216 GEOMETRID &. 
Genus DILINIA. 
Deilinia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 310 (? 1818). 
Leptomeris, Hiibn. Verz. p. 310. 
Petelia, Herr.-Schiffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 24 (1854). 
~Bargosa, Wik. Cat. xxi, p. 479 (1860). 
~Alana, WIk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1567 (1866). 
Trochistis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1892, p. 110. 
Type, D. pusaria, Linn., from Europe. 
Range. Palearctic, Oriental, and Australian regions. 
Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint 
fringed with hair; antenne of male bipectinate to two-thirds 
length ; fore tibia with a long process and tuft of hair; hind tibie 
not dilated. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 7, 8, 
9, 10 stalked, from before upper angle; 11 free. Hind wing with 
vein 3 from angle of cell. 
Snot. I. (Petelia). Hind wing of male without fovea, and vein 8 
approximated to cell to the middle. 
3272, Dilinia medardaria, Herr.-Schiffer, Sammi. aussereur. Schmett. 
fierd554; C. & S. no. 3422. 
Bargosa chacoraca, Wik. Cat. xxi, p. 481. 
Bargosa chandubija, Wik. Cat. xxi, p. 480. 
Bargosa distracta, Wik. Cat. xxi. p. 481. 
Ephyra strigulataria, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1575; C. & S, no. 3556. 
3. Grey-brown, irrorated with fuscous; antenne fuscous. 
Fore wing with nearly straight fuscous antemedial line; both 
wings with straight medial line and often with a biack spot at end 
of cell; traces of a waved 
submarginal rufous band ; 
a series of black mar- 
ginal specks. Underside 
whitish, with very pro- 
minent black cell-spots 
to each wing; the outer 
area suffused with fus- 
cous. 
@. With the vertex of head white; the fuscous lines of both 
wings obsojescent ; fore wing sometimes with a black apical patch. 
Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. ap. 40 millim. 
Fig. 118.—-Dilinia medardaria, G. }. 
3279. Dilinia immaculata, Hmpsn. Til. Het. ix, p. 140, pl. 168, 
fies. 6, 12. 
¢. Differs from medardaria in being rufous brown; abdomen 
with a white anal tuft; underside pale rufous brown; the hind 
wing without cell-spot. 
@ witha series of diffused submarginal black spots to each 
wing. 
Hab. Sikhim; Nagas; Ceylon. wp. 44 millim. 
