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straight to the apex, which is acute, and produced in the male, and 

 extending beyond hind margin of fore wing ; exterior margin convex ; 

 subcostal vein with six branches, the first branch starting from near 

 the base at one half the length of the discoidal cell, thence proceed- 

 ing to the costa near the apex ; second starting from near end of the 

 cell and sending forth a short or third branch near the apex ; the 

 fourth branch starts with the second ; the fifth from one-third, and 

 the sixth near the juncture, of the fourth, but outside the cell. 

 Body robust, abdomen extending beyond hind wings. Legs short, 

 densely clothed with hairs. Palpi short, densely pilose ; third joint 

 minute, imbedded in the hairs of second. Antennae very small, 

 short, curved backward, bipectinate in both sexes. 



Alompra ferrtjginea. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 8.) 



Male and female bright ferruginous : fore wing with a transverse 

 curved row cf black dots one fourth from the base, and a single 

 dot at the base, and broad median and an exterior pale fuliginous- 

 brown band, the former commencing from the costa near the base 

 of the cell, aud attenuating to middle of the hind margin outside 

 the row of spots, and enclosing a red spot beyond the cell, the two 

 bands partly divided posteriorly by a lunular red streak ; the veins 

 crossing the median band brown in the male, grey in the female, 

 the portion crossing the exterior band being red : hind wing of male 

 fuliginous between the veins along the exterior margin, this wing in 

 the female being uniform ferruginous. Entire body and legs ferru- 

 ginous. Shaft of antennae jet-black, pectinations reddish yellow. 



Expanse, J 2f, $ 3| inches. 



Hub. Darjeeling {A. Grote). In Coll. F. Moore, W. W. Saun- 

 ders, and Captain Lang. 



Geometres. 



Genus Odontoptera, Steph. 

 Odontoptera chalybeata. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 4.) 



Allied to 0. discospilota. 



Dark dead green, washed with chalybeous, costal margin speckled 

 with brown : both wings with a large rounded black discal spot, 

 that on the hind wing the largest ; two transverse submarginal 

 brownish-green lunular lines with chalybeate-white holders. Thorax, 

 vertex, and body green ; front of head and palpi blackish. Exterior 

 margin of both wings sharply dentate, and having a narrow brown 

 marginal line ; cilia buff-colour. Underside of wings and legs 

 fawn-colour. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. N. India. Coll. W. W. Saunders. 



Genus Geometra, Linn. 

 Geometra lineata. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 2.) 



Male pale yellowish green : fore wing with a narrow brown- 

 speckled yellowish costal band ; two median transverse pale yellow 



