MICROLYGRIS; EUSTROMA. I5y L. B. Pnoirr. 207 



the pale mark on median vein wliich becomes so conspicuous in multifaria and a niucii paler (whitisli) iiind- 

 wing, vvhicli is of normal shape. The single knowii example, a cf, is unforlunateiy worn and it is possible 

 that the hair-tuft beneath the forewing has been lost by abrasion, but I suspect that it is really wanting in 

 this species. Pu-t.su-fong, W. China. 



52. Genus: Mici'olygris 



(jen. 



Related to the preceding and following genera. Palpus very long, 2"'' joint stout, 3'''* point smooth, 

 rather elongate, exposed. Roth wings, but especially the hindwing, angled at 3'''^ radial, slightly sinuate anteri- 

 orly and usually posteriorly to this angle. Forewing with areole double; cf (except in erectaria) with pencil 

 of long light-coloured hairs near hindmargin of forewing beneath. Hindwing with costal anastomosing with 

 cell to well beyond its middle; discocellulars not biangulate, but becoming strongly oblique; P' median 

 approximated but not stalked. 



Type of the genus: multistriata Btlr. (Cidaria). 



Geographical distribution N. India to Japan. 



The long palpus, recalling the Neotropical Fsaliocles, and the wing-shape separate it from FAistroma. 



A. c/' forewing with long pencil of hair beneath. 



M. porphyriata Moore (^ multistriata 5</r.) (12a). B'orewing velvety brown traversed by numerous fine porj)%naia. 

 white lines, arranged chiefly in pairs but not all equally well expressed in all specimens; subterminal line 

 single, deeply dentate and irregular, meeting an oblique white line which runs from the apex. Hindwing 

 sometimes quite weakly marked, at other times with sharply expressed lines in the distal half except towards 

 the costal margin. Both wings beneath similarly marked to forewing above, yet less sharply. Dharmsala to 

 Assam. — complicata Btlr. (13 a) from Japan and Korea is smaller and rather less variegated, the lines for the compUcata. 

 most part even more slender, the white subapical line of the forewing often obsolescent. Wileman has recently 

 recorded the name-typical form also from Japan. 



R. cf forewing without pencil of hair beneath. 



M, erectaria Leech (IBd). Lighter and more yellowish brown than multistriata, the 12 lines arranged in 3 erectaria. 

 groups of 4, which separate brown areas; the middle group rather straight; the brown band which follows 

 contains the discal ocellus; this is much larger than in multistriata, its dark pupil being expanded into a 

 good-sized blackish-fuscous spot. Hindwing also with discal ocellus above, as well as beneath. Japan: Hako- 

 date and Runo. 



53. Genus: Slistl'oiiia Hbn. 



Agrees in most characters with Hysterura. The palpus is usually rather shorter and stouter, but in 

 order to avoid multiplication of genera a few species with moderately long palpi are provisionally included. 

 Forewing with apex not acute, distal margin curved, not very oblique; areole always double; cf always with 

 a hair-pencil near inner margin, in the typical forms this is long and black-tipped, arises from a quadrangular 

 patch further from the base than the tuft in Lygris and posteriorly (not anteriorly) to the 2""* submedian vein, 

 and covering a circular orange patch of (androconial?) scales. Hindwing with distal margin even, P' median 

 not stalked; in the typical cf forms with a second (androconial?) orange patch on the upper surface, occupying 

 the position of the discal spot of the ?. 



The genus inhabits the Palearctic and Indian Regions and North America. 



E, reticulata Schiff. {^= dictyides Wllgrn) (8 e). Forewing rather broad, the distal margin convex; reticulata. 

 dark fuscous, paler and greyer between the 2°'^ and 3'''' white lines and (except costally) between the e"" and 

 7"'; most of the veins white; the character of the intricate white lines can be best seen from our figure. 

 Hindwing often paler, especially in anterior part, costally at times white; cf with raised orange discal patch, 

 ? with blackish cell-dot, both sexes with 2 whitish lines beyond the middle. Under surface paler and much 

 more weakly marked; cf hair-tuft black except at its base. Generally not variable, but striking aberrations 

 sometimes occur. — In ab. ovulata Borgmann the 4"' and 5"^ white lines of the forewing meet at the costal ovulaia. 

 margin (or, rather, just before reaching it), so as to enclose an ovate dark patch. — Ab. costimacula Prout is costimacula. 

 a much more curious aberration in which a broad (sometimes very broad) white suffusion runs along, the 



