MTETETA. TASTA. 



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B. (Microniodes). Hind wing with the outer margin angled 

 at vein 4. 



3100. Myrteta obliq.ua, Hmpm. 111. Net. ix, p. 139, pi. 168, fig. 21. 



$ . White ; head fulvous ; the frons white. Wings irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing with the costa brown ; a speck at end of 

 cell ; an oblique line from apex to middle of inner margin ; a sub- 

 marginal series of specks and marginal line. Hind wing with 

 subbasal and medial oblique lines; a diffused submarginal band of 

 specks ; a marginal line. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 52 millim. 



SECT. II. Antennae of male serrate ; hind tibiae not dilated and 

 with no tuft of hairs ; hind wing with the outer margin pro- 

 duced to a slight lobe at veins 3 and 4. 



3101. Myrteta subpunctata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 387, pi. 31, fig. 1 1. 



c? . Differs from simpliciata in the postmedial line of both wings 

 being nearer the submarginal, and with dark specks on it at the 

 veins ; cilia white. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 45 millim. 



SECT. III. (Micronidia). Antennae of male almost simple ; hind 

 tibiae with a long tuft of hair on outer side from base ; hind 

 wing with the outer margin lobed. 



3102. Myrteta simpliciata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 646; C. $ S. 



no. 4019. 

 Micronidia unipuncta, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 387. 



White. Fore wing with some brown striae from the costa; 

 antemedial, medial, postmedial, and submarginal slightly waved 

 brown bands ; a marginal dark line. Hind wing with broad medial 

 band meeting the slightly waved postmedial and submarginal bands 

 near anal angle ; a marginal dark line ; two black spots at the lobe ; 

 cilia of both wings pale fuscous. 



The form unipuncta has one spot on the marginal lobe of 

 hind wing. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus TASTA. 



Tasta, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1569 (1862). 



Dissopthalmus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 219 (1880). 



Type. T. micacea, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi very slender, porrect, and not reaching beyond frons ; 

 antennae simple ; legs naked. Fore wing with the apex rounded ; 

 vein 3 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked from before upper angle. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from angle of cell. 



