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GEOMETRIC JE. 



the costa fuscous brown to near apex ; the basal area covered with 



indistinct whitish and dark 

 lines; an oblique white 

 line from upper angle of 

 cell to inner margin before 

 middle, enclosing a black 

 triangular patch between 

 it and the broad oblique 

 medial white band, which 

 bears a black discocellular 

 Fig. 172. Eubolia duplicata, $ . \. striga, the area beyond it 



black to the sinuous post- 

 medial white line, which has whitish and fuscous lines beyond it ; 

 outer area blackish, with a pale straight submarginal line. Hind 

 wing whitish, with slight dark marks at apex and anal angle and 

 fine marginal line. Underside suffused with rufous ; hind wing 

 with discocellular speck and postmedial line. 

 Hab. Chumbi, Tibet. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus SCOTOSIA. 



Scotosia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Hamt. iii, p. 259 (1829). 

 Philereme, Hiibn. Verz. p. 330 (? 1818), non descr. 

 Triphosa, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii, p. 261. 



Type, S. rliamnata, Schiff., from Europe. 



Range. Nearctic and Palaearctic regions ; Afghanistan ; N.W, 

 Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nilgiris. 



Palpi clothed with hair and reaching well beyond the frontal 

 tuft ; antennaB of male usually simple ; hind tibiae with two pairs 

 of spurs ; wings with the outer margins crenulate. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from middle of discocel- 

 lulars ; 6 from just above angle of cell; 10 anastomosing with 11 

 and then with 8, 9 to form the double areole. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above lower angle, the 

 diacocellulars being highly angled ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with 7. 



SECT. I. (Scotosia). Male with the claspers large and exserted. 



3618. Scotosia dubiosata, Wlk. Cat. xxv, p. 1352 ; C. $ S. no. 3818. 

 Scotosia sideritaria, Oberth. Et. Ent. x, p. 34, pi. 1, fig. 13. 



Grey-brown. Fore wing of 

 male with the retinaculum con- 

 sisting of a corneous plate 

 with a pit in the wing-mem- 

 brane over it ; indistinct double 

 subbasal and antemedial waved 

 lines ; a broad medial slightly 

 darker band with waved grey 

 edges and traces of waved 



Fig. 173. Scotosia dubiosata, rf . \. 



lines on it; two imliMim-t dark \\aved lines beyond the band 



