DEAPETODES. OBETA. 347 



dark brown diagonal stripes. Spins a cocoon in a rolled-up leaf ; 

 pupa covered with white bloom. 



Hob. Sikhiin Sylhet ; Nagas ; Ceylon ; Singapore. Exp., <$ 28, 

 $ 32millim. 



Genus CILIX. 



Cilix, Leach, Edinb. Encycl. ix, p. 134 (1815). 

 Euclea, Hubn. Verz. p. 149 (1818). 



Type, C. glaucata, Scop. 



Range. N. America : Europe ; Himalayas. 



Proboscis absent; antennae of male bipectinated, the branches 

 short, of female serrate. Fore wing with veins 6 and 7 from angle 

 of cell ; 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing 

 with 7 beyond the cell. 



In American and European specimens the palpi are minute and 

 porrect ; the hind tibiae have two pairs of spurs ; fore wing with 

 vein 7 separate from 8, 9, 10. In Himalayan specimens the palpi 

 are absent ; the hind tibiae have but one pair of spurs, and vein 7 

 of the fore wing is bent upwards and almost, or quite, anastomoses 

 with 8, 9, 10. 



749. Cilix glaucata, Scop. Ent. Cam. p. 221. 

 Bomhyx ruffa, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 1068. 

 Bombyx compressa, Fabr. Gen. Ins. p. 279. 

 Geometra modesta, Naturf. xiii, 27, pi. 3, fig. 4. 



Head and thorax fuscous ; collar and 

 tegulae pure white ; abdomen white, 

 slightly ringed with fuscous. Fore wing 

 pure shining white ; a large leaden patch 

 on centre of inner margin irrorated with 

 white, with some olive on its upper 



r . r 238 ^ edge and above it; a more or less obso- 



lete fuscous band from beyond the upper 

 angle of cell to the leaden patch ; raised ridges of white scales on 

 end of median nervure and origins of veins 2, 3, 4 : a submarginal 

 fuscous line from vein 6 to inner margin, with a series of marginal 

 leaden lunules beyond it ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing white, with a 

 marginal fuscous lunular band. 



Hob. N. America ; Europe ; Simla ; Dalhousie. Exp., J 24, 

 $ 26 millim. 



Genus OEETA. 



Oreta, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1166 (1855). 

 Cobanilla, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 120 (1883). 



Type, 0. extensa, Wlk. 



Eange. N. America; Japan; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Java. 



