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with a pencil of long black hair from it on underside, the termen with the 

 lower lobe produced and as long as the middle lobe. 



Head and thorax olive green ; antennae black ; pectus, legs and abdomen 

 grey tinged with fuscous, the last with the basal segment ochreous on dorsum 

 with a black segmental line. Fore wing olive green with eleven ii regularly 

 waved narrow fuscous bands, the olive area with raised shining scales ; an 

 oblique black discoidal bar ; the postmedial line angled outwards below veins 

 6 and 4 and above 2, the subterminal line forming somewhat dentate marks. 

 Hindwing uniform pale fuscous, the terminal lobe in male black. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (J. Pole). Exp. 32 mill. Type in B.M. 



Acidalian/e. 



3864. a. Craspedia polystigmaria insert (syn.) Craspedia elyra, Swinh., 

 A. M. N. H. (7), xvi, p. 62* (1905). 



3*96. b Ai idalia carpheraria insert (syn.) Anthometra unipvncla, Swinh., 

 A.M.N H. (7) xvi, p., (1905). 



3896. d. Acidalia ph^nicearia, n sp. (Plato E., f. 39). 



$. Head ochreous; palpi and sides of frons tinged with purple; thorax 

 purplish red ; abdomen ochreous with dorsal purplish I ands on basal seg- 

 ments ; legs yellowish tinged with purple ; pectus and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white. Forewing purplish red overlying ochreous ; traces of an 

 antemedial liae. cblique from costa to submedian fold, then waved ; a dark 

 discoidal spot, postmedial line de6ned by ochreous on outer side, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, then excurved to vein 2 and incurved 

 to inner margin ; a fine red terminal line ; cilia pale at tips. Hindwing purplish 

 red overlying ochreous ; a: slight? discoidal point ; postmedial line slight ly 

 defined by ochreous on outer side, incurved from costa to vein 5, then 

 excurved ; a fine red terminal line ; cilia pale at tips. Underside of both wings 

 ochreous, the terminal area suffused with purplish red. 



Habitat.— Afghanistan, Peshin Valley (Nurstt). Exp. 26-30 mill. Type in B.M. 



3909. b. Acidalia phcenicogladca n. sp. 



9. Head, thorax and abdomen pale olive suffused with dull purplish red, 

 forewing pale olive suffused and irrorated with dull purplish red ; a slight dark 

 subbasal mark on median nervure ; &•> indistinct rather oblique pale olive ante- 

 medial line not quite reaching costa ; a black discoida ! point ; an indistinct 

 curved olive subterminal line ; the terminal half of inner area and the terminal 

 area except at apex pale olive with hardly any purple suffusion. Hind- 

 wing pale olive suffused and irrorated with dull purplish red except 

 the termen ; indistinct minutely waved olive postmedial and subterminal 

 lines ; a series of slight daik points at base of cilia ; the underside olive whitish, 

 slight sinuous reddish medial and postmedial lines and a pale minutely waved 

 subterminal line defined on each side by purplbh red, a black discoidal point. 



Habitat Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole). Exp. 22 mill. Type in B. M. 



3919. b. Chrysocraspeda conspicuaria, Swinh., A. M.N. H. (7), xv., p. 166, 

 (1905). 



