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GEOMETRIES. 



SECT. II. Fore wing with vein 10 from the cell. 



3363. Elphos pardicelata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1544 ; Butl. III. Hct. 



vi, pi. J16, %. 7 ; C. $ S. no. 3399. 

 Elphos megaspilata, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 430. 



<3 . Differs from hymenaria in being paler and browner ; abdo- 

 men yellow below ; underside white, with black spots at end of 

 cell and submarginal black patches to each wing. 



The eastern race megaspllata is large and coloured like hymenaria 

 on npperside ; underside with a complete submarginal band. 



$ with more brown and less white than in hymenaria. 



Hal. N.W. Himalayas; Sikhim; Sylhet; Khasis. Exp., rf 

 84-110, $ 110 millim. 



Genus XANDRAMES. 

 Xandrames, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 634. 



Type, X. latiferaria, Wlk. 



Ranye. Japan ; China ; Himalayas ; Khasis. 



Differs from Elphos in the palpi being shorter; antennae bi- 

 pectinated to near apex in both sexes, the branches longer in male 

 than in female ; hind tibiae not dilated ; wings with the margins 

 non-crenulate ; fore wing with vein 10 stalked with 7, 8, 9. 



3364. Xandrames latiferaria, Wlk. Cat. xxi, p. 445. 



Xandrames dholaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 634; C. $ S. 



no. 3287. 



Xandrames sericea, Evil. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 409. 

 Xandrames curvistriga, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 431. 



Fig. 133. Xandrames latiferaria, $ . \. 



Brown ; the antennae rufous. Fore wing irrorated, striated, and 

 suffused with black ; traces of a curved antemedial black band ; a 



