita, Hampson, Fauna Ind, Moths, Vol. 3, p. 488, f. 216 (1895). 
1; The race from N. India, China and the Malay Peninsula, so far as we have seen, has always terminal spurs only ; that lrom Ceylon has one 
median spur present in the 7 (perhaps sometimes both), and both present in the 2. 
