322 GEOMETRIES. 



Genus IOTAPHORA. 



lotaphora, Warr. Nov. Zool p. 384 (1894). 

 lotaphora, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 168. 



Type, /. iridicolor, Butl. 



Range. Tibet; Sikhim; Khasis. 



Palpi porrect and hairy ; a rounded frontal prominence ; an- 

 tennaa of male bipectinated, with short stiff branches ; hind tibiae 

 dilated with a fold containing a tuft of hair. Pore wing with the 

 apex arched ; vein 3 from the angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 

 free. Hind wing with the margin crenulate ; vein 3 from close to 

 angle of cell ; 5 from above middle of discocellulars. 



3573. lotaphora iridicolor, Butl A. M. N. H. (5) vi. p. 227 ; id. 111. 



Net. vi, pi. 113, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. no. 3101. 

 Metrocampaa dmirabilis, Oberth. Bull Soc, ent. Fr. 1883, p. Ixxxiv. 



<3 . Pale orange-yellow ; palpi black at sides. Fore wing with 

 a black spot at base of costa, which is whitish ; a curved ante- 

 medial orange line; a broad medial band; a prominent black 



Fig. 156. lotaphora iridicolor, rf. |. 



lunule on discocellulars ; both wings with a postmedial orange line 

 excurved between veins 2 and 4, and a series of submarginal black 

 streaks on the veins and in the interspaces. 



Hob. Tibet; Sikhim; Khasis. Exp. 56 rnillim. 



Genus ALEX. 



Alex, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1753 (1862). 

 Gamoruna, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 265 (1888). 

 Geoglada, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 184. 



Type, A. nigrozonata, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Borneo. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint reaching beyond the sharp frontal 

 tuft and clothed with hair, the 3rd long and naked. Fore wing 

 somewhat produced and acute at apex ; vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell; 5 from middle of discocellulars; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 

 stalked and anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 near angle of cell ; 5 from above middle of discocellulars. 



