140 GEOMETEID^. 



above it, anotlier at apex. Hind wing with the costal area slightly suflPused with ochreous ; 

 obscure postmedial and submarginal waved lines ; cilia of both wings chocolate. Underside 

 of thorax and abdomen bright orange-yellow ; fore wing with dark strife, the basal half yellow 

 followed by a bright chestnut band broad at costa and edged by a purplish line ; purplish 

 patches at apex and centre of outer margin, and yellow patches near outer angle. Hind wing 

 bright yellow with dark strise; postmedial and submarginal waved dark lines, which join 

 towards inner margin and have some diffused rust-red between them and on the apical half 

 of margin. 



ENNOMINjE. 



Zomia serpentinaria, Wlk. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 13.) 

 Timandra ? serpentinaria, Wlk. Cat. xxxv. p. 1(534. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Male. Head and abdomen purplish fuscous ; thorax olive-yellow. Fore wing olive-yellow, 

 slightly striated with fuscous ; a silvery-grey antemedial, slightly curved line ; a submarginal 

 waved, silvery-grey line highly excurved between the first median and first subcostal nervures ; 

 the area beyond it silvery grey, except a patch on costa before the apex and fuscous marks 

 below the apex and towards outer angle. Hind wing pale reddish orange ; the inner area 

 silvery grey with dark striae ; an olive-and-black postmedial band from inner margin to the 

 first median nervule. Underside of fore wing orange-red, the apex pale ; of hind wing brick- 

 red with sparse dark strise. 



Plutodes exiguifascia. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 17.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Head brownish ; collar yellow ; thorax and abdomen roan. Fore wing with the 

 costa and a nari'ow medial band yellow ; the remainder of the wing consisting of two roan 

 patches edged with silvery scales. Hind wing with basal and outer roan patches edged by 

 silvery scales, leaving a narrow medial yellow baud, broadest at costa. Cilia of both wings 

 yellow. Underside pale. 



Nearest to P. cyclaria, Guen. 



Petelia immaculata. (Plate CLXVIII. figs. 6, 12.) 



Expanse If inch. 



Male and Female. Differ from P. medardaria, H.-S., in the antemedial line of the fore 

 wing being more oblique. Underside with the basal area pale brown, not white ; hind wing 

 without the conspicuous black discal spot. Male with an anal white tuft ; female with the 

 vertex of the head white, as in all the other species of the genus, whilst in the males it is grey. 



