154 GEOMETRIC. 



SECT. I. Male with the retinaculum small. 



3103. Tasta micaceata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1570. 

 Dissopthalmus iridis, Buti. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 219. 



Grey; wings with the basal 

 two-thirds suffused with purple 

 and irrorated with silver scales. 

 Fore wing with a series of silvery- 

 blue subrnarginal spots, largest 

 towards costa. Hind wing with 

 silvery-blue submarginal band ex- 

 Fig. 84.-7Wa micaceata, 4 . *. panding at middle and embracing 



a black-pupilled ocellus with 



yellow iris and black outer line. Underside purplish white, with 

 dark marginal band. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Borneo. Exp. 32 milliin. 



SECT. II. Male with the retinaculum a large corneous plate. 



3104. Tasta sectinota, n. sp. 



c? . Yellowish white ; head fuscous ; wings with the basal three- 

 fourths irrorated with silver ; traces of a postmedial fuscous band ; 

 a submarginal series of silver spots ; cilia silver and gold ; fore 

 wing with a fuscous patch near apex, on which is a black spot with 

 yellow outline, and divided by a yellow line. 



Hab. E. Pegu (Dolierty}. Exp. 36 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus BAPTA. 



Bapta, Steph. Brit. Ent., Haust, iii, p. 294 (1829). 

 Leucetaera, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 405 (1894). 



Type, B. Umaculata, Fabr., from Europe. 



Range. Nearctic, Palaearctic, and Oriental regions ; Solomons. 



Differs from Myrteta in the antennas of male being almost 

 simple ; hind tibiae hardly dilated. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

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

 wing with vein 3 from angle of cell. 



SECT. I. (Leucetcera). Fore wing with vein 11 stalked with 

 7, 8, 9, 10, anastomosing with 12 and then with 10. 



3105. Bapta inamata, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 755 , Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, 



pi. 185, fig. 4 ; C # S. no. 3232. 

 Acidalia simpliciaria, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 793. 

 Noreia luciferata, Wlk. Cat. xxiv, p. 1093. 



White, irrorated with black ; frous rufous. Fore wing with the 

 costa fulvous; a speck at end of cell; an indistinct line from 

 origin of vein 2 to inner margin ; a postmedial fulvous and yellow 

 line from below costa. Hind wing with speck in cell ; a fulvous 



