248 GEOMETRIDA. 
fuscous. Fore wing with a curved antemedial black line slightly 
angled on median nervure, and with an ochreous band inside it; 
both wings with traces of a medial line; a postmedial black line 
highly angled at vein 5 of each wing, with slight streaks at the 
Fig. 131.—Biston bengaliaria, 3. tt. 
veins, and with a diffused ochreous band beyond it; traces of a 
waved submarginal line, with some waved black marks on each side 
of it near vein 4 of fore -wing. 
The form contectaria is much less suffused with ochreous. 
Hab. Sikhim; Khasis; Shillong. Hwp., g 64-74, 2 66-92 
millim. 
3360. Biston raptaria, Wik. Cat. xxi, p. 373; C. § S. no. 8258. 27— 
Boarmia suiasasa, Wik. Cat. xxi, p. 8738; C. & S. no. 3259. 
Boarmia disterminata, Wik. Cat. xxi, p. 491; Hmpsn. Ill. Het. 
viii, pl. 149, fig. 18; C. & S. no. 3257. 
Cusiala rufifasciata, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, p. 148, pl. 169, fig. 7. 
g. White, irrorated with fuscous; antenne fulvous. Fore 
wing with waved ante- and postmedial yellowish bands, the latter 
angled beyond cell; some black suffusion on costa. Hind wing 
with waved postmedial yellowish band excurved beyond cell; bota 
wings with marginal series of black specks. 
with black lines instead of the yellowish bands. 
The form rufifasciata has browner irroration and the bands 
rufous; suasasa is whiter, with black instead of yellowish bands; 
disterminata has black suffusion between the bands of fore wing, 
and sometimes the hind wing black as far as the postmedial band. 
Hab. Nilgiris; Ceylon. Hap. 38-54 millim. 
3361. Biston boarmioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 234; C. 8 S. no. 3256. 
Tephrosia angulata, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 107, pl. 150, fig. 7. 
Differs from typical raptaria in the postmedial band of hind 
wing being angled beyond the cell instead of curved. 
Hab. Sikhim; Khdsis; Ganjam; Nilgiris. Eup., ¢ 46, 9 60 
millim. 
