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-represented by a short black streak defined by white, the reniform by an 

 undefined white lunule with fuscous spot at lower angle of cell ; medial and 

 postmedial black points on costa with some slight white points beyond them ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by slight dentate 

 rufous marks, angled outward at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules. Hindwing pure white. 

 Habitat. — Beloochistan, Quetta. Exp. 36 mill. 



Genus Metalepsis. Type 



Metalepsis, Grote, Check. List. Noct., p. 25 (1875) cornuta. 



Spinipalpa, Alph. Hor. Ent. Soc, Boss., xxvi, p. 444 (1892) maculata. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front 

 and with some spinous hair mixed ; frons smooth ; eyes rounded, strongly 

 ciliated ; antennae of male typically pectinated with rather short branches ; 

 frons and vertex of head with tufts of hair ; thorax clothed with hair ; tegulsa 

 forming a dorsal ridge, pro-and meta-thorax with crests ; tibiae strongly 

 spined ; abdomen fringed with long hair at sides, Forewing rather narrow, 

 the apex produced ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell, 

 Hindwing with veins 3-4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6"7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 

 Sect. (Spinipalpa) Antennas of male ciliated. 

 1624a. Metalepsis maculata. 



Spinipalpa maculata, Alph. Hor.'Ent. Soc, Ross., XXVI, p. 445 (1892) ; id. 

 Bom. Mem., IX, p. 12, plate 1, f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal. 154. 

 Metalepsis aletes, Hmpsn., P. Z. S., 1906, p. 488, plate 36, f. 6. 

 $. Head and thorax pale rufous with a few black hairs ; patagia with a 

 white fascia edged on each side by black ; pectus, legs and abdomen brownish 

 grey, the anal tuft ochreous. Forewing pale rufous, the veins streaked with 

 white and defined on each side by grey ; a slight black streak below base of 

 costa ; a black streak below base of cell and another above basal half of inner 

 margin ; two black streaks in cell, the upper interrupted beyond middle, the 

 lower not reaching lower angle ; an obliquely curved postmedial series of 

 wedge-shaped black streaks in the interspaces from above veins 7 to above 1, 

 the streak above vein 5 displaced inwards and the streak above vein 1 longer ; 

 a terminal series of wedge-shaped black streaks in the interspaces. Hindwing 

 pale brownish grey. 

 Habitat.— Tibet ; Sikhim. Exp. 30 mill. 



Genus Ufeus. 



Type 



Ufeus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., 1, p. 101 (1873) satyrica 



Proboscis fully developed, palpi short, porrect, clothed with long rough 

 hair ; frons smooth ; eyes large, overhung by cilia ; antennas of male ciliated ; 



