388 GEOMETRIES. 



3747. Pomasia denticlathrata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1803, p. 367. 



c? . Pale yellow ; head, thorax, and abdomen spotted and reticu- 

 lated with red-brown. Fore wing with some fifteen waved red- 

 brown lines connected in many places by patches of red-brown. 

 Hind wing with some eight waved red-brown lines. Both wings 

 with waved marginal line; the cilia pale and red-brown. Under- 

 side orange-fulvous. 



Hob. Khasis ; Nagas. Eccp. 21 millim. 



3748. Pomasia pnlchrilinea, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1675. 

 Leiocera axis, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, p. 153, pi. 170, fig. 22. 

 Pomasia moniliata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 367, pi. 32, tig. 9. 



Fawn-colour. Fore wing with double subbasal, ante- and post- 

 medial waved white lines arising from ochreous specks on the 

 costa ; a submarginal crenulate white line with four black lunules 

 on it below apex and a black streak crossing it above inner margin. 

 Hind wing with antemedial and medial waved white lines ; three 

 submarginal lines with some black specks on them. 



Hub. Khasis ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus GYMNOSCELIS. 



Gymnoscelis, Mob. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) vii, p. 656 (1867). 



Type, G.pumilata, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Palsearctic, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint clothed with hair and reaching 

 beyond the frontal tuft, the 3rd prominent ; antenna of male 

 ciliated ; hind tibia with a terminal pair of spurs, and rarely with 

 a very minute medial pair ; abdomen with slight dorsal crests. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6 from upper angle ; 10, 11 stalked, 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 7, 8, 9 to form the areole, and 11 anastomosing with 12. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 7 to 

 beyond middle of cell. 



SECT. I. Hind tibiae with the medial pair of spurs absent. 

 A. Palpi reaching far beyond the frons; fore winy of normal breadth. 



a. Male without thick tufts of leaden-coloured scales at extremity 

 of mid and hind tibice. 



3749. Gymnoscelis ectochlora, Hmpm. Ill Het. viii, p. 118, pi. 162, 



%. 19. 



Olive-green, irrorated with black. Fore wing with the broad 

 medial area rufous, irrorated or suffused with black and edged by 

 waved black lines, angled on median nervure and vein 4; a pnlo 

 waved sulunaruiiial line with the area beyond it rufous, with a 

 pale diffused patch at middle. Hind wing with the rufous area 



