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dark fuscous, with the cilia ochreous. Underside with traces of a 

 medial pale band and submarginal series of specks to both wings. 

 Hab. Bombay. Exp. 28 millirn. Type in B. M. 



2080. Metachrostis transversa, Moore. Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 57, pi. 150, 



%. 15 ; C.Sf S. no. 1911. 



c? . Differs from rectifasda in being dark fuscous ; abdomen 

 with grey fringes to the segments. Fore wing with an indistinct 

 antemedial line; the medial band with a dark line towards its 

 outer edge instead of the brown shade; the submarginal line 

 whitish, with but slight traces of the dark patches on each side of 

 it ; the cilia grey. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 22 millirn. 



2081. Metachrostis punctigera, WU&. Cat. xxxii, p. 685; Hmpsn. 



III. Het. viii, pi. 143, tig. 6 ; C. Sf 8. no. 2129. 

 Gramniodes excavata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 973 ; C. $ 8. no. 2677. 



Head and thorax purplish red- 

 brown ; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing purplish brown, with five in- 

 distinct brown lines before the 

 middle, often almost obsolete ; an 

 erect medial line, beyond \vhich 

 the whole outer area is suffused 



Metachrostis p^lyera, <f . }. w >* W* chestnut; the reniform 



with its lower halt surrounded by 



black specks ; a double postmedial ochreous line, acutely angled 

 below the costa, then straight and oblique to inner margin ; three 

 ochreous costal specks towards apex; an irregularly waved sub- 

 marginal pale line. Hind wing fuscous ; both wings with a fine 

 pale marginal line. Underside of hind wing irrorated with 

 ochreous ; a cell-spot, and postmedial and submarginal lines. 



In some specimens vein 7 of the fore wing almost touches 

 8 and 9. 



Hab. Japan ; China ; Dharmsala ; throughout the Bombay and 

 Madras Presidencies ; Australia. Exp. 26-32 millim. 



2082. Metachrostis bipars, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii, p. 75, pi. 145, 



fig. 2. 



cJ . Differs from punctigera in the fore wing having the black 

 marks round the reniform more prominent ; the postmedial line 

 slightly undulated between the angle and inner margin ; the sub- 

 marginal line dentate. 



$ with the cilia pinkish. 



Hab. Nilgiris. Ejcp. 30 miliiin. 



