438 GEOMETRIES. 



and from vein 5 to inner margin. Hind wing with the base dark ; 

 a diffused medial line : a sinuous postmedial line, with diffused 

 fuscous-grey patches beyond it at apex and from vein 5 to inner 

 margin. 



$ with the diffused patches extending to outer margin, and on 

 hind wing covering the whole outer area. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 14 millim. 



b. ( Andragrupos). Fore wing of male witli the inner margin developed 

 into a large hooTc, extending almost completely across the hind 

 wing ; vein 1 distorted. Hind wing in both sexes with the outer 

 margin slightly excised between veins 4 and 6. 



Acidalia violacea, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii, p. 119, pi. 152, 

 figs. 15, 16. 



Pale rufous, irrorated with vinous brown. Fore wing with cell- 

 spot ; an indistinct antemedial line angled below costa ; sinuous 

 medial and postmedial lines terminating on the hook in male ; the 

 outer area suffused with vinous and with a pale sinuous subrnarginal 

 line. Hind wing with antemedial diffused line ; cell-speck ; slightly 

 sinuous medial line and traces of a postmedial line. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 20 millim. 



B. Hind tibice of male dilated with a fold and tuft of hair from lose 

 and without spurs. 



&,. Hind tibice of male with a tuft of hair from extremity covering 

 the tarsus. 



a' (Ptychopoda). Fore wing with the apex not produced to an acut 



point. 



a 2 . Fore wing of male with no patch of long hair on underside of 

 inner margin. 



8900. Acidalia actiosaria, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 750; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 200, fig. 11 ; C. $ S. no. 3913. 

 Acidalia profanaria, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1628 ; C. Sf S. no. 3945. 



Ochreous, suffused with purplish pink : head dark purple. Pore 

 wing with the costa purplish ; both wings with waved antemedial, 



medial, and postmedial lines,, 

 the medial line being often 

 developed into a prominent 

 fuscous line, or there may be 

 purplish suffusion between it 

 and the postmedial line ; pro- 

 minent dark cell-specks ; a- 

 pale waved submarginal line 



Fig. ^l.- Acidalia actiosaria, rf. \. and series . of dark specks at 



base of cilia. 

 Hab. Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 20-24 millim. 



