SWINHOEA. METACHBOSTIS. 325 



slightly hairy. Fore wing of nearly even width throughout ; the 

 apex nearly rectangular ; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the 

 areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from cell. 



2065. Swinhoea vegeta, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 475, pi. 28, fig. 14; 



C. Sf S. no. 3043. 



(S > Head and collar fuscous ; thorax vinous ; abdomen fuscous. 

 Fore wing vinous brown, the base 

 pale, the outer two - thirds much 

 darker ; an indistinct short pale 

 subbasal line; a black speck above 

 inner margin near base; obliquely 

 waved antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines. Hind wing fuscous 

 underside with indistinct cell-spot 

 Swinhoea vey eta, <$ . \. and postmedial line. 



Hob. Abyssinia ; Punjab ; Bombay 

 Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus METACHKOSTIS. 



Metachrostis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 204 (1818). 

 Ozarba, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 684 (1865). 



Type, M. velox, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Japan ; China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Java ; Australia. 



Palpi long and upturned, reaching above vertex of head ; 

 thorax and abdomen without tufts. Fore wing with veins 

 8, 9, 10 stalked ; vein 7 sometimes almost or quite touching 8, 

 and forming an areole. 



SECT. I. (Metachrostis}. Ground-colour purplish or brownish 



grey. 



A. Antennce strongly ciliated in male. 



2066. Metachrostis miasma, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii, p. 73, pi. 145, 



tig. 16. 



Dark purplish grey. Fore wing crossed by some eight or nine 

 ill-defined and diffused fuscous-black waved lines ; the orbicular 

 a black speck, the reniform a black spot. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 19 millirn. 



2067. Metachrostis egens, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 68, pi, 151, fig. 9 ; 



C. Sf S. no. 2216. 



Metachrostis contingens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 412 ; Butl. III. 

 Het. vii, p. 65, pi. 129, tig. 13. 



