108 BOAEMUD.^.— GEOMETEID^. 



along its inner edge ; a very indistinct stigma at end of cell : an irregularly- waved postmcdial 

 band produced outward to a sliarp angle beyond the cell, and with some diffused ochreous 

 bi'own on its outer edge. Hind wing with a stigma at end of cell ; a postmedial band, 

 outwardly-oblique to beyond the cell, then with an inward curve to inner margin, and some 

 ochreous brown on its outer edge. Both wings with a very indistinct lunulate dusky sub- 

 naargiual band, and a series of marginal black specks. Underside whitish : fore wing with a 

 brown blotch at end of cell ; a postmedial double band from the costa to third median nervule, 

 and large apical diffused blotch : hind wing with a small spot on costa two thirds from base, 

 and lunule at end of cell. 



Pachyodes ruficosta. (Plate CL. fig. 16.) 



Expanse, c? If, ? 1\^ inch. 



Male and female. Cinereous, suffused with olive-green and marked with numerous 

 indistinct olive-green strigse. Fore wing with the costa red-brown from base to near ape.x, 

 and marked with dark brown strigiB ; a basal patch which is red-brown towards the costa, 

 olive-green towai'ds inner margin, an irregular dark antemedial line with white on its inner 

 edge, and a red-brown patch on its outer edge in the cell ; a dark lunule at end of cell on a 

 small red-bi'own patch ; an olive-green postmedial lunulate line with white on its outer edge, 

 and a blackish and reddish mark on it below the costa ; a very indistinct maculate white sub- 

 marginal band; a patch on outer margin one third from ape.x formed of red-brown and 

 olive-green scales ; a ferruginous patch near outer angle, with traces of another above it. 

 Hind wing suffused in places with red-brown scales ; a dark band across end of cell ; an 

 olive-green lunulate band, with white on its outer edge, just beyond the middle ; a very 

 indistinct white submarginal band. Both wings with an interrupted black lunulate sub- 

 marginal line; cilia pale olive and reddish. Underside white; basal area suffused with 

 yellow; black patches at end of cell of both wings ; an obsolescent black submarginal band 

 of medium width, and widest at costa of each wing. Abdomen with raised tufts of red-brown 

 scales above, on three median segments. 



Allied to P. shnilis and P. costistrigarki, and found also at Bombay and in Sikkim. 



GEOMETRID.E. 



Geometra pallescens. (Plate CLI. fig. 3.) 



Expanse I jl.> iucli. 



Male. \Yhite; a broad medial band, with curved outer margin, broadest on the costa of 

 fore wing, where it occupies half the wing, and is diffused to the base, narrowing towards 

 inner margin, broadening again on disc of hind wing and narrowing at inner margin; 



