APORAtfDRIA. GEOMETEA. 495 



4070. Aporandria specularia, Ouen. Phal. i, p. 342 j Moore. Lev. 



Ceyl iii, pi. 194, figs. 1, 1 a ; C. # & no. 3444. 



Pea-green ; palpi and frons chocolate ; vertex of head white. 

 Fore wing with a dark speck at end of cell. Hind wing with the 

 base yellower green ; a large lunulate pinkish mark with brown 



Fig. 219. Aporandria s 



edges and a black speck on it at end of cell, extending towards 

 costa and inner margin as an indistinct band ; both wings with 

 traces of waved postmedial line. Underside of palpi, thorax, and 

 base of wings silvery white. 



Hob. Assam ; Wynaad ; Nilgiris ; Travancore ; Ceylon ; Sumatra. 

 Exp., <f 54, $ 60 millim. 



Genus GEOMETRA. 



Geometra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 858 (1767). 

 Comibsena, Hiibn. Verz. p. 284 (? 1818). 

 Loxochila, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 615. 

 Chlororithra, Butl. III. Net. vii, p. 106 (1889). 



Type, G. papilianaria, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Palaearctic region ; Himalayas. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint clothed with hair and reaching just 

 beyond the short frontal tuft ; antennae of male bipectinated. 

 Fore wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 1 1 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



In the typical section the wings have the outer margin crenulate ; 

 hind tibiae of male not dilated. 



SECT. II. (LoxocJiila). Wings with the outer margin evenly 

 rounded ; hind tibiae of male dilated with a fold containing a 

 tuft of long hair. 



4071. Geometra smaragdus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) vi, p. 128 ; id. 

 III. Het. vi, pi. 117, fig. 5. 



(S Grass-green. Fore wing with waved white anternedial line, 



