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is oblique, angled inwards below apex and pale ; a fine dark terminal line. 

 Hindwing pale brownish, with fine dark terminal and cilial lines. 

 Habitat.— Ceylon, Nawalapittya. Exp. 20 mill. Type— la. B. M. 



Genus Ptyomaxia, nov. 

 Type — P. trigoniphora, Hmpsn. 

 Range — Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head, the third joiut well 

 developed ,• maxillary palpi small, dilated with scales, flattened against the 



frons ; antennas of male laminate 

 with large sinus and tuft at base. 

 Forewing with costal fold ; veins 

 3'4'5 from angle of cell ; 8'9'10 

 stalked. Hindwing with the cell 

 about one-third of wing ; vein 2 

 from angle ; 3"4'5 stalked ; 6"7 

 Ptyomaxia trigonifera $ I stalked ; 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4349a. Ptyomaxia trigonifera, n. sp. 



£. Pale yeilowish-brown ; antennae with the tuft red-brown. Forewing 

 with oblique diffused medial whitish line with large dark red-brown patch 

 beyond it, its base on costa extending almost to apex, its apex on vein 1. 

 Hindwing suffused with fuscous, the cilia pale. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Puttalaro (J. Pole). Exp. 16 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4351a. Nephopteryx hypocautella, n. sp. 



£ . Maxillary palpi flattened against the frons ; antennas without sinus and 

 tuft ; forewing with the cell on underside clothed with ferruginous red scales. 



Head, thorax and abdomen clothed with white and grey-brown scales. 

 Forewing irrorated brown and white ; a brownish-ochreous band just before 

 middle with two tufts of vinous red scales on its inner side below the cell, 

 with a fine white line on their inner side, a purplish spot on costa on outer edge 

 of band ; traces of the discoidal points and of a sinuous subterminal line. 

 Hindwing semihyaline white, the terminal half tinged with brown. 



Habitat. — Deesa (Nurse). Exp. 14 mill. Type — In B. M. 



4359a. Nephopteryx rivdlella, Bag. Nov. Gen., p. 18; id., Rom. Mem., 

 VII.,p.294,pl.XLI.,f. 14. 



Head white ; thorax purplish-brown, mixed with white ; abdomen brown 

 with segmental white lines. Forewing cupreous-brown with a purplish 

 gloss ; some ochreous at base of inner margin ; the 1st line almost medial, 

 fine sinuous and placed on a broad somewhat diffused white band ; the post- 

 medial line very indistinct, white, sinuous. Hindwing semihyaline white, the 

 costa and termen brown ; a brown line through the cilia. 



Habitat— W. Africa, Accra ; Deesa ; Ceylou ; Penang. Exp. 16 mill. 



4359&. Nephopteryx fumosella, Bag. AnD. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1887, p. 229 ; 

 id., Bom. Mem., VII., p. 246, pi. IX, f. 4. 



