336 GEOMETRIDJE. 



SECT. II. (Myostoma). Palpi slender ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 fore wing with the outer margin shorter and excurved at 

 middle. 



3597. Dysethia straminea, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 347. 

 Ochreous, with slight brown irroration. Fore wing with traces 



of a waved antemedial line arising from a brown spot on costa ; a 

 medial spot on costa ; traces of a slightly sinuous postmedial line 

 ending in a brown spot on inner margin. Hind wing paler, with 

 speck at end of cell and indistinct curved submarginal band. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus CRYPTOLOBA. 



Crvptoloba, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 343. 

 Isoloba, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 345. 



Type, C. cerata, Moore. 



Ranye. Himalayas; Nilgiris. 



Palpi porrect, clothed with hair, and reaching well beyond the 

 sharp frontal tuft ; antennae of male bipectinated to near apex. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. Hind wing of 

 male with the inner area reduced to a small lobe, or rarely a fold 

 at base; 2 running to the functional anal angle, 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 connected with 7 by an 

 oblique bar. 



SECT. I. (Cryptoloba). Fore wing with vein 10 anastomosing with 

 11 and then with 8, 9 to form the double areole ; hind wing 

 with vein 5 from above angle of cell ; antennae bipectinated 

 in both sexes. 



3598. Cryptoloba aerata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 654 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3758. 

 Cryptoloba minor, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 344. 



tf . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing clothed with fuscous 

 and yellow scales. Fore wing suffused with golden yellow and 

 with sinuons antemedial, crenulate postmedial, and lunulate sub- 

 marginal yellow lines ; oblique antemedial and medial, and curved 

 submarginal and marginal pale blue spots ; a blue spot at end of 



ce N Hind wing ochreous, 

 thickly irrorated and blotched 

 w ^ ^ uscous 5 both wings with 

 the cilia orange and fuscous. 

 Underside of fore wing fus- 

 cous J tne costal and outer 

 areas suffused with pale golden 



Fig. 106.-03pfofofta.rate, rf. \. ? ellow ' . Hind wing whitish, 



irrorated with black and suf- 



fiM-d \\ilh golden yellow ; the veins yellow; a black spot at end 

 of cell ; postmedial and submarginal diffused fuscous lines. 

 llal. Sikhim ; Khusis, 7000-10,000 feet. JExp. 30 milliin. 



