436 GEOMETBIDvE. 



black. Fore wing with antemedial very oblique dentate fuscous 

 line ; a speck on discocellulars ; a fuscous shade below apex. Hind 

 wing with subbasal, medial, postmedial, and traces of submarginal 

 waved lines ; a discocellular speck. 

 Hab. Poona. Exp. 20 millim. 



B. Wings extremely long and narrow. 



3893. Craspedia relictata, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1629 ; C. $ 8. no. 3947. 

 Lycauges demissus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 456 ; C. Sf S. no. 3756. 



$ . Ochreous. Fore wing with very slight rufous tinge ; both 

 wings with speck at end of cell ; very oblique diffused postmedial 

 shade and submarginal series of specks connected by a line. 



Hab. Campbellpur; Karachi; Mhow; Nilgiris. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus ACIDALIA. 



Acidalia, Trtitschke, Eur. Schmett. v, 2, p. 438 (1825). 



Eois, Hilbn. Verz. p. 308 (? 1818). 



Sterrha, Hiibn. Verz. p. 309, non descr. (nee Herr.-Schaff.}. 



Arrhostia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 311. 



Hyria, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Hamt. iii. p. 292 (1829), praocc. 



Ptychopoda, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii, p. 305. 



Janarda, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 265 (1888). 



Andragrupos, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 119 (1891). 



Lophophleps, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 125. 



Type, A. ochrata, Scop., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi hardly reaching the frons. Fore wing usually somewhat 

 acute and produced at apex ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 1 

 stalked from before upper angle, 11 anastomosing with them to 

 form the areole. Hind wing with the outer margin rounded ; vein 

 3 usually from before angle of cell ; 6, 7 stalked *. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. (Acidalia). Hind tibice of male not dilated, and with the medial 

 spurs absent in both sexes. 



a. fore iving of male ivith the inner margin normal. 

 a'. Fore wing moderately broad and slightly produced at apex. 



3894. Acidalia chotaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 858, pi. 57, fig. 14 ; 



C. $ S. no. 3925. 

 Eois lineata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 149, pi. 169, fig. 10. 



Reddish ochreous, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; frons fuscous. 

 Fore wing with curved antemedial line ; speck at end of cell ; a 

 minutely waved postmedial line, with black speck on it at costa and 

 diffused" fuscous patch beyond it between vein 4 and inner margin ; 



* Except in the male of A. purpurea. 



