CALAMOCHKOUS. METASIA. 421 



postmedial striga from the costa ; the basal inner area whitish ; 

 diffused dark spots in cell and on discocellulars. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous, with white medial patch on costa ; the underside pure 

 white, with the apical area fuscous and traces of a dark postmedial 

 line. 



Hal. Sikhim (Knyvett). Exp. 20 millim. Type in B. M. 



SECT. II. Maxillary palpi slightly dilated with scales. 



5196. Calamochrous dichroma, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 223; C. $ S. 



no. 4133. 

 Calamochrous brevipalpis, Snell. Trans. JEnt. Soc. 1890, p. 599. 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen dull ochreous ; palpi fulvous, 

 white below. Fore wing ochreous, suffused and irrorated with 

 ferruginous ; the costal area tinged with brown ; traces of dark 

 specks in cell and on discocellulars ; the cilia black at base, white 

 at tips. Hind wing ochreous ; the costal arid anal areas tinged 

 with fuscous. Underside of fore wing with the cell and subcostals 

 suffused with fuscous. 



$ with the palpi rather longer ; the fore wing more ochreous ; 

 the spots in cell and on discocellulars more prominent ; hind whig 

 whitish. 



Nab. Sikhim. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus METASIA. 

 Metasia, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 251 (1854). 



Type, M. suppandalis, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Mediterranean subregion ; Turkestan ; Punjab ; Deccan ; 

 Australia. 



Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by 

 hair ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; proboscis small ; frons 

 with a large rounded prominence ; antennae nearly simple ; tibisB 

 with the spurs equal. Fore wing rather long and narrow ; vein 3 

 from well before angle of cell ; 10 well separated from 8, 9. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from above the angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



5197. Metasia sabulosalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 217. 



d . Yellow-brown mixed with white scales ; palpi fuscous. Fore 

 wing with fuscous streak below basal half of costa ; an antemedial 

 fuscous line ; a discocellular speck ; a dark postmedial line nearly 

 straight from costa to vein 2, along which it is retracted to lower 

 angle of cell. Hind wing with postmedial line bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2 ; both wings with dark marginal line and a 

 line through the cilia. 



5 more ochreous. 



Hob. Punjab ; Poona. Exp., 3 12, $ 18 millim. 



