METACHROSTIS. 327 



Sect. II. (Ozarha). Ground -colour brown or ochreous. 

 A. Antennae serrate in male. 



2072. Metachrostis destituta, Moore, Lev. Ceyl. iii, p. 48, pi. 150, 



fig. 6 ; C. # 6'. no. 18G0. C . 



Pale reddish brown. Fore wing with a dark brown band 

 between the subbasal and antemedial double waved lines ; a dark 

 medial band slightly angled on median nervure ; reniform with 

 dark outline; a postmedial waved line; the submarginal line 

 indistinct and arising from a large dark triangular mark on the 

 costa with a black spot on its lower edge. Hind wing fuscous. 



Hah. Khasis ; Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



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B. Antennas almost simple in male. 

 a. Fore wing with the outer margin not exeurved at centre. 



2073. Metachrostis undulata, Hmpsn. III. Bet. ix, p. 98, pi. 162. 



fig. 20. 



S . Ochreous white. Head and collar fuscous ; thorax and 

 fore wing irrorated with black scales, the latter with black spots 

 on the costa ; a black spot at base ; traces of six very ill-defined 

 waved lines ; reniform a large fuscous-black spot in the curve of 

 the postmedial line ; hind wing pale. Underside of fore wing with 

 black costal spots towards apex ; hind wing with discocellular and 

 postmedial lines. 



Hah. Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



2074. Metachrostis conspersa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 673. 



Miresa quadrinotata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 403; C. $ S. 

 no. 1315 a. 



Ochreous. Fore wing more or less irrorated with black, and 

 with black specks in and at end of cell. 

 Hah. Eormosa ; Kulu. Exp. 20 milb'm, 



2075. Metachrostis acervalis, Swink. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 451 ; C. $ S 



no. 2690. 



c? . Almost uniform pale ochreous, with a slight purplish-fuscous 

 tinge ; the head and collar pure white ; palpi tinged with fuscous 

 at sides. Fore wing with traces of a dark speck at end of cell and 

 one or two beyond it ; a greyish streak from end of cell to outer 

 margin and some marginal greyish streaks in the interspaces : a 

 black speck sometimes present near outer angle. Hind wing with 

 the outer area suffused with greyish. 

 Hah. Mhow. Exp. 20 millim. 



