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NOCTUID^!. 



line. Hind wing whitish, suffused with brown ; waved antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial lines ; a marginal dark line. 

 Hub. Sikhim ; Poona ; Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



Fig. 51. Goniocraspedum mistura, c?. 



Genus MECISTOPTERA. 



Meeistoptera, Hmpsn. Ill Het. ix, p. 134 (1893). 



Type, M. griseifusa, Hmpsn. 



Range. Eastern Himalayas ; Manipur ; Poona ; Ceylon. 



Palpi long, obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint thickly clothed with 

 scales, the 3rd long and slender ; a short frontal tuft ; antennae 

 with long cilia in male, short in female ; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled ; tibiae nearly naked. Fore wing long and narrow ; 

 the apex produced and acute ; the outer margin oblique and 

 excurved at middle ; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form an 

 areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell ; 5 from below 

 the middle of discocellulars ; the outer margin truncate from vein 

 4 to anal angle. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with the outer margin angled at vein 4 

 and non-crenulate. 



3012. Meeistoptera griseifusa, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 134, pi. 168, 



fig. 14. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 with the basal half vinous 

 brown, running out to an 

 angle at lower end of cell and 

 defined by a white line; a 

 white lunule on discocellu- 

 \. lars ; the outer area purplish 

 grey, irrorated with brown, 

 and with brown patches below apex and above outer angle ; the 

 cilia brown. Hind wing dark fuscous. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Eaep. 26 millim. 



3013. Mecistoptera duplicilinea, n. sp. 



cJ . Reddish brown. Fore wing with an indistinct dark ante- 

 medial line ; a white spot in cell and speck at end of it ; a double 

 oblique postmedial straight line filled in with purple and with 



Fig. 52. 



