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That marking less slender, upper arms less curved, below costa less oblique 
* metagrapha spec. nov. 
39. An isolated, curved, brown mark, convex above, in disc beyond middle, and 
a strongly oblique fascia from 1 / i of costa to fold .... exarthra Meyrick 
N ot thus 40 
40. Ground colour silvery white, wing along edges and on posterior half suffused 
with grey ish -lilac except a rounded preterminal whitish spot, and marked 
with transverse narrow wine-red lines oenographa spec. nov. 
Not thus . 
41. Preterminal markings reduced to black, dark grey or dark brown small dots, 
or sometimes groups of these, well or not forming a slender Y-shaped (rosary-like) 
mark . . , 42 
Preterminal markings either absent, or not thus reduced, if a Y-shaped mark 
present, then this is rather thick and dark grey, and not formed by rows of 
blackish dots (not rosary-like) 49 
42. Ground colour white, irrorated with pale fuscous, markings dark brown . . 
* plagiostibus spec. nov. 
Ground colour white, if irrorated, then with grey (sometimes with fuscous- 
greyish); markings grey and/or black 43 
43. A jet-black small round dot before middle of termen, sometimes surmounted 
by a row of smaller black dots, other preterminal markings grey 
argyrolemma, spec. nov. 
If preterminal markings black, then not thus shaped 44 
44. A subtriangular black dot before lower half of termen 
anthracobathra Meyrick 
No such dot 45 
45. Preterminal dots black 46 
Preterminal dots fuscous-grey or dark grey 47 
46. Those dots fine, forming a slender Y-shaped preterminal mark 
aphrodes spec. nov. 
Those dots largor, rather irregularly scattered in vertical rows, a long row 
arising from tomus affinis spec. nov. 
47. Prolongations of costal dots suffused with pink .... soiocosma Meyrick 
Not thus 
48. A pale grey spot on middle of costa, and an oblique rather broad streak from 
below and before this to beyond middle of dorsum . . . pallida spec. nov. 
Two round suffused large pale grey spots in disc before middle, and at s / 4 , 
respectively, a narrow curved pale grey transverse line at l / 5 ; costal dots darker 
grey operosa spec. nov. 
These markings more distinct, narrowed, suffused with blackish-grey except 
on dorsum canescens spec. nov. 
49. A streak along anterior s / 6 of costa strongly dilated in middle of disc, a rounded 
spot in tomus and a subtriangular spot before middle of termen, conspicuous, 
dark reddish-brown rhodantha spec. nov. 
Not thus 
50. Densely suffused with dark grey; a blackish triangular or subquadrate spot 
below middle of disc at l / 3 , fading out towards dorsum, narrowly connected 
with a semiovate spot on */ 4 of costa antliracospila spec. nov. 
Not thus suffused and marked 51 
51. Dark markings formed by a moderate, subquadratc costal patch, a more or 
less extended suffusion in middle or beyond middle of disc, somotimes confluent 
with the latter, and a transverse streak before termen, sometimes confluent 
with a round spot in tornus ; discal tuft mostly distinct, raised, conspicuously 
white 
