328 



2076. Metachrostis incondita, Butl. Ill Het. vii, p. 69, pi. 130, 



fig. 13. 



Dark reddish brown. Pore wing with ochreous specks on the 

 costa ; an indistinct band between the slightly waved subbasal and 

 antemedial lines ; a diffused medial band interrupted by the large 

 reniform spot, which is denned by an ochreous and black lunule 011 

 its inner edge, its outer edge by two sinuations of the postmedial 

 line, beyond which is a trilobed black patch ; the apical area 

 darker ; an irregularly undulated submarginal line. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous ; underside with cell-spot, postmedial and submarginal 

 lines. 



Hah. Dharmsala ; Bhutan ; Calcutta. Exp. 20-22 millim. 



2077. Metachrostis hypenoides, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 65, pi. 130, 



fig. 2. 



c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous. Fore wing pale 

 pinkish brown ; traces of subbasal and antemedial waved lines ; a 

 prominent medial sinuous line with some blackish suft'usion inside 

 it; the reniform black and triangular; an indistinct sinuous sub- 

 marginal pale line with some dark suft'usion inside it at costa. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous. 



$ . With the blackish suffusion inside the medial line of fore 

 wing forming a wide band. 



Hub. Simla ; Dharmsala. Eocp., <$ 20, $ 24 millim. 



2078. Metachrostis unduligera, Butl III. Het. vii, p. 63, pi. 129, 

 fig. 9. 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; metathorax fringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing grey-brown, with indistinct 

 waved double subbasal and antemedial lines ; the orbicular and 

 reniform indistinct, usually with a dark patch between them, from 

 which proceeds a dark line, angled below the cell, to inner margin ; 

 a pale postmedial line excurved and bracket-shaped beyond the 

 cell ; traces of a pale sinuous submarginal line. Hind wing dark 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Simla. Exp. 18-20 millim. 



2079. Metachrostis rectifascia, n. sp. 



$ . Dark brown. Fore wing with a dark subbasal mark and 

 antemedial lunule below median nervure ; a broad slightly oblique 

 medial band with black edges, its inner part ochreous, its outer 

 brown, and with a dark patch beyond it at centre ; an indistinct 

 submarginal ochreous waved line with a dark patch inside it at 

 costa, one beyond it at middle of outer margin, and a third at 

 outer angle ; a dark marginal line ; cilia ochreous. Hind wing 



