336 - GEOMETRID A. 
Sxct. II. (Myostoma). Palpi slender; antenne of male ciliated; 
fore wing with the outer margin shorter and excurved at 
middle. 
| 3597. Dysethia straminea, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 347. 
Ochreous, with slight brown irroration. Fore wing with traces 
of a waved antemedial line arising from a brown spot on costa; a 
medial spot on costa ; traces of a slightly sinuous postmedial line 
ending in a brown spot on inner margin. Hind wing paler, with 
speck at end of cell and indistinct curved submarginal band. 
Hab. Sikhim. Hep. 24 millim. y 
C1 el 
\j_Genus CRYPTOLOBA. ya ‘ 
‘ Cryptoloba, Warr. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 348. A A > 
- Tsoloba, Warr. P. Z, S. 1898, p. 345. 
Type, C. wrata, Moore. 
Range. Himalayas; Nilgiris. 
Palpi porrect, clothed with hair, and reaching well beyond the 
sharp frontal tuft; antenne of male bipectinated to near apex. 
Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell. Hind wing of 
male with the inner area reduced to a small lobe, or rarely a fold 
at base; 2 running to the functional anal angle, 3 from near 
angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 connected with 7 by an 
oblique bar. 
Sucr. I. (Cryptoloba). Fore wing with vein 10 anastomosing with 
11 and then with 8, 9 to form the double areole; hind wing 
with vein 5 from above angle of cell; antenne bipectinated 
in both sexes. 
3098. Cryptoloba rata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 654; C. & S. 
no. 3758. 
Cryptoloba minor, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 344. 
3. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing clothed with fuscous 
and yellow scales. Fore wing suffused with golden yellow and 
with sinuous antemedial, crenulate postmedial, and lunulate sub- 
marginal yellow lines; oblique antemedial and medial, and curved 
submarginal and marginal pale blue spots; a blue spot at end of 
cell. Hind wing ochreous, 
thickly irrorated and blotched 
with fuscous; both wings with 
the cilia orange and fuscous. 
Underside of fore wing fus- 
cous; the costal and outer 
areas suffused with pale golden 
yellow. Hind wing whitish, 
irrorated with black and suf- 
fused with golden yellow; the veins yellow; a black spot at end 
of cell; postmedial and submarginal diffused fuscous lines. 
Hab. Sikhim ; Khdsis, 7000-10,000 feet. vp. 30 millim. 
Fig. 166.—Cryptoloba erata, S. f- 
