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Habitat— Sikhim, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 18 mill. Type— In B. M. 



43866. Phycita ph^eella, n. sp. 



$ . Maxillary palpi flattened against the frons ; antenna) with a large 

 sinus and tuft at base. 



Head and thorax dark-brown, tinged with grey and irrorated with a few 

 blackish scales ; abdomen brown. Forewing dark-brown, suffused with grey 

 and irrorated with blackish scales ; a slight medial dark streak on vein 1, a 

 series of postmedial streaks and some dark points on termen. Hindwing 

 hyaline white ; the fringes of hair on median nervure and base of vein 1 

 brown ; the termen and base of cilia brown. 



Habitat.— Deesa (Nurse). Exp. 22 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4393. Phycita steniella. 



$ . Maxillary palpi filiform ; antennae with the basal joint dilated and 

 angled behind, the shaft with large sinus ending with a tuft of scales. 



4403a. Phycita erythrolophia, n. sp. 



Maxillary palpi of male brush-like in hollow of labial palpi ; antennae 

 laminate, ciliated with large hollowed out tuft at base of shaft ; mid-tibiae 

 with fold containing a tuft of vinous hair ; claspers and anal tuft very large, 

 the latter tinged with vinous ; hindwing with the base streaked with vinous 

 scales on underside, a small hyaline streak above base of vein 2. 



£. Grey, tinged with brown; head blackish. Forewing irrorated with 

 brown ; an oblique antemedial ridge of large black scales across cell and 

 submedian interspace ; a medial whitish line, slightly defined by brown, 

 oblique from costa to below cell where it is angled ; the discoidal points black 

 and obliquely placed ; the subterminal line white, defined by brown, dentate, 

 augled outwards on vein 6 ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing 

 semihyaline, the veins and margins brownish. 



9. Head not blackish. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Matale (Pole). Exp: $ 24, $ 20 mill. Tijpe— -In B. M. 



4497a. Phycita ardentia, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax dark-rufous ; abdomen pale yellow-brown. Forewing 

 purplish red-brown ; a pinkish white medial line angled inwards on vein 1 

 and with some purplish grey on its outer edge ; a dark discoidal lunule ; 

 a whitish subterminal line obtusely angled on vein 5 ; a fine dark terminal 

 line. Hindwing whitish semihyaline, the apical area tinged with fuscous ; a 

 fine dark terminal line and line through the cilia. 



Habitat— Sikhim, 7000' (Pilcher). Exp. 20 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4407/'. Phycita ochralis, n. sp. 



Autennae of male with slight sinus at base of shaft with black scale teeth 

 in it. 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen ochreous ; palpi and legs irrorated with 

 fuscous. Forewing ochreous ; the costal edge black, the costal area suffused 

 with black and white scales towards apex ; a diffused patch of rufous 

 and black scales on inner area before middle; the cilia fuscous and white. 



