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Genus. Mesciniadia. TjP e « 



Mesciniadia, Hmpsn., Rom. Mem., viii, p. 121 (1901) infractalis. 



Proboscis clothed with scales towards base ; palpi erect, the 3rd joint as long 

 as the 2nd extending to well above vertex of head and with a triangular tuft 

 of black scales in front ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons smooth ; antennas of 

 male with tufts of scales at the joints. Forewing long and narrow •, veins 2 and 3 

 strongly stalked from angle of cell, sometimes from a point in female ; 4-f> 

 strongly stalked fin the Ceylon specimen coincident J from angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 8-9-10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with the costa strongly 

 arched near base and with tuft of long hair on upper side below costa ; cell long; 

 vein 2 from angle ; 3 and 5 strongly stalked, 4 absent; 6*7 stalked : 8 anasto- 

 mosing with 7 to near apex. 



4325. b. Mesciniadia infractalis. Wlk. xxx, 958 (1864) ; Hmpsn. Rom. 

 Mem. viii, p. 121, pi. 48, f. 7. 



Head, thorax and abdomen pale brownish ochreous ; palpi black at tips 

 Forewing pale brownish ochreous irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous except at costa ; the 1st line indistinct, blackish, oblique 

 below the cell, with a rufous tinge before it on inner area and slight blackish 

 mark beyond it in and below cell ; a slight blackish discoidal point ; a post- 

 medial blackish point on costa. Hindwing semi-hyaline whitish, the veins and 

 termen tinged with brown. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (Alston) ; Borneo, Sarawak. Exp. 12 mill. 

 4332. b. Heterographis falsalis, n. sp. 



5. Head, thorax and abdomen brownish ochreous mixed with grey; tarsi 

 fuscous tinged with white. Forewing grey tinged with ochreous and irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a diffused patch of black scales on inner area before the 1st line 

 which is almost medial, blackish defined by pale grey on inner side, excurvea 

 from custa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and oblique to inner 

 margin ; two prominent black discoidal points, the lower rather elongate ; the 2nd 

 line subterminal, pale grey slightly defined on each side by fuscous and blackish 

 points, slightly angled inwards at vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind- 

 wing white ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine brown line near base 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Habitat. — Madras, Gooty (Campbell). Exp. 20 mill. Type in B. M. 

 4341. d. Euzopherodes albistrigella, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 13.) 

 Forewing with veins 3-5 from cell ; 10 from cell. 



Head and thorax greyish fuscous ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous. Fore- 

 wing fuscous brown with grey-white streaks in the interspaces to the subter- 

 minal grey line which is oblique and angled inwards in submedian fold ; termen 

 with some grey irroration and a series of black points. Hindwing pale semi- 

 hyaline tinged with fuscous, especially towards termen. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole). Exp. 30 mill. Type in B. M. 

 4341. e. Euzopherodes proledcalis, n. sp. \ 



Forewing with veins 3-5 from cell, 10 from cell. 



