318 GEOMETBIDjE. 



3560. Palfflomystis falcataria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 613 ; C. 8f S. 



no. 3104. 

 Metrocampa unio, Oberth. Et. Ent. xi, p. 32, pi. vi, fig. 43. 



^ . White, with a slight yellow tinge and fuscous irroration. 

 Each wing with slightly curved fuscous antemedial line; oblique 

 postmedial line joined at vein 2 by a curved line ; a curved sub- 

 marginal line. 



Hab. Tibet ; Sikhim. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus DORATOPTERA, nov. 



Type, D. nicevillei, Hmpsn. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Palpi porrect and clothed with hair; frons produced to a 

 rounded prominence ; vertex of head with a large conical tuft ; 

 antennae minutely ciliated. Fore wing with the apex extremely 

 produced and acute, the outer margin forming a continuous curve 

 with the inner margin ; veins 2, 3, and 4 curved, 3 from before 

 end of cell ; 5 very slender ; 7, 8, 9 stalked to near apex ; 10 free ; 

 11 anastomosing with 12 ; a fringe of hair on the upperside below 

 vein 1 . Hind wing with the apex arched and produced to a point 

 at vein 7 ; 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 very slender. 



3567. Doratoptera nicevillei, n. sp. 



c? . Pale ochreous ; frons brownish. Wings of a satiny texture ; 

 fore wing with pale golden-brown streaks on the costa, the \eins, 

 and in the interspaces. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 60 millim. Type in B. M. 



Fig. 153. Doratoptera nicevillei, rf. \. 



Subfamily ORTHOSTIXIN.E. 



Hind wing with vein 5 present and from about middle of disco- 

 cellulars, except in Alex ; vein 8 connected with 7 by an oblique 

 bar near base, then rapidly diverging from it. 



A small but fairly compact subfamily, not far removed from the 

 primitive Geometrid stock. 



