412 LASIOCAMPID.*:. 



915. Metanastria obliquifascia, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 263. 



<5 . Very dark red-brown ; head and thorax suffused with 

 purplish. Fore wing with an indistinct dark line from the base 

 curving up to the costa beyond the middle ; an oblique line from 

 near the apex to middle of inner margin, with an irregular series 

 of pale spots beyond it ; the area between the line and spots 

 purplish. Hind wing paler red-brown. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 50 millim. 



Genus ARGUDA. 



Arguda, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 79 (1879). 

 Radhica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 79 (1879). 



Type, A. decurtata, Moore. 



Range. Himalayas ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Philippines ; 

 Amoy ; Singapore ; Australia ; Tasmania. 



Palpi very long ; antennas with branches gradually decreasing 

 to apex. Mid and hind tibiae with minute terminal pairs of spurs. 

 Fore wing broad, the outer margin rather erect ; veins 6 and 7 

 from angle of cell ; the stalk of veins 9 and 10 short. Hind wing 

 with veins 4 and 5 from cell ; 8 almost touching 7 ; slight accessory 

 costal veinlets. 



SECT. I. (Radhica). Palpi with 3rd joint heavily fringed with hair. 

 Fore wing with outer margin irregularly waved. 



916. Arguda flavovittata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 79; C. $ S. no. 1477. 



Fig. 284. Arguda flavovittata, $. \. 



$ . Palpi blackish; head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous ; 

 a dark stripe on head and thorax, ending in a grey spot. Wings 

 brownish ochreous ; a slightly irregular anternedial dark line ; a 

 black speck at end of cell; a nearly straight postmedial line, 



