GEOMEIBIDiE. 551 



Genus LXTHINA. 



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Litkina, Hilbn. Verz. p. 338 (1818?). 



Type, L. petraria, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Europe; Kashmir. 



Palpi porrect, thickly fringed with hair and reaching just beyond 

 the frons, which is smooth and rounded ; antenna? of male thick- 

 ened and flattened ; hind tibiae dilated, with a fold containing a 

 tuft of long hair; scaling smooth. Eore wing with the apex 

 somewhat produced; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 7, 8, 9, 

 stalked ; 10 anastomosing with 11 and then with 8, 9 to form a 

 double areole. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



3184 a. Lithina triumbrata, Warr. Nov. Zool. 1895, p. 131. 



S • Pale ochreous brown. Eore wing irrorated with fuscous ; 

 an indistinct somewhat oblique antemedial line with dark spots on 

 median nervure and vein 1 ; an indistinct postmedial dark line 



Fig. 285. — Lithina triwnbrata, <$ . \. 



with short dark streaks on the veins, excurved below costa, 

 incurved from vein 5 to inner margin. Hind wing paler, with 

 traces of medial line ; underside with postmedial line, with short 

 dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Gurais Valley, Kashmir. Exp. 42 millim. 



Vol. Ill, p. 187. Under Eurytaphria insert Psilotaphria, Warr 

 Nov. Zool. 1895, p. 154, for Sect. II. 



3199 a. Eurytaphria xanthoperata, n. sp. 



S . Head yellow ; thorax, abdomen, and wings brown irrorated 

 with glittering scales, and with a few dark strise. Eore wing with 

 an indistinct highly curved antemedial dark line ; a discocellular 

 speck ; a postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 2, then 

 recurved ; the costa, margin, and cilia yellow. Hind wing with, 

 discocellular speck and indistinct curved postmedial line; the 

 margin and cilia yellow. 



2 with the cilia of both wings, not the margin, yellow. 



Hob. Ceylon {Green). Exp. 20 millim. Type in B. M. 



3199 b. Eurytaphria pachyceras, n. sp. 



<S . Antenna? thickened and flattened, in female simple. 



