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Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskeliya (Alston). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B. M. 



2077. Metachbostis hypinoides, insert (syn.) 2840, c. Falcimala sagittifera 



2083. a. Metachrostis pausta, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) XI, p. 506 (1903). 



$ . Head and thorax brown mixed with fuscous ; abdomen reddish-brown 

 tinged with fuscous and with the extremity ochreous. Forewing olive ochre- 

 ons suffused with purplish fuscous to the postmedial line and irrorated with 

 some white scales ; an indistinct black subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, slightly waved and filled in with olive ochreous ; 

 orbicular and reniform small with brownish centres and olive annuli defined 

 by black, the former round ; postmedial line double filled in with white, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is obtusely angled, then inwardly oblique ; 

 a diffused apical brown patch, a spot on inner margin before tornus and some 

 slight suffusion at middle of termen. Hindwing pale fulvous yellow ; some 

 fuscous suffusion at base, a discoidal point and fine terminal line ; the under- 

 side irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, curved minutely waved 

 postmedial line and spot on termen near tornus. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim, Tandong, 4,000'. Exp. 22 mill. 



2085. a. Metachbostis hemiph^ea. n. sp. 



Head and thorax, greyish usually mixed with fuscous, or uniform rufous ; 

 tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen clorsally brownish suffused with fuscous 

 ventrally whitish. Forewing with the basal half grey or brownish more or less 

 suffused with fuscous, the terminal half dark-brown shading into purplish, 

 towards postmedial line> then red- brown, a double straight subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; a double straight antemedial line with black point 

 on its outer edge in cell ; a slight black discoidal lunule ; postmedial line brown 

 on a narrow grey band, oblique from costa to vein 7 and slightly incurved at 

 discal and submedian folds ; subterminal line pale grey, very minutely waved, 

 excurved at middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hindwing fuscous, the cilia greyish at tips ; the underside grey irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line and diffused sub- 

 terminal line. 



Habitat. — Madras, Gooty (Campbell). Nilgiris (Hampson); Ceflon, Colombo 

 (Mackwood), Hambantota (Pole), Exp. 24-26 mill. Type in B. M. 



