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Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole, Alston ). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B.M. 



4390. a. Phycita euzonalis, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; vertex of head whitish ; palpi 

 whitish banded with brown ; legs banded with fuscous, the tarsi with slight pale 

 rings ; abdomen grey-brown with slight white segmental lines. Forewing with 

 the base brown slightly irrorated with white; a broad antemedial band ochreous 

 on inner side, white on outer and at costa, defined on each side by lines of 

 raised metallic blackish scales ; medial area suffused with dark-brown ; a 

 diffused white patch from costa to lower angle of cell with the two brown 

 discoidal points on it ; terminal area whitish suffused and irrorated with yellow- 

 brown ; subterminal line white defined on each side by dark brown , slightly 

 excurved below vein 6 ; a series of slight black points just before termen ; a fine 

 yellow-brown terminal line. Hindwing semihyaline white, the veins and apex 

 tinged with brown ; a fine brown terminal line and brown line near base of cilia. 



£. Head, thorax and base of abdomen more rufous, the terminal part of 

 abdomen and anal tuft blackish ; hind tibiae strongly dilated and with large 

 black patch ; forewing with the basal area tinged with rufous, the terminal half 

 more uniform brown. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole), Madulsima (Vaughan). Exp. 26-28 mill. 



4394. a. Phycita dei in alis, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 21). 



9. Head, thorax and abdomen yellow-brown mixed with whitish; palpi 

 black at tips ; fore legs fuscous ; hind legs white with blackish marks on tibise 

 at middle, on inner side at extremity and on spurs, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white. Forewing yellow-brown with dark irroration, the costal area white 

 irrorated with black ; antemedial line black defined by white on inner side, very 

 oblique from costa to median nervure.then erect ; two prominent black discoidal 

 points ; subterminal line black defined by white on outer side, oblique, somewhat 

 incurved and very slightly angled outwards at middle ; a punctiform black 

 terminal line. Hindwing whitish tinged with brown and with fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia brownish white with fine pale line at base. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole). Exp. 14 mill. Type in B.M. 



4410. c. Rhodoph^ea albirenalis, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 22). 



$. Head and thorax yellow-brown tinged with whitish; palpi with black 

 marks on sides of joints and the extremity of 3rd joint black ; femora and tibiae 

 whitish irrorated with fuscous, the hind tibia with black patch on inner side at 

 extremity and the spurs black ; abdomen yellow-brown. Forewing ochreous 

 brown with some dark irroration, the costal area whitish ; antemedial line blackish 

 defined by white on inner side, angled outwards on subcostal and median 

 nervures and inwards in cell, incurved below the cell ; a white discoidal lunule 

 with slight dark points above and on outer side and a slight streak above it 

 on costa ; subterminal line white defined on each side by blackish, the black on 

 outer side bent outwards to apex, angled outwards below costa, then sinuous ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; a pale line at base of cilia. Hindwing pale 

 brown, the termen slightly darker ; cilia whitish with a dark line through them. 



