138 EPIPLEMID^. 



crossed by a dark brown medial band, which is narrow at the middle, wide at the costa and 

 inner margin. Hind wing with the medial band of even width throughout, angled between 

 the second and third median nervules ; the costa fringed with long hairs ; the outer margin 

 augulated at the first subcostal oaly. Both wings with a marginal series of lunulate marks. 



Dirades crepuscularis. (Plate CLVII. fig. 12.) 



Expanse ? | inch. 



Female. Head and antennae white ; thorax, abdomen, and wings purplish brown. Fore 

 wing with an erect, nearly straight, postmedial ferruginous line. Hind wing with a curved 

 ferruginous line from the centre of the costa to inner margin near anal angle. Both wings 

 with a slight marginal blackish line and the cilia rather darker than the ground-colour. 



Gathynia ferrugata, Wlk. (Plate CLVII. fig. 7.) 



Dirades ferrugata, Wlk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1651. 

 Erosia ferrugata, Hmpsn. PI. CLVII. fjg. 7. 



Expanse ^ I inch. 



Male. Head and thorax purplish fuscous, the metathorax reddish ; abdomen pale fuscous, 

 the first segment dark. Fore wing fuscous brown, with diffused ferruginous patches on disk 

 and at apex ; a very indistinct submarginal, curved, dark line. Hind wing dark purplish 

 brown ; the inner area suffused with white ; a ferruginous streak from the base to lower angle 

 of cell ; ante- and postmedial angled ferruginous lines. Underside of hind wing whitish. 



METORTHOCHEILUS, g. u. 



Male. Antennae thickened as in Dirades, Wlk. Palpi short, slight, and upturned. Fore 

 wing highly cmarginate below the apex ; the first subcostal anastomosing shortly with the 

 costal ; the second given ott' before the end of cell ; the third from the fourth before the 

 apex; the fifth stalked with the upper radial j lower radial from the middle of discocellulars ; 

 third median from lower angle of cell ; second and first medians at intervals before the angle. 

 Hind wing with the costa slightly emarginate, the apex rather hooked, the outer margin 

 almost straight ; the two subcostals stalked ; the radial from middle of discocellulars ; second 

 and thii'd medians from lower angle of cell; the first median from before the angle. 



Type M. [Azatat) emarginatus, Hmpsn., 111. Typ. Heteroc. viii. p. ILi, pi. 151. fig. 14, 



Decetia subobscurata, Wlk. (Plate CLXVIII. figs. 1, 7.) 



Gynoptcryx ? subobscurata, Wlk-. Cat. xxvi. p. 1495. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Male. Red-brown; an oblique ferruginous line from the apex of fore wing to inner 

 margin of hind wing before the middle. Fore wing with an obscure series of black submarginal 



