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space ; slight black annuli in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; the 

 postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 4, then retracted to below end 

 of cell, sometimes with a patch of black suffusion in its sinus ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hindwing with small black discoidal spot ; the 

 postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below 

 end of cell, a terminal series of black points. 



Habitat: — Nilgiris (Cardew, Hampson). Exp. 26 mill. Type— In B. M. 

 4960b. Sylepta picalis, n. sp. (PI. C, f. 9.) 



ft. Head and tegulae fuscous ; vertex of head with a whitish patch ; thorax 

 white ; abdomen white banded with black above ; wings white, the veins 

 strongly streaked with black. Forewing with the costal area black ; a black 

 spot near base of inner margin ; an oblique black streak between vein 1 

 and middle of inner margin ; a short streak below base of vein 2 ; spots 

 in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; the terminal third of wing black 

 tinged with purplish grey. Hindwing with discoidal black spot ; a post- 

 medial line excurved between veins 5 and 2 ; cilia black and white on inner 

 half of wing. 



9. With the white area rather more extensive; forewing with small 

 white postmedial spots above and below vein 7. 

 Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 48 mill. Types — In Coll. Rothschild and B. M. 

 4970. Sylepta multilinealis insert Pyralis derogata, Fabr. Syst. Ent., p. 

 041 (1775), which has priority. 



Larva white ; head brown ; thoracic segments with brown dorsal patches ; 

 terminal segments with fuscous dorsal spots ; legs dark(Fellowes Wilson). 

 4972a. Sylepta homomorpha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1894, p. 462. 

 9. Fulvous orange ; palpi white below ; fore tibiae and the tarsi banded 

 with fuscous ; forewing with fuscous point on inner margin near base ; an 

 obliquely sinuous antemedial line bent inwards to costa, incurved in snbme- 

 dian fold and with slight spots on it in and below cell ; a point at middle of 

 cell and discoidal lunule ; the postmedial line bent outwards and dentate 

 between veins 6 and 3, then retracted to below end of cell and excurved 

 again. Hindwing with discoidal bar ; the postmedial line bent outwards 

 and dentate between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below end of cell and 

 excurved again ; both wings with dark terminal line and the cilia fuscous. 

 Habitat. — Ceylon, Gampola ; Pulo Laut. Exp. 32 mill. 

 4976. Sylepta quadrimaculalis insert Nagia incomitata Swinh. A. M. N. 

 H. (7), VIII, p. 25 (1900) $ nee. 9 (1894). 



5014. Glyphodes marginata. Larva yellow with a pair of subdorsal black 

 spots on each somite with short black streaks below them ; head with a pair 

 of black points ; legs black. Pupa pale marked and streaked with red-brown 

 (Fellowes Wilson). 



5018. Glyphodes glauculalis. Larva green, thoracic somites paler ; head 

 orange ; 1st somite with conjoined dorsal black streaks, the others with clusters 

 of black and white points and lateral spots ; legs black. Pupa pale and dark 

 brown (Fellowes Wilson). 



