HEMISCOPIS. — MECYNA. 417 



lateral white lines ; tarsi white ; abdomen fulvous towards ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing with out- 

 wardly oblique antemedial rufous 

 line ; a black postmedial patch 

 on costa, with a large dark 

 rufous roughly-scaled patch below 

 it beyond the cell, traversed by 

 the sinuous dark postmedial line 

 which is bent inwards to the 

 Hemiscopis suffusalis, tf. {. eosta - Hind wing with oblique 



black line from median nervure, 

 joined by a streak in interno-median interspace ; an oblique post- 

 medial line bent outwards to outer margin above anal angle ; both 

 wings with black marginal line. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Tenasserim ; Sumatra ; Borneo. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



5187. Hemiscopis expansa, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix ; p. 396. 



Differs from suffusalis in being much larger and paler ; no 

 rufous on head and abdomen. Pore wing with the postmedial 

 line more excurved beyond the cell, the rufous suffusion confined 

 to its inner side and extending to inner margin. Hind wing with 

 rufous suffusion inside the medial part of postmedial line. 



Hab. Simla ; Dharmsala. Exp., S 26, $ 32 millim. 



5188. Hemiscopis stigmatilis, Swinh. A. M. N. IT. (6) xiv, p. 141. 



Fuscous black with a slight purplish tinge. Fore wing with 

 the basal and outer areas darkest, the medial area paler ; curved 

 subbasal and antemedial black lines ; a postmedial line, sinuous 

 from costa to vein 3, then retracted to upper angle of cell round 

 the discocellular black lunule and sinuous to inner margin ; a 

 sinuous submarginal and a marginal series of pale specks. Hind 

 wing with obscure antemedial black line ; sinuous postmedial line ; 

 the outer area darker, with pale diffused submarginal line ; a fine 

 pale marginal line. Underside greyer ; fore wing with annulus 

 round the discocellular spot ; both wings with sinuous postmedial 

 line, with diffused black band beyond it. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp., d 1 26, $ 30 millim. 



Genus MECYNA. 

 Mecyna, Guen. Belt. $ Pyr. p. 406 (1854). 



Type, M. gilvata, Fabr. 

 Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi porrect, long and rostriform, the 3rd joint partially con- 

 cealed by hair ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales at extremity ; 

 VOL. iv. 2 E 



