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4177. a. Crambus dianiphalis, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 10). 



Forewing with vein 11 curved and approximated to 12 ; both wings with veins 

 4*5 stalked. 



£ . Head and thorax white ; palpi at sides and patagia tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Forewing white suffused and irrora- 

 ted with pale red-brown, the costal area deep red-brown ; a white fascia from 

 base through the cell topostmedial line, thence diffused to termen below apex; an 

 oblique irregular black-brown discoidal bar, dilated below ; a very highly dentate 

 postmedial line from costal area to inner margin, some of the teeth almost 

 reaching termen ; a fine brown terminal line. Hindwing greyish brown.. 



$ . Forewing with the white fascia narrower and not reaching beyond post- 

 medial line, the discoidal bar obsolescent. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (Green). Exp. 28 mill. Type in B. M. 



4185. b. Platytes argyrotricha, n. sp. 



Forewing with vein 10 stalked with 8-9 ; 11 anastomosing with 12. 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen white tinged with rufous, the last with some 

 fuscous irroration. Forewing white suffused with rufous except on costal and 

 inner areas and sparsely irrorated with large black scales ; the terminal half of 

 costa with three oblique rufous striae and two oblique lines from costa to vein 7 

 near termen, the apex white with a yellow patch ; a fine terminal dark line from 

 costa to vein 4 followed by a yellow patch extending to submedian fold with 

 two black points on it ; cilia silvery with a fine dark line near base. Hindwing 

 white tinged with pale yellow-brown except at apex ; cilia with two fine brown 

 lines on apical half. 



Habitat. —Assam, Khasis. Exp. 18 mill. Type in B. M. 



4193. a. Platytes acroperalis, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 11). 



Head and thorax pale brown mixed with whitish ; abdomen grey, dorsally 

 tinged with fuscous. Forewing very narrow, the apex produced, the termen 

 very oblique ; pale red-brown mixed with white ; a white fascia on median 

 nervure ; an interrupted black streak in submedian fold from before middle 

 to termen and another in discal fold from middle of cell to beyond the cell ; an 

 ablique, minutely dentate postmedial line, the aiea beyond it mostly white ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing pale fuscous brown. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (Green). Exp. 14 mill. Type in B. M. 



SCHCENOBIANyE. 



4255. b. Patissa intersticalis. n. sp. (Plate E., f. 30). 



£ . White ; palpi blackish at sides ; mid and hind legs tinged with fuscous. 



Forewing with broad brown streaks in all the interspaces. Hindwing pure 

 white. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Kosland, 1,000' (Mackwood). Exp. 24 mill. Type in B.M 



Anerastian^. 



4290. a. Anerastia stictella, n. sp. 



Palpi of male hollowed out to receive the brush-like maxillary palpi, antennae 

 with sinus at base of shaft containing a ridge of scales. 



