METOXTDIA. 
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indistinctly striated with grey : primaries up to the oblique line golden brown, beyond it 
partly golden brown and partly greyish testaceous, with an oblique whitish band from the 
middle of this line to the external angle ; internal border whitish : secondaries with the line 
differently formed from that of the upper surface, oblique to the third median branch, and 
thence arched and incurved to the abdominal margin ; area up to the line pale greyish 
testaceous, beyond it creamy whitish, with an internally diffused subapical undulated grey 
stripe and a grey streak at anal angle ; fringe golden brown : body below whitish. Expanse 
of wings 03 millim. 
Silhet. 
METOXYDIA, gen. nov. 
In form, style of coloration, pattern, neuration of the wings, and size of the body 
precisely similar to Oxtjdia : the structure of the head is, however, entirely different ; it is 
larger, with much shorter and thicker palpi; and the antennae, instead of being simple as in 
Oxydia, are strongly pectinated from the base for fully two thirds of their length. 
Metoxydia calamina. (Plate CXIV. fig. 7.) 
Oxydia calamina, Butler, Ann. ij- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 121. n. 21 (18S0). 
Stramineous, wings more or less tinted with olivaceous : primaries covered with minute 
grey striations, with three oblique equidistant costal olivaceous dashes, followed by a fourth 
rather nearer to the third ; the first of these dashes forms the commencement of an irregular 
dusky subbasal line ; an oblique angulated ill-defined blackish line from inner margin, where 
it commences in a blackish streak, to apex, where it terminates in a greyish-white furcate 
character resembling the letter y ; disk beyond the oblique line clouded with olivaceous, and 
marked with a large rounded greyish-white spot and an oblique dash of the same colour ; 
external area whitish in the centre ; an ill-defined blackish apical marginal line ; fringe 
ferruginous : secondaries speckled with dark grey, crossed near the base by a very ill-defined 
zigzag greyish line ; disk crossed by a pale-bordered greyish line : head and antennas black ; 
abdomen very pale. Wings below golden sandy yellow, speckled with black, ci'ossed by two 
black lines corresponding to those of the upper surface, but sharply defined and bordered 
here and there with ferruginous : primaries with the apex grey above the black line ; costal 
dashes ferruginous, more or less black-speckled ; black discocellular dots to all the wings : 
legs and venter black-speckled ; knees and tarsi blackish. Expanse of wings 59 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale). 
