380 GEOMETRIC. 



D. (Thera). Antennae of male bipectinated. 



3729. Larentia consimilis, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 326 j Butl.Itt.Het. 

 vii, pi. 137, fig. 14 ; C. &f S. no. 3891 A. 



Greyish fuscous. Fore wing with two indistinct antemedial 

 lines angled below the costa ; two dentate postmedial lines highly 

 angled beyond the cell, the area between them usually darker, 

 especially from costa to vein 4 and above inner margin ; an oblique 

 zigzag streak from apex meeting the angle of the postmedial baud ; 

 an indistinct pale waved submarginal line. Hind wing paler, with 

 indistinct highly curved postmedial line. The veins of the fore 

 wing are often streaked with black. 



Hob. Afghanistan ; KW. Himalayas. Exp., <$ 32, $ 40 millim. 



Trichopleura. Staud. Stettin, ent. Zeit. xliii, p. 68 (1882), praeocc. 



). 70. 



Genus PHOTOSCOTOSIA. 



Photoscotosia, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 328. 

 Trichopleura, Staud. Stettin, ent. Zeit. xliii, 

 Lasiogma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 



Type, P. miniosata, Wlk. 



Range. Siberia ; Japan ; Himalayas ; Sylhet. 



Palpi clothed with hair and reaching just beyond the sharp 

 frontal tuft ; antennae of male ciliated ; hind tibiae with two pairs 

 of spurs. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell, 10 

 anastomosing with 11, and then with 8, 9 to form the double 

 areole. Hind wing with the costa much arched, especially in male ; 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from above middle of disco- 

 cellulars, which are oblique ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 7 

 to beyond middle of cell, then much curved. 



SECT. I. Fore wing of male with a fringe of long hair below 

 median nervure on underside. 



3730. Photoscotosia miniosata, Wlk. Cat. xxv, p. 1354; C. fy S. 



no. 3821. 

 Photoscotosia stigmatica, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 680. 



c? . Red-bro\vn. Fore wing with indistinct double subbasal and 

 antemedial slightly waved lines, the latter with a prominent sinuous 



Fig. 179. Photoscotosia miniosata, $ . {. 



black line beyond it : a black striga on discocellulars ; two indistinct 

 slightly waved medial lines, with an irregularly crenulate black line 



