478 
V0CTUI1) K. 
the mid tibiae with large tufts of hair, the hind tibiae clothed 
with rough hair, of female moderately fringed with hair ; 
abdomen with slight rough hair at base of dorsum but without 
crests. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex which 
is produced and acute, the termen excised to vein 4 where it is 
produced to a point, then oblique, not crenulate ; the inner 
margin with small scale-tooth near base ; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form a small areole ; 1 1 from cell. 
Hind wing with the termen slightly excised at discal fold and 
obliquely truncate towards tornus ; the cell half the length 
of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully 7- developed from 
below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 7 
anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus METAPHffiNIA, nov. 
Type, M. plagifera, Walk. ( Thermesia ), Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Zooi. vii. p. 187 (1864) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iii. p. 71 (1895) ; 
Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 208 (1900). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, 
extending about three times length of head, moderately scaled 
below and fringed with long hair above, the 3rd upturned, 
rather long and fringed with hair in front and behind except 
at tip which is rather acuminate ; frons smooth, with ridge of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely 
ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and 
without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 
with slight rough hair at base of dorsum but without crests. 
Fore wing with the costa moderately arched towards apex 
which is somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly 
curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 
from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 
the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the tornus obliquely 
truncate ; the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 
angle ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Metaphcenia amelasna, n. sp. 
Head, tegulse, and base of patagia pale rufous with some 
dark brown scales, the rest of thorax whitish suffused with 
rufous ; abdomen pale purplish red with whitish segmental 
lines ; palpi with red-brown band near base of 2nd joint 
and blackish ring near extremity of 3rd joint ; fore and mid 
legs rufous mixed with brown, the fore tarsi black ; pectus, 
hind legs and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with 
rufous. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous and irrorated 
with black-brown ; an obliquely curved red-brown subbasal 
