DIOMEA. 23 



Genus DIOMEA. 



- Diomea, Wlk. Cat, xiii, p. 1109 (1857). 



Type, D. rotundata, Wlk. 



Range. Japan; China; Himalayas, Assam, Ceylon, and Burma. 



Differs from Capnodes in the 2nd joint o palp, not reaching 

 above vertex of head and being roughly scaled ; the metathorax 

 and proximal segments o abdomen with more or less prominent 

 dorsal tufts. Pore wing with the apex more rounded. Hind 

 wing with the anal angle not truncate. 



SECT. I. Male with the legs not tufted ; the tufts on 

 nietathorax and abdomen very slight. 



2769. Diomea cremata, Butl A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 295. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown. Fore wing dark brown 

 suffused with fuscous ; traces of subbasal, antemedial, medial, and 

 postmedial curved crenulate lines ; the last with an ochreous-white 

 spot on it at costa ; a sinuous submarginal line ; a marginal series 

 of dark specks. Hind wing reddish brown, with ante- and post- 

 medial waved lines ; a marginal crenulate line. 



Hab. Japan ; Dharmsala ; Simla ; Khasis. Exp. 30-36 millim 



SECT. II. Fore legs of male with a tuft of long pink hair from the 

 joint of coxa and femur; mid tibiaB fringed with pink hair ; 

 hind tibia3 with very long black hair ; the metathoracic and 

 abdominal tufts more developed. 



2770. Diomea rotundata, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1110 ; Hmpsn. Ill Net. 



ix, pi. 165, fig. 6 ; C. $ S. no. 2755. 



cJ . Differs from cremata in the markings being slightly less 

 distinct. Hind wing with a pale or pinkish patch on inner 

 margin above anal angle. 



.Fig. 9. Diomea rotundata, 



$ . Eeddish brown ; hind wing with a black spot at end of cell. 

 Hab. Simla ; Sikhim ; Ceylon ; E. Pegu. Eocjp. 36 millim. 



2771. Diomea fabularis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 257. 



$ . Dark fuscous red- brown. Fore wing with a short subbasal 

 pale line, a sinuous antemedial line, and a postmedial line very 

 highly angled below costa, then oblique to inner margin all 



