BWDTHOBA. — METACHEOSTIS. 325 



slightly hairy. Eire wins: of nearlv even width throughout : the 

 apex near/ _.-/.: ; Feins B aud 9 anastomosing to form, the 



areole. ELind wing with veins 3. 4 and 6, 7 from cell. 



_ '. Swinlioea vegeta. 8mnh. P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 475, pL 28, fig. 14: 

 C. 8f S. no. 3043. 



c . Head and collar fuscous : thorax vinous ; abdomen fuscous. 

 F re wing :: jug brown, the base 

 pale, the outer two - thirds much 

 darker : an indistinct short pale 

 subbasal line: a bjack speck above 

 inner margin near base : obliquely 

 waved anteinedial. medial, and post- 

 medial lines. Hind wing fuscous 

 Yir." underside with indistinct cell-spot 



SwtnJwcatx .- ; \ t . and postmedial line. 



HoJj. Abyssinia : Punjab ; Bombay 

 Exp. 22 mini m. 



Genua HZIACHROSTIS. 



Metachrostis. Hub*. Terz. p. 204 l c l^ . 

 Ozarba. Wlk. Cat. zzzii. p. 684 1865 



Tvpe. M. velox. Hiibn.. from Europe. 



Range. Europe: Japan: China; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Eur zi a ; Java : Australia. 



Palpi long and upturned, reaching above vertex of head: 

 thorax and abdomen without tufts. Pore wing with veins 

 1C stalked : vein 7 sometimes almost or quite touching 8, 

 and forming an are: -f. 



K r 



^~:r. I. [Metaeh . : : . Ground-colour purplish or brownish 



grey. 



A. Antennae si : filiate lin 



l. 36. Hetachrostis miasma. Hmpm. 177. Set. viii. p. 73. pi. 145. 

 fig. 16. 



Dark purplish grey. Eore wing crossed by some eight or nine 

 ill-defined and diffused fuscous-black waved lines : the orbicular 

 a black speck, the reniform a black spot. Hind sving dark 

 us. 



Hah. Xilgiris. Exp. 19 millim. 



2 ! 37. Metachrostis egens. M C .-. CeyL iii, p. 68, pi. 151. fig 

 _ § no. 2-216. 

 Metachrostis contingreiis. Moore. P. Z. & 1888, p. 412: Butl. III. 

 EM vii 7 p. 65, pi. 129, est. 13. 



