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occupying the whole medial area except the costa, and widest 

 towards inner margin. Underside orange-red, with a fuscous 

 patch on fore wing below end of cell. 



Hob. Hongkong ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Khasis ; Sibsagar ; Nagas ; 

 Ceylon ; Andamans. Exp. 32-34 millim. 



3157. Hypochrosis sternaria, Guen. Phal ii, p. 537 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3708. 



Patruissa pyrrhophgeata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1691. 

 Geometra oinexata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1752. 

 Omiza schistacea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878. p. 851. pi. 53, fig. 12 ; 



C. $ S. no. 3219. 

 Patruissa ocellata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 448. 



Grey-brown ; the wings with slight brown striae. Fore wing 

 with a highly irregular oblique medial browner band, broad 

 at costa, its inner edge indented at lower angle of cell, its outer 

 edge recurved upwards and narrowing at vein 5 and indented at 

 vein 2 ; some brownish suffusion on middle of outer area. Hind 

 wing with a dentate line with brown suffusion on its inner side 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin. Underside orange ; the 

 cell and outer area of fore wing reddish. 



The form schistacea is greyer and without striaa ; the band of 

 fore wing narrower and without brown inside it; underside of 

 fore wing with the red not extending into cell; Unexata from 

 Borneo is more rufous, with the band broader and more irregular, 

 and with an ill-defined curved submarginal band on each wing. 



Hob. Assam ; Tenasserim ; Borneo. Exp. 42-46 millim. 



B. Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head. 



3158. Hypochrosis pulchraria, Roths. Nov. Zool. p. 540, pi. xii, 



fig. 10. 



c? . Purplish or whitish grey, slightly irrorated with black ; palpi 

 tinged with rufous ; f rons blackish ; thorax and second segment of 

 abdomen banded with green. Fore wing with a green streak on 

 base of median nervure ; a spot below middle of costa ; a large 

 dark sap-green patch from just below apex to near base of inner 

 margin, its upper edge curved, its lower angled at vein 4 ; 

 traces of a waved submarginal line ; a black line on margin just 

 below apex and a fuscous patch on outer area below middle. 

 Hind wing with green spot on inner area before middle in con- 

 tinuation of the patch of fore wing ; three medial green specks 

 or a band on inner area; traces of a waved submarginal line. 

 Underside orange-red ; fore wing with the costal area and hind 

 wing with the basal area yellow ; a fuscous patch near outer area 

 of fore wing. 



Hob. Khasis ; Tenasserim. Exp. 34-42 millim. 



