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4384a. Hypsipyla psarella, n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen grey, mixed with brown ; abdomen with 

 segmental white lines. Forewing gvey, thickly irrorated with brown ; an 

 antemedial white line oblique from costa to below cell, where it is acutely 

 angled, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; a dark discocellular lunule ; a 

 minutely dentate white subterminal line, slightly bent outwards at middle ; a 

 series of dark terminal points. Hindwing semibyaline white, the termen 

 and costa tinged with fuscous. 



Habitat— Sikhim, 1800' (Dudgeon) ; Puttalam, Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 26 

 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4384&. Hypsipyla elachistalis, n. sp. 



ft. Maxillary palpi dilated and flattened against frons which is conical and 

 prominent. 



Head and thorax grey, mixed with fuscous, the shoulders tinged with olive- 

 yellow ; abdomen grey. Forewing grey ; the costal area tinged with olive- 

 yellow ; the basal area suffused with fuscous and vinous scales ; a medial 

 black line with an ochreous band on its inner side oblique from costa to 

 discal fold, then erect ; two fuscous and vinous discoidal points ; the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous and vinous scales obliquely from apex to middle 

 of inner margin ; a pale subterminal line defined on each side by black and 

 slightly bent outwards at vein 6 ; an ill-defined terminal series of black 

 points. Hindwing white, tinged with fuscous ; cilia of both wings with a dark 

 line through them. 



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



4384c. Hypsipyla rotundipex, n. sp. (PI. C, f. 26.) 



Antennas of male laminate ; forewing with the basal half of costa fringed 

 with long hair, the apex rounded. 



ft. Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen reddish-brown. Forewing 

 black-brown, with rufous streaks below submedian fold and vein 1 and 

 between veins of outer area. Hindwing semibyaline brown with a rufous 

 tinge, the veins and fine terminal line and line through the cilia darker. 



Habitat .— Sikhim, 2600' (Pilcher). Exp. 36 mill. Type— -In B. M. 



4386a. Phycita hemipexella, n. sp. 



ft. Antennas of male with large sinus and tuft ; the basal half of shaft 

 bipectinate with diminishing branches ; maxillary palpi triangular, flattened 

 against the frons. 



Head, thorax and abdomen ochreous ; thorax suffused with purplish- 

 fuscous, except the front of tegulas and shoulders ; abdomen irrorated with 

 purplish-fuscous. Forewing ochreous, the costal area and cell suffused with 

 black, leaving an ochreous discoidal spot ; a blackish antemedial patch below 

 the cell ; the postmedial line indistinct, angled beyond the cell, then very 

 oblique and ending at vein 1 ; traces of a waved subterminal line •, the inner 

 area irrorated with purplish-red. Hindwing semihyaline whitish, the costal area 

 tinged with fuscous ; a fine brownish terminal line and a line through the cilia 



