posticata. 
imidialis. 
p udica. 
216 MESOOOPSIS; POLYORYCTA. By W. Warren. 
brown costal strigae; the inner and median lines hardly marked below cell; the outer acutely angled outwards on 
vein 6, then oblique and straight inwards to middle of inner margin, edged outwardly with pale, met at the 
angle by a brown streak from apex, which contains a round brown spot with a white dash at its lower end; 
four dark spots in cell, one at base, the second on inner line the third representing the orbicular stigma, the fourth 
larger at end of cell; subterminal line formed of dark spots between the veins, preceded by a row of similar spots 
on the veins, and really a continuation of the outer line from the angle; a slight festooned line before termen; 
fringe deep brown at base; hindwing with the straight line continued just before middle, not reaching above 
cell, followed by the outer and subterminal rows of spots; costa broadly whitish; fringe deep brown with the 
tips pale; underside much paler and greyer; the median striga, the outer row of spots and two spots in cell 
blackish; hindwing with scarcely any markings; head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 3 $$ from the Khasia 
Hills, Assam. 
21. Genus: Mesocopsis gen. nov. 
Characterised by the termen of hindwing having a wide insinuation in middle between veins 3 and 
5; the termen of forewing evenly curved. Type M. posticata Walk. 
M. posticata Walk. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and in parts with rufous; inner line waved, 
oblique, very obscure; outer line sharply angled outwards on cell fold beyond cell, externally white edged; 
subterminal whitish, denticulate, with short black streaks beyond it; the termen rufous with a fine 
minutely waved whitish line before it; fringe rufous, with dark patches at apex, middle, and tornus; 
cell spot a white lunule with black striae on each side, a short black streak before it, and another beyond 
it reaching outer line; hindwing like fore wing; some black scales near base; cellspot whitish with black 
dot before it; outer line sinuous, whitish, with black scales on inner side and on outer side also at costa. 
Sarawak, Borneo, and Pulo Laut. 
22. Genus: I*olyorycta Wan. 
A development of Porphyrinia, from which it is separated by the forewing of the <$ having on the 
underside 4 long grooves just beyond the cell between costa and vein 5; the palpi straight, obliquely 
porrect, and well-developed. Type P. dimidialis F. 
P. dimidialis F. (= secta Guen., hemirhoda Walk., roseifascia Walk., adulans Fldr., basilissa Meyr.) 
(Vol. 3, PI. 51b). Forewing with basal area yellow, limited by an oblique white line minutely angled close 
below costa at %; outer line pale, straight or faintly curved and towards costa inbent and crenulate 
to the angle of median line, the included space bright deep rosy, wider on inner margin; space between 
outer and submarginal lines, except at costa, olive brown, beyond submarginal again rosy; fringe rosy tipped 
with white; hindwing luteous whitish, suffused with ruddy grey along inner and outer margins. A species of 
wide distribution, found in India, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, Java, Formosa, New Guinea, Queensland; 
also in the extreme East of the palaearctic region, Japan and China. 
P. pudica Snell (= acontioides Moore, interrupta Moore) (22 b). Forewing pale ochreous; the costal 
area whiter to beyond middle, the costal edge rufous at base, then black; a black dot in cell near base; 
inner line punctiform, incurved in cell, angled outwards on median vein, then oblique to inner margin; a black 
dot in cell at middle; a dark brown shade, inwardly diffuse, oblique from outer line below costa to 
middle of inner margin; a black striga from costa above end of cell; outer line fine, black, oblique from 
costa, then minutely waved, and incurved below vein 4; beyond it below costa a black mark meeting an 
oblique reel brown bar from apex; the costa redbrown towards apex; subterminal line whitish, minutely dentate, 
with a row of small black lunules on its outer edge except towards costa; terminal area suffused with biown, 
except at apex; hindwing similar; a wedge shaped brown patch above middle of inner margin, with, a 
black bar on its outer edge; outer line punctiform from cell fold to inner margin; a subterminal series 
of dark spots, with oblique striae defined internally by ochreous on termen below veins 3 and 2. Bengal, 
Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, Java, Celebes. 
