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middle ; a black terminal line ; cilia with fine black line near base and slight 

 line near tips. Hindwing white tinged with brown ; a brown terminal line. 

 Habitat. — Beloochistan, Quetta (Nurse). Exp. 16 mill. Type in B. M. 

 4383. a. Myelois albicostalis, n. sp. 



9 . Head and thorax whitish tinged with brown ; palpi with the 3rd joint 

 long and banded with black ; abdomen white, dorsally slightly tinged with brown. 

 Forewing whitish suffused with pale ochreous brown and with white fascia on 

 costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, white, bent inwards to costa ; a crimson 

 patch on middle of inner margin ; subterminal line white, excurved and very 

 minutely waved at middle, with a small crimson spot before it on inner margin ; 

 a terminal series of slight black points. Hindwina' white faintly tinged with 

 brown ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia white. 

 Habitat.— Ceylon, Matale ('Pole). Exp. 14 mill. 

 4387. b. Phycita deodaealis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous-brown scales ; tarsi banded 

 fuscous and white ; abdomen grey- white irrorated with fuscous and with slight 

 fuscous dorsal line. Forewing white faintly tinged with olive and irrorated 

 with brown ; diffused oblique subbasal and antemedial fuscous brown bands 

 from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; the 1st line almost medial, diffused, 

 fuscous strongly defined by white on inner side, oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold, then slightly incurved ; two large discoidal fuscous points with 

 a faint incurved diffused line from the lower to inner margin ; subterminal 

 line strong, white defined by fuscous on inner side, excurved at middle and 

 slightly angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points ; cilia whitish mixed with pale brown. Hindwing whitish 

 tinged with brown, the cilia white. 



Habitat.— Kashmir, Dras (Leech). Exp. 22-26 mill. Type in B.M. 

 4389. Phycita cyclogramma. Maxillary palpi of male brush-like in a 

 hollow of the labial palpi ; antennae with sinus and double tuft at base and 

 uniseriate branches. Allied to P.pectemlla. 



4389. b. Phycita endomel/ena, n. sp. (Plate E, f. 33). 

 Head and thorax grey mixed with a few fuscous scales, the tegulas faintly 

 tinged with purplish red ; palpi black except at tips ; legs tinged with brown, 

 the tarsi fuscous ringed with grey ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore- 

 wing grey irrorated with red-brown especially on costal area ; the basal half of 

 inner margin blackish expanding into a large patch before the 1st line which is 

 medial, grey defined on each side by red-brown suffusion, oblique, very slightly 

 sinuous ; the discoidal points represented by two minute black streaks and two 

 minute streaks beyond lower angle of cell ; subterminal line grey, defined on 

 each side by red-brown, excurved below costa, then slightly oblique ; a terminal 

 series of prominent black points ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base. Hind- 

 wing semi-hyaline grey white ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia whitish with 

 dark line through them. 



