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fuscous with pale patches towards base of wings ; the discoidal iunules 

 distinct. 



Habitat.— Sikhim, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 30 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4442a. Macalla plicatalis, n. sp. 



£. Palpi with the 2nd joint short, the 3rd very long and hollowed out 

 to contain the brush-like maxillary palpi ; antennae ciliated with no tuft of 

 scales behind them. Hindwing with the inner area dilated, forming a 

 large fold containing rough fulvous scales on underside. 



Head and thorax pale olive-brown ; abdomen with the basal half yellow on 

 dorsum, the terminal half and ventral surface ochreous, irrorated with 

 fuscous. Forewing pale olive-brown with a thinly scaled patch on disk ; 

 some black scales on costa before middle and small tufts at middle and end 

 of cell ; an indistinct diffused dentate black line curved from costa to vein 2, 

 then retracted to below end of cell ; cilia pinkish with a series of black points. 

 Hindwing seraihyaline white ; the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; tha 

 inner area ochreous ; cilia pinkish with a series of black points. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Matale (J. Pole). Exp. 32 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4446a. Macalla metasarcia, n. sp. (PI. C, f . 32.) 



9- Head and thorax ochreous, mixed with black; abdomen pinkish- 

 ochreous, banded with black. ForewiDg pinkish-ochreous, almost entirely 

 suffused with olive-black ; prominent tufts of raised scales at middle and 

 end of cell; an indistinct pale antemedial line; a postmedial line, highly 

 excurved at middle, defined on inner sides by a black line, with a diffused 

 pinkish-ochreous area on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia pinkish with a black line through them. Hindwing flesh-color ; a curved 

 black postmedial line obsolescent towards costa and inner margin and with 

 black not on vein 2 ; a terminal band, wide at apex, tapering to a point at 

 anal angle ; cilia with a fuscous line through them. 



Habitat.— Sikhim, 1800' ( Dudgeon). Exp. 22 mill. Type— In B. M. 



4449. Macalla Margarita. 



$. Palpi with the extremity of 2nd and the 3rd joint fringed with long 

 scales, the 3rd joint curved forward into a hook ; maxillary palpi triangular 

 and flattened against the frons ; vertex of head hollowed out between an- 

 tenna?, with tufts of scales from above eyes meeting over vertex ; antennas 

 with long cilia for half their length, then with short cilia. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Hambantota (J. Pole). 



4453a. CjENC-domus fumosalis, n. sp. (PI. C, f. 30.) 



Dull olive-brown and fuscous. Forewing with obscure antemedial, medial 

 and postmedial dark bands ; a streak of black and white hair in submedian 

 fold, another streak from middle of cell to near termen and a shorter streak 

 above vein 6, the postmedial line excurved at middle. Hindwing with 

 medial ridge of black and white hair and streaks in the interspaces towards 

 apax- ; an obscure pale postmedial line excurved and dentate at middle. 



Habitat.— Khasis. Exp. $ 32, $ 40 mill. Tyves—ln Coll. Rothschild and 

 B.M. 



