418 GEOMETRIC. 



3837. Asthena albosignata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 253 ; C.fyS. no. 3918. 



c? . Very pale red-brown. Fore wing with very numerous in- 

 distinct dark waved lines which form dark specks on the veins and 

 leave a whitish space at lower angle of cell ; antemedial, post- 

 medial, and submarginal indistinct chestnut lines. Hind wing 

 with the ground-colour whiter ; two indistinct antemedial lines ; 

 two more prominent medial lines and two submarginal, which form 

 dark spots on the veins and have some chestnut on them. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus POLYNESIA. 



Polynesia, Warr., Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 4. 

 Placotome, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 395 (1894). 



Type, P. sunandava, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Travancore ; Ceylon ; Andamans. 



Palpi slender, obliquely upturned, and reaching vertex of head ; 

 antennae of male minutely ciliated ; hind tibiae of male with a 

 terminal pair of small spurs ; female with two pairs of spurs. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from or from 

 above angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked from upper angle, or 

 with a minute areole at their base. Hind wing with the outer 

 margin produced to points at veins 7 and 4 ; the cell very short ; 

 veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 on long stalks ; 5 from above middle of 

 discocellulars ; 8 from close to end of cell, then much curved. 



SECT. I. (Polynesia). Fore wing with the apex not truncate. 



3838. Polynesia sunandava, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 657 ; Moore, Lev. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 200, fig. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 3985. 

 Cambogia jeriferata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1588. 



Bright yellow ; the head marked with rufous ; shaft of an- 

 tennae white ; tegulae with 

 rufous patches irrorated with 

 silvery scales ; wings with 

 rufous-edged silver spots in 

 very ill-defined series, those 

 below the costa of fore wing 

 forming a very ill-defined 

 Polynesia sunandava, J . \. fascia. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Travancore ; 

 Ceylon ; Andamans. Exp. 26 millim. 



SECT. II. (Placotome). Fore wing with the apex truncate, a large 

 portion being cut off ; a small tuft from the costa, where the 

 truncation begins. 



3839. Polynesia truncapex, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 5. 



Dillers from sunandava in being rather paler yellow ; the spots 

 rather darker and more scattered. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis. Kvp. 32 millirn. 



