442 GEOMETBID^. 



white ; thorax and abdomen suffused with crimson or purple. 

 Fore wing with the basal half either spotted with crimson and with 

 a medial band angled on median nervure, or with antemedial and 

 medial orange lines, the costal area blotched with purple; the 

 outer area either with postmedial band of crimson irroration and 

 with posttnedial submarginal and marginal series of spots, or else 

 with these markings orange and with a purple postinedial blotch 

 on costal area running along the costa to apex. Hind wing marked 

 with crimson like the fore wing, or with the markings orange and 

 with a large blotch on basal inner area, crimson near the base, 

 purple outwardly. 



$ . Entirely irrorated and suffused with crimson or dull purple, 

 except at the margin, which is orange intersected with crimson at 

 the angle of each wing, the lines dark ; fore wing with dark cell- 

 speck, hind wing with white. 



The form auricincta from Ceylon and Burma has the female 

 smaller ; the wings uniform pink, except for the orange margin, 

 and with hardly a trace of lines or cell-specks. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



B. Hind iving with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



3914. Acidalia deviaria, wik. Cat. xxii, p. 664; C. $ S. no. 3974. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson ; vertex of head and 

 shaft of antennae white ; wings with the ground-colour yellow. 

 Fore wing entirely covered with crimson except a sinuous ante- 

 medial yellow line, a large postmedial patch, and some yellow 

 between the postmedial series of patches and the submarginal and 

 marginal series of spots. Hind wing with crimson patches on 

 inner area, a spot at end of cell, a submarginal series of patches, 

 and marginal series of spots. 



Hob. Khasis ; Nilgiris. Exp. 26 millim. 



3915. Acidalia volutaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 858, pi. 56, fig. 14 ; 



C. $ S. no. 3982. 



Asthena tristicula, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 859, pi. 56, fig. 17 j 

 C. $ S. no. 3986. 



Ochreous, with dull rufous suffusion and irroration, and a slight 

 pink tinge ; both wings with dark cell-speck and obscure oblique 

 medial fuscous band ; traces of a curved postmedial line ; an obscure 

 submarginal sinuous band angled at veins 3 and 5 of fore wing ; 

 an obscure series of marginal specks. 



The form tristicula is yellower, with the medial and submarginal 

 bands more prominent ; hind wing with white cell-speck. 



Hab. Bombay. Exp. 22 millim. 



3916. Acidalia sanguinaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 641 ; C. $ S, 



no. 3581. 



Orange, irrorated and spotted with crimson ; frons white, with 



