.METOXYDIA. :,.", 



indistinctly striated with grey: primaries up to the oblique line golden brown, beyond it 

 partly golden brown and partly greyish testaceous, with an oblique whitish band from the 

 middle of this line to the external angle; internal border whitish : secondaries with tlie line 

 differently formed from that of the upper surface, oblique to the third median branch, and 

 thence arched and incurved to the abdominal margin; area up to the line pale greyish 

 testaceous, beyond it creamy whitish, with an internally diffused subapical undulated grey 

 stripe and a grey streak at anal angle; fringe golden brown : body below whitish. Expanse 

 of wings G3 millim. 

 Silhet. 



METOXYDIA, gen. nov. 



In form, style of coloration, pattern, neuration of the wings, and size of the body 

 precisely similar to Oaydia : the structure of the head is, however, entirely different ; it is 

 larger, with much shorter and thicker palpi; and the antennae, instead of being simple as in 

 Oxydia, are strongly pectinated from the base for fully two thirds of their length. 



Metoxydia calamina. (Plate CXIV. fig. 7.) 



Oxydia calamina, Butler, Ann. 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 121. n. 21 (1880). 



Stramineous, wings more or less tinted with olivaceous : primaries covered with minute 

 grey striatums, with three oblique equidistant costal olivaceous dashes, followed by a fourth 

 rather nearer to the third ; the first of these dashes forms the commencement of an irregular 

 dusky subbasal line ; an oblique angulated ill-defined blackish line from inner margin, where 

 it commences in a blackish streak, to apex, where it terminates in a greyish-white furcate 

 character resembling the letter y ; disk beyond the oblique line clouded with olivaceous, and 

 marked with a large rounded greyish-white spot and an oblique dash of the same colour ; 

 external area whitish in the centre ; an ill-defined blackish apical marginal line ; fringe 

 ferruginous: secondaries speckled with dark grey, crossed near the base by a very ill-defined 

 zigzag greyish line; disk crossed by a pale-bordered greyish line: head and antennae black ; 

 abdomen very pale. Wings below golden sandy yellow, speckled with black, crossed by two 

 black bnes corresponding to those of the upper surface, but sharply defined and bordered 

 here and there with ferruginous: primaries with the apex grey above the black line; costal 

 dashes ferruginous, more or less black-speckled; black discocellular dots to all the wings: 

 legs and venter black-speckled ; knees and tarsi blackish. Expanse of wings 5<J millim. 

 Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



