466 GEOMETEIDJE. 



a submargirial sinuous line bent out to the margin at middle, and 

 with grey beyond it from vein 4 to anal angle. Underside reddish 

 orange. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Assam ; Andamans ; Borneo. Exp. 46 millim. 



SECT. III. Antenna3 of male bipectinated to near apex ; hind tibia 

 not dilated, but with a tuft of long hair from base ; fore wing 

 with the apex more produced. 



3988. Somatina lunuliferata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1522 ; Hmpsn. III. 

 Het. viii, pi. 142, figs. 1, 5 ; C. # S. no. 3225. 



3 . Grey-brown ; head blackish. Tore wing with the costa 

 rufous ; a waved antemedial line not reaching costa ; a large discal 

 brown ocellus with blue-grey central lunule ; an irregularly waved 

 postmedial line with a more dentate line beyond it, prominent 

 from vein 6 to inner margin, which it reaches near outer angle ; 

 an irregularly dentate pale submarginal line. Hind wing suffused 

 with dark chocolate ; an indistinct waved antemedial line ; a grey 

 line on discocellulars ; a minutely dentate postmedial line, with a 

 series of pale grey-edged lunulate marks beyond it from vein 5 to 

 inner margin ; both wings with slender grey line just inside the 

 margin ; the cilia bright rufous. Underside fuscous, with the 

 costal area of fore wing bright red. 



$ much redder and pinker. 



Hob. Canara ; Nilgiris. Exp., <3 42, $ 48 millim. 



Subfamily GEOMETRIN.E. 



Fore wing with vein 5 from towards upper angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 

 10 stalked, and often 6 and 11 with them, the latter often anasto- 

 mosing with 12, but no areole ever present. Hind wing with 

 vein 5 from towards upper angle of cell; 8 bent down and 

 touching the cell near base, then rapidly diverging. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Fore wing with a fovea at base in both 



sexes, and the antennae bipectinated . . 1. EFSCHEMA, p. 467. 



B. Fore wing without fovea. 



a. Abdomen with dorsal tufts. 



a'. Hind wing with the outer margin 



rounded. 

 a 2 . Both wings with vein 3 from near 



angle of cell ; hind wing long . . 2. PSEUDOTERPNA, p. 472. 

 6 2 . Both wings with vein 3 from long 

 before angle of cell ; hind wing 



short 3. SPHAGNODELA, p. 480. 



b'. Hind wing with the outer margin 

 produced to a point or angled at 

 vein 4 *. 



* Except in Uliocnemis casidara and albimarginata. 



