152 Col. C. Swinhoe on new Geometers. 



hind wing, which runs down the outer border a short space ; 

 fore wing with a black spot at end of cell and a black discal 

 band ; hind wings with a similar internal band. 



Expanse of wings ItV inch. 



Type : Khasia Hills. Tn B.M, 



Family Boarmiidse. 



Subfamily Cabeeinje. 



Genus MiCRONlODES, Harapson. 

 Mieroniodes, Hampson, 111, Typ. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 139 (1893). 



Microniodes ocernaria. 



^ . Pure white ; antennse ochreous brown, top of head 

 chestnut-brown, frons pure white ; body and wings pure 

 white, wings with ochreous-brown lines and bands ; fore wings 

 with a costal band, an inner line running from the inner 

 margin near the base towards the end of the cell, where there 

 is a similarly coloured dot, and three submarginal spots at the 

 apex ; both wings with a medial band composed of a line 

 outwardly shaded with paler colour from the abdominal 

 margin of hind wings one third from the base to the apex of 

 fore wings ; a line from the abdominal margin one third from 

 the anal angle to the apex of fore wings, stopping before the 

 third apical dot ; a submarginal rather indistinct angulated 

 line, most distinct on hind wings, and a marginal line ; cilia 

 of the same colour, paler than the lines, and with pale tips. 

 Underside pure white, unmarked ; costal and marginal lines 

 ochreous brown, cilia as above. 



Expanse of wings lyV inch. 



Type : Khasia Hills. In B.M. 



Allied to M. ohliqua^ Hampson, which lacks the inner and 

 discal lines and is a larger insect. 



Subfamily Plvtodynju. 

 Genus MicrONISSA, Swinhoe. 

 Micrmissa, Swinlioe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 483. 



Micronissa dephinaria. 



(^ . "White. Fore wings with the costa pale ochreous; 

 wings thinly clothed, crossed by indistinct grey lines — first an 

 antemedial line somewhat distorted, second a medial line, 

 straight on fore wings, sinuous and partly dentated on liind 

 wings, third a discal line dentated on both wings, very indis- 



