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B. Palpi with the 3rd joint longer. 

 a. Hind legs of male tufted with long hair to the extremity of the tarsi. 



a'. (Felinia). Mid tibice of male with no masses of flocculent hair 

 contained in a fold. 



2425. Polydesma spissa, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 322 ; C. $ S. no. 2706. 

 Briarda decens, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1098 ; Bittl. III. Het. vi. pi. 110, 



fig. 6; C. 8f S. no. 2339. 



Grey-brown. Fore wing with numerous indistinct waved lines ; 

 an antemedial waved line dentate on vein 2 and with a diffused 

 red-brown band inside it ; a dark line on discocellulars, with an 

 ill-defined brownish patch on the costa above it ; a postmedial 

 waved line excurved beyond the cell; a triangular patch on 

 costa before apex. Hind wing with the basal area ochreous ; the 

 outer fuscous ; a pale streak at anal angle ; cilia pale at apex and 

 anal angle. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans. Exp* 

 42-50 millim. 



2426. Polydesma praecedens, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1098 ; Butl. III. Het. 



vi, pi. 110, fig. 7 ; C.&& no. 2340. 

 Briarda antecedens, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1099. 



c?. Pale reddish brown. Fore wing with numerous indistinct 

 waved dark lines ; a dark brown patch on base of costa ; a waved 

 antemedial line ; a large subtriangular medial patch on the costa 

 extending to vein 2 and bounded by the postmedial line, which is 

 recurved round its lower end and then obsolete ; a dark apical 

 patch with a black streak 011 it ; a crenulate marginal line. Hind 

 wing fuscous ; underside with cell-spot and indistinct medial line. 



5 with a dark spot on fore wing below the cell on the ante- 

 medial line. 



Hob. " India ; " Ceylon ; Sumatra. jErp., <$ 52, $ 44 millim. 



2427. Polydesma metaspila, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1032 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 154, fig. 6 ; C. $ S. no. 2296. 

 Ophiusa pallidilinea, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1832. 

 Toxocampa moola, Stoinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 459, pi. 27, fig. 10; 



C. S. no. 2297. 

 Hypsetra sordida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 414. 



Ochreous brown ; the collar black. Fore wing irrorated with 

 dark brown ; a comma-shaped black mark above inner margin 

 before middle ; faint traces of the orbicular and reniform ; a post- 

 medial ochreous brown-edged line, with a series of fuscous marks 

 beyond it. Hind wing pale, with diffused medial band ; the outer 

 area fuscous 



I fab. Poona ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Java ; Fiji. E.vp. 42 millim. 



2428. Polydesma rectivitta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 353; C. $ S. 



no. 1917. 



$> . Differs from metaspila in being darker and less uniform in 

 colour ; the collar not black. Fore wing with no spot above inner 



