196 GEOMETRID;E. 



Acidalia submonstrata, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 772. 

 Acidalia tephrosaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 643 ; C.fyS. no. 3950. 

 Luxiaria fasciosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 254 ; C. $ S. no. 4007. 

 Luxiaria intensata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 254 ; C. $ S. no. 4008. 

 Luxiaria hypaphanes, Hmpm. III. Het. viii, p. 125, pi. 153, 

 figs. 7, 14. 



c . Yellowish brown or purplish grey-brown, irrorated with 

 fuscous ; head rufous ; both wings with traces of a spot at end of 

 cell ; a sinuous medial line ; postmedial and submarginal waved 

 lines, which are prominent and rufous on underside, the two outer 

 being conjoined into a diffused rufous and brown band ; post- 

 medial and marginal series of specks on upperside ; underside with 

 the apex of fore wing often whitish. 



$ . The ground-colour of upper and undersides much paler. 



Fig. 109. Luxiaria contigaria, <* . \. 



The form hypaphanes from the Nilgiris is violaceous grey in 

 both sexes, fore wing with the apex more falcate, and with three 

 dark marks on the costa ; the ground-colour of underside whitish. 

 One male has a dark blotch on inner margin of fore wing beyond 

 middle. Submonstrata from the Khasis and Borneo is similar, but 

 with rounded apex to fore wing. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Khasis : Mahableshwar ; Nilgiris ; 

 Ceylon ; Sumatra ; Borneo. Exp. 38-46 millim. 



SECT. II. Hind wing of male with the costal and subcostal nervures 

 slightly arched ; the cell normal and with vein 3 from the 

 angle. 



A. (Probithia). Outer margin of Jnnd winy angled at rein 4 

 and non-crenulate. 



3220. Luxiaria exclusa, Wlk. Cat. xxi, p. 320 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. Hi, 



pi. 202, tig. 5, and pi. 215, fig. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 4006. 

 Ilt-iiierophila praeterouns, Wlk. Cat. xxi, p. 320. 

 Acidalia iniprnnata, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 771. 

 Macaria obstataria. Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 92B. 

 Bithia lignaria, Wlk, Cat. xxxv, p. 1600. 



Both sexes coloured as in the female of contigaria. Fore wing 

 with a <l:irk lunule on the costa at the postmedial series of specks, 

 which is then very oblique and continued on hind wing as an 

 antemediil line; hind wing with the series of specks medial 



