New Geometers and Pyrales from the Khasia Hills. 135 



XXTI. — New Species of Geometers and Pi/rales from the 

 Khasia Hills. By Col. C. Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S. 



Tribe Geometers. 



Familj GeometridaB. 



Genus Maxates, Moore. 



1. Maxates xanlhochlora, sp. n. 



(J . Antennge, palpi, head, and body greenish grej. Wings 

 above dull green : fore wings with the inner two thirds pale 

 greenish grej, containing a large green spot at the end of the 

 cell and an incomplete green subbasal band ; hind wings 

 with the basal fourth grey, including a green spot. Under- 

 side grejish white, with green cell-spots and marks, and a 

 broad discal greenish band across both wings, broader on hind 

 wings, uniform and not reaching the costa on fore wings. 



Expanse of wings yV inch. 



Cherra Punji. One example. 



Family Acidalidae. 



Genus Anisodes, Guen. 



2. Anisodes hyperythra^ sp. n. 



^ . Palpi beneath and shafts of the antennae and top of 

 head whitish ; plumes of the antennte, body, and wings above 

 of a uniform brick-dust colour, densely irrorated with very 

 minute brown atoms. Hind wings with a large black spot 

 with white pupil at the end of the cell, in some examples 

 the spot is white with merely a black rim ; both wings with 

 indications of several transverse grey bands, very indistinct, 

 and only visible in certain lights. Underside with the body, 

 legs, and wings of a uniform pale pinkish grey, unmarked. 



Expanse of wings 14 inch. 



Cherra Punji. Many examples. 



Closely resembles Perixera absconditaria, Walker. 



3. Anisodes discofera, sp. n. 



(J . Pale dull straw-colour, sparsely irrorated with brown 

 atoms. Wings crossed by indistinct grey sinuous lines — first 

 subbasal, more apparent on hind wings ; second medial, 

 touching a large brown spot in the centre of each wing, the 

 spot or patch very large on the fore wings ; third discal, with 

 black points on the veins, touching a brown patch above 

 middle on the fore wings ; fourth submarginal, almost obso- 

 lete on fore wings ; the margin with black points in the inter- 



