282 THALERASTRIA; NARANGA; METAEMENE. By W. Warren. 



of ^ filiform ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, without crests ; neuration of wings normal. Type E. fasciata 

 Btlr. 



mesozona. E. mesozona Hmps. (= mediana Stgr.) (52 f). Forewing ochreous white, with the terminal area rufous; 



lines marked on costa by black spots; the subbasal by a triangular black one at base of costa; the others by 

 smaller black spots, produced across wing as silvery lines ; a broad dark grey median band, edged by deep black 

 lines, sloping a little from costa to submedian fold; a black spot at end of cell; termen and fringe black; hind- 

 wing pale suffused with fuscous, deeper along termen. Hampson's type was from Aden; but mediana Stgr. 

 comes from Palestine. 



bipartite. E. tripartita H. Schdff. (52 g). Differs from the preceding in the median band being constricted below 



costa and again more strongly on submedian fold; the termen and fringe rufous. Sicily. 



undulaia. E. undulata Snell. (= excisa Swinh.,) (52 f). Forewing purplish grey, with partial brownish suffusion; 



inner line purplish, sinuous, lying near the outer edge of a broad white band; outer line double, filled in with 

 white, incurved on each fold where it is preceded by dark spots, and followed by a black line ; median line also 

 blackish, irregularly and diffusely waved; subterminal line white, dentate, also indented on the folds; a row of 

 black terminal dots inwardly marked with, white ; apex with a white patch ; orbicular stigma a white dot externally 

 black-edged; reniform a narrow white bar, preceded by a black spot; fringe fuscous, white at apex; hind wing 

 whitish with purplish grey suffusion, dark cell spot, and whitish outer band. An Indian and Island species, re- 

 cxcisa. corded also from the coast of Corea ; in the form excisa Btlr. from India the outer line, like the inner, is placed on 

 a pure white band; the apex and the apical fringes are not white; and the abdomen is yellowish with dark bands. 



tupina. E. tapina Hmps. (51 n). Forewing white flushed with reddish brown, with scanty markings; inner 



line indicated by brown dots on costa and inner margin and below median vein; an obscure brownish outer line, 

 oblique to beyond cell and inbent on submedian fold; a row of faint brown terminal striae; median line marked 

 by a brown streak from costa at middle; hindwing white tinged with red brown. Palestine. 



31. Genus: Thalerastria Stgr. 



Differs from Eulocastra only in having veins 3, 4 of hindwing stalked. Type Th. diaphora Stgr. 

 diaphora. Th. diaphora Stgr. (= atribasalis Hmps.) (52 g). Forewing yellowish white faintly rufous tinged; basal 



area purplish black glossed with grey; a triangular black costal blotch, reaching lower angle of cell, followed by 

 a pale flexuous outer line; terminal area purplish black, projecting at each fold; the fringe black with a grey 

 triangularis, gloss; hindwing whitish tinged with pale brown in <$, brown or fuscous in $; the form triangularis Warr., from 

 latidncta. N. India, has the ground colour deeper rufous ; in laticincta Stgr. the terminal dark band is wider. Occurs in Ar- 

 menia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine; Persia and N. India; also recorded from Algeria. 



32. Genus: Xaranga Moore 



Tongue aborted, quite small; frons smooth; palpi upturned, smoothly scaled; antennae of $ lamellate; 

 thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests; forewing narrow and elongate; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked; 

 no areole; yellowish with oblique red or brown bands. Type N. diffusa Walk. 



aenesccns. N. aenescens Moore (51 n) $. Forewing golden yellow; costal edge towards base red; also base of inner 



margin; median and outer bands oblique, blood red, the latter from apex to cell-fold only, and followed by a line 

 indented on submedian fold and bent outwards to tornus; hindwing dark redbrown with yellow fringe; $ more 

 ochreous yellow and the bands broken and irregular ; a dark spot at end of cell ; hindwing yellow, suffused with 

 aerata. pale brown except at termen; both sexes exhibit variation: in the ab. aerata ab. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) the golden 

 denotata, tinge of the yellow in the $ becomes brassy and the bands are less prominent; while in denotata ab. nov. ( = ab. 

 2. Hmps.) the bands in the forewing of the $ become subobsolete and the hindwing is wholly yellow. The 

 species occurs throughout Japan and in Central China; also in Formosa, whence the type. 



brunnea. N. brunnea Hmps. (= hebescens Leech nee Btlr.) (51 n). Forewing ochreous yellow suffused with dull 



rufous ; a dark cell spot ; a dull rufous band oblique from lower end of cell to inner margin followed by a clearer 

 ochreous space ; a diffuse dull rufous brown subterminal band, the termen itself narrowly ochreous ; fringe also 

 ochreous ; hindwing reddish brown ; fringe ochreous, redbrown at base ; in the $ the veins of forewing are slightly 

 streaked with ochreous. Japan and Central China. 



33. Genus : Metaeniene Hmps. 

 Tongue present; frons with a ridgelike prominence; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, the terminal 



