AR.EA. POLrGKAMHATA. 639 



on costa; subtermiiial line diffused, Avhite, angled outwards at vein 

 7 and inwards at discal and subniedian folds, at former to post- 

 medial line, with short black streaks beyond it above and below 

 vein 5 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered 

 brown and whitish with a brown line through them. Hind wing 

 Avhitish suffused with brown, a slight brown terminal line ; cilia 

 white with brownish line through them except towai'ds tornus ; the 

 underside white irroraled with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hob. Kashmir, Scinde Valley, 8000' {Leech), 1 S type, Goorais 

 Valley, 7000' {Leech), 1 $ . E.vp. 34 millim. 



*3o87. AraBa indecora. 



Byschorista indecora, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 1 (1874). 



(S . Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale rufous and a few 

 blackish scales ; palpi blackish above ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 whitish tinged with red-brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by double oblique black striae from costa 

 and a curved black streak below the cell ; antemedial line double, 

 waved, oblique, strongly incurved at vein 1 ; claviform defined by 

 black, acute at extremity and with whitich patch beyond ic ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former with white 

 centre, oblique and produced to a point below, the latter with 

 brown centre and white annulus ; a black striga from middle of 

 costa, postmedial line double and filled in with white at costa, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly 

 defined by white on outer side, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, 

 some black points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line absent ; 

 an oblique dark shade from termen just below apex : a terminal 

 series of prominent black points ; cilia chequered fuscous and 

 whitish. Hind wing white, the termen suffused with brown from 

 apex to vein 2 ; cilia white ; the underside white, the costal area and 

 terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct diffused curved postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 3. 



Hah. C. Colony, Capetown, Wynberg, type f d" in Coll. 

 Eothschild. E.vp. 30 millim. 



Genus POLYGRAMMATA. 



Type. 



Polygrammate, Hiibn. Verz. p. 203 (1827) hehraica. 



Gramonophora, Guen. Noct. i. p. 30 ( 18 j2) hebraica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, the 2nd joint 

 reaching to about middle of Irons, the 3rd rather long ; Irons with transverse 

 ridge at middle with corneous plate below it ; ejes large, round : antennae of 

 male aluiost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; build slender ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 



