102 NOCTUID &. 
line. Hind wing whitish, suffused with brown ; waved antemedial, 
medial, and postmedial lines; a marginal dark line. 
Hab. Sikhim ; Poona; Ceylon. Hp. 18 millim. 
Fig. 51.—Goniocraspedum mistura, ¢. }. 
Genus MECISTOPTERA. 
Mecistoptera, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, p. 134 (1893). 
Type, M. griseifusa, Hmpsn. 
Range. Eastern Himalayas; Manipur; Poona; Ceylon. 
Palpi long, obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint thickly clothed with 
scales, the 3rd long and slender; a short frontal tuft; antenne 
with long cilia in male, short in female; thorax and abdomen 
smoothly scaled ; tibiz nearly naked. Fore wing long and narrow ; 
the apex produced and acute; the outer margin oblique and 
excurved at middle; veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form an 
areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell; 5 from below 
the middle of discocellulars; the outer margin truncate from vein 
4 to anal angle. 
Szcr. I. Fore wing with the outer margin angled at vein 4 
and non-crenulate. 
3012. Mecistoptera griseifusa, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, p. 134, pl. 168, 
fig. 14. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen 
fuscous brown. Fore wing 
with the basal half vinous 
brown, running out to an 
angle at lower end of cell and 
defined by a white line; a 
white lunule on discocellu- 
Fig. 52.—Mecistoptera griscifusa, 9, 3. lars; the outer area purplish 
erey, irrorated with brown, 
and with brown patches below apex and above outer angle; the 
cilia brown. Hind wing dark fuscous. 
Hab. Ceylon. Hep. 26 millim. 
3013. Mecistoptera duplicilinea, n. sp. 
3. Reddish brown. Fore wing with an indistinct dark ante- 
medial line ; a white spot in cell and speck at end of it ; a double 
oblique postmedial straight line filled in with purple and with 
