CRYPTOLOBA. 



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SECT. II. (Isoloba). Fore wing with vein 10 stalked with 11, and 

 anastomosing with 8, 9 to form the areole. 



A. Hind wing with vein 5 from above angle of cell. 

 a. Antennce of female bipectinated. 



3599. Cryptoloba cinerea, JButl A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 228 ; id. Ill 



Het. vi, pi. 120, fig. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 3805. 



Leaden grey. Fore wing irrorated with a few black scales; 

 the costa ochreous, with black strigse ; pale rufous waved ante- 

 and postmedial lines arising from prominent short black lines from 

 the costa, and with a few dark specks on them. Hind wing paler. 

 Underside of hind wing and costal area of fore wing pale, with 

 dark irroration. 



The Dharmsala form is smaller, darker, and with the hind wing 

 dark. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Sikhim. Exp. 20-22 millim. 



b. Antennce of female simple. 



a'. Fore iving with vein 11 not anastomosing with 12; 

 hind wing of male with a lobe at base. 



3600. Cryptoloba bifasciata, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 345, pi. 32, 



iig. 18. 



Ochreous, irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with rufous ante- 

 medial line ; a black spot on discocellulars ; oblique rufous post- 

 medial line, with a diffused fuscous blotch beyond it ; an oblique 

 fuscous streak from apex. Hind wing pale, with slight fuscous 

 irroration ; a speck at end of cell ; both wings with the cilia 

 chequered yellow and black. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 30 millim. 



b'. Fore wing with vein 11 anastomosing with 12 ; hind wing 

 of male with a fold at base. 



3601. Cryptoloba indicaria, Guer. Voy.Dekss., Hist. Nat. p. 97, pi. 26, 



fig. 4. 

 Eupithecia bifasciata, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 118, pi. 152, fig. 13. 



c? . Pale olive-green, irrorated and in parts suffused with fus- 

 cous. Fore wing with antemedial fuscous band diffused inwards 

 and bounded by a sinuous line ; an. olive and fuscous medial band 

 bounded inwardly by a sinuous black line, with a bidentate black 

 mark at lower angle of cell, and two black dentitions on its outer 

 edge at veins 3, 4 ; a diffused submarginal band ; black specks on 

 costa before apex, on outer margin below apex, and at middle. 

 Hind wing with diffused subbasal band; the outer half almost 

 covered by diffused conjoined postmedial and submarginal bands. 



Hab. Nilgiris. Exp. 20 millim. 

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