438 GEOMETRID &. 
and from vein 5 to inner margin. Hind wing with the base dark ; 
a diffused medial line; a sinuous postmedial line, with diffused 
fuscous-grey patches beyond it at apex and from vein 5 to inner 
margin. 
2 with the diffused patches extending to outer margin, and on 
hind wing covering the whole outer area. 
Hab. Ceylon. wp. 14 millim. 
b. (Andragrupos). Fore wing of male with the inner margin developed 
into a large hook, extending almost completely across the hind 
wing ; ven 1 distorted. Hind wing i both sexes with the outer 
margin slightly excised between veins 4 and 6. 
3899. Acidalia violacea, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 119, pl. 152, 
figs. 15, 16. 
Pale rufous, irrorated with vinous brown. Fore wing with cell- 
spot; an indistinct antemedial line angled below costa; sinuous 
medial and postmedial lines terminating on the hook in male; the 
outer area suffused with vinous and with a pale sinuous submarginal 
line. Hind wing with antemedial diffused line; cell-speck; slightly 
sinuous medial line and traces of a postmedial line. 
Hab. Nilgiris. Hap. 20 millim. 
B. Hind tibice of male dilated with a fold and tuft of hair from base 
and without spurs. 
x. Hind tibie of male with a tuft of hair from extremity covering 
the tarsus. 
a’ (Ptychopoda). Fore wing with the apex not produced to an acut 
pot, 
wv. Fore wing of male with no patch of long hair on underside of 
uner margm. 
3900. Acidalia actiosaria, Wik. Cat. xxii, p. 750; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 
iil, pl. 200, fig. 11; C. § S. no. 3913. 
Acidalia profanaria, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1628; C. § S. no. 3945. 
Ochreous, suffused with purplish pink; head dark purple. Fore 
wing with the costa purplish ; both wings with waved antemedial, 
medial, and postmedial lines, 
the medial line being often 
‘leveloped into a prominent 
fuscous line, or there may be 
purplish suffusion between it 
and the postmedial line; pro- 
minent dark cell-specks; a 
pale waved submarginal line 
Hig. 201.—Acidalia actiosaria, g. }. and See of dark specks at 
base of cilia. 
Hab. Sikhim ; Nilgiris; Ceylon. Hap. 20-24 millim. 
