446 GEOMETEIDJE. 



diffused fuscous band is developed inside the postmedial series of 

 specks. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Bombay ; W. Ghats ; Ceylon ; Java. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



3925. Ephyra validaria, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1607. 



lodis thalassica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 430, pi. 194, fig. 6 ; C. fy S. 



no. 3532. 



Sea-green; the frons blackish. Fore wing with the costa 

 ochreous ; both wings with traces of sinuous antemedial and sub- 

 marginal lines ; fore wing with slight dark discocellular mark ; hind 

 wing with two white discocellular specks. Underside whitish. 

 Hob. Khasis ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Celebes. Evp. 22 millim. 



Genus ANISODES. 

 Anisodes, Guen. Phal. i, p. 415 (1857). 

 Pisoraca, Wk. Cat. xxiv, p. 1078 (1862). 

 Perixera, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 209. 

 Streptopteron, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 9. 

 Trirachopoda, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 147 (1893). 

 Mesotropne, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 148. 



Type, A. lateritiaria, H.-S., from S. America. 



Range. Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching beyond the frons, the 3rd long 

 and porrect ; antennae of male bipectinated for two-thirds length. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 

 stalked from before end of cell, often with a minute areole at their 

 base. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of cell. 



SECT. I. (Perixera). Hind tibiae of male extremely short, with a 

 tuft of long crimson hair from base and three long curved 

 spurs from extremity. 



3926. Anisodes obrinaria, Guen. Phal. i, p. 414 j Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 179, fig. 4 a ; C. 8f S. no. 3573. 

 Anisodes obliviaria, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 643. 

 Anisodes caligata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1584; C. $ S. no. 3561. 

 Anisodes similaria, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1682 ; C. # S. no. 3582. 

 Anisodes suspicaria, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiv, p. 80, pi. 8, fig. 6. 

 Anisodes pallida, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 445, pi. 201, fig. 11 ; 



C. $ S. no. 3575. 



Pale rufous, irrorated with fine red scales ; frons and vertex of 

 head whitish. Fore wing with a curved series of three antemedial 

 dark specks ; a discocellular speck ; traces of a waved postmedial 

 line ; a submarginal series of specks, the one on vein 5 displaced 

 towards the base ; a marginal series. Hind wing similar, but 

 with a white-centred annulus varying in size at end of cell. 

 Underside pale. 



The female form pallida has the ground-colour much greyer 

 and the irroration more prominent. 



Hdb. Khasis ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Mouhnein : Anda- 

 mans ; Borneo ; Solomons. Kxp. 30-32 millim. 



