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METANASTRIA. By Dr. K. Grunberg. 
stigmata. 
undans. 
h yrtaca. 
repanda. 
recta. 
obliquifas- 
eia. 
subpurpu- 
rea. 
1 ineata 
albisparsa. 
arizana. 
dor a. 
form stigmata Btlr. it is present in both sexes. The ground-colouring is often lighter than in the but it 
invariably shows a reddish tint. — North India: Sikkim (Darjeeling), Bhutan. 
M. undans Wkr. ( = exceliens Btlr.) (34 d). This species passes over to the palearctic region with 
some East Asiatic forms (see Vol. II, p. 173, under Dendrolimus). Body and wings light brown, forewing with 
a white discal spot and different prediscal and postdiscal light yellowish macular bands which, being very close 
together, leave free the middle of the wing and a broad marginal part; submarginal spots closely approaching 
the bands and agreeing with them in colour. Hindwing uni-coloured. Under surface with a discal band exten¬ 
ding across both wings and a less distinct distal band. $ lighter, greyish-brown with a somewhat reddish tint, 
the marking more diffuse and more drawn apart. Bands beneath only distinct at the costal margin of the 
forewing. North India: Silhet, Khasia Hills. 
M. hyrtaca Cr. (34 e). The species is already described and figured in the palearctic part (Vol. II. 
p. 177, t. 29 a), where also the larva is described. The whole of South Asia from Ceylon to the Himalaya and 
China; also in the Sunda Islands. 
M. repanda Wkr. (32 b). Closely allied to hyrtaca and perhaps only a form of it. The black spot on 
the forewing of the is smaller and narrower, the white discal spot is situate at its proximal margin. In the 
$ the proximal postdiscal band is more strongly broken towards the costal margin. In both sexes the submarginal 
spots are darker. North India and Assam. 
M. recta Wkr. (34 e). Light greyish-brown, similar to M. aconyta (34 c), but the 4 transverse bands 
of the forewing are quite rectilinear and parallel. The submarginal spots distinct, at least in the 9- North India. 
M. obliquifascia Swh. Deep dark red-brown, hindwings lighter. Forewing with an indistinct dark 
streak proceeding from the base and being behind the middle bent up to the costal margin, and with an almost 
rectilinear, deep chestnut-brown, distallv lighter oblique band extending from the costal margin close before 
the apex to the middle of the proximal margin; behind it an irregular row of light spots, the space between 
the latter and the oblique band dark red-brown. Sikkim (Darjeeling). 
M. subpurpurea Btlr. ( — dieckmanni Graes., rubra Hmps.) (Vol. II, t. 26 c). Distributed from the 
Amur District and Japan to North India and already described in the ,,Fauna palaearctica“ (Vol. II, p. 161) 
and figured there. Hampson himself (1897, Journ. Bomb. Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 11, p. 294) already placed his 
rubra as a synonym to dieckmanni Graes. Of a bright dark red-brown, palpi black, vertex and thoracal dorsum 
brownish-yellow. Forewing strewn with yellowish scales, with a dark discal spot and a yellowish prediscal 
and postdiscal band only distinct at the costal and proximal margins; near the base begins a triangular, blackish 
marking extending to the apex and distal margin, leaving free the costal-marginal and proximal-marginal 
parts as well as vein 5. Hindwing of a brighter red, with a dark margin. 
M. lineata Mr. (— fuscomarginata Swh.) (35 c). Head, thorax and forewing reddish greyish-brown, 
abdomen and hindwings lighter. Antennae and palpi blackish. Forewing parted by a blackish longitudinal 
streak extending from the base towards the margin, with several narrow, dentate, partly indistinct, blackish 
transverse bands and a series of blackish submarginal spots. Both wings beneath with a blackish discal band 
interrupted before the proximal margin, in the forewing besides with the beginnings of a prediscal and post¬ 
discal band and a row of submarginal spots. Sikkim (Darjeeling). 
M. albisparsa Wil. Head and thorax red-brown, abdomen lighter; patagia densely intermixed with 
white scales. Forewing reddish-brown, along the veins strewn with whitish scales, with a white discal spot, 
behind which a dark, interrupted streak extends to the apex. On the inner-marginal part 3 dark oblique bands 
bordered with whitish. Hindwing and under surface brown. Expanse of wings: B 60, 9 80 mm. Formosa. 
M. arizana Wil. £ forewing reddish-brown with a white discal spot, as well as a black antemedian 
and postmedian dentate line, the former broken in the middle and proximally bordered with whitish, the latter 
bent; the discal area between the two lines dark red-brown; the blackish submarginal spots distally edged 
with grey are particularly distinct before the proximal margin and connected by a dark line; in the middle 
of the proximal margin a dark red-brown shade. Hindwing pale reddish-brown with slightly darker narrow 
median bands. 9 much darker, the reddish tint only noticeable in the basal and submarginal parts of the wings. 
Expanse of wings: 54, 9 92 mm. Formosa. 
M. dora Swh. allied with M. latipennis Wkr. (34 b, c). Deep dark and lustrous reddish-brown, 
forewing with a distinct white discal spot and a blackish antemedian and postmedian undulate arcuate line, 
