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Ancylis thaler a, n. sp. 



£$. 13 -1 5 mm. Head and thorax fulvous-ochreous, face whitish. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous mixed or suffused with grey, beneath white towards base, 

 second joint tufted with long scales beneath. Abdomen dark-grey. Forewings 

 elongate, costa moderately arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen concave, 

 little oblique, rounded beneath ; ochreous, obscurely strigulated with fulvous, 

 posterior half suffused with deeper fulvous ; costa with pairs of obscure pale 

 strigulse, separated by a few blackish scales, last five emitting short oblique 

 leaden-metallic streaks, second of these extended as a very oblique striga to 

 near termen beneath apex ; a triangular tornal blotch mixed with grey and 

 grey-whitish, becoming leaden-metallic towards apex, anterior edge oblique, so 

 that apex is near middle of termen ; a blackish terminal line : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, basal half silvery-grey-whitish, sometimes partly tinged with fulvous, 

 above apex fulvous edged beneath with white, beneath this with two slender 

 fulvous bars separated with white. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate ; dark 

 grey ; cilia grey, with darker subbasal line. 



Khasi Hills, from June to August ; twenty specimens. Tbough differing 

 from other species in having 3 and 4 of hindwings connate instead of stalked 

 or coincident, this species otherwise agrees well here. 



Cyclia capitulata, n. sp. 



£, 12-14 mm. Head pale greyish-ochreous, anterior half of crown 

 blackish. Palpi blackish, terminal joint and apex of second grey-whitish. 

 Thorax grey-whitish variably spotted with black. Abdomen pale grey, anal 

 tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly 

 gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, oblique ; grey-whitish, 

 base of scales mostly finely grey, with a few scattered grey strigulas ; costa 

 strigulated with blackish, dorsum and termen also with some minute blackish 

 strigulse ; a dark '.fuscous or blackish trapezoidal blotch, more or less mixed 

 with leaden-grey, extending on costa from before middle to rather near apex, 

 and reaching half across wing, much narrowed downwards so that lower edge is 

 about half upper, including four pairs of pale strigulse on costa : cilia whitish, 

 sprinkled towards tips with blackish. Hindwings grey ; cilia light greyish- 

 ochreous, with grey subbasal line. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in June and November ; three specimens (Pole). 



Cydia gluciata, n. sp. 



£ 9. 11-14 mm. Head white, sides fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, ter- 

 minal joint and apex of second white. Thorax ochreous-white, with blackish 

 spots on shoulders and at posterior extremity. Abdomen pale grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 slightly sinuate, somewhat oblique ; ochreous-white, more distinctly ochreous- 

 tinged posteriorly ; a broad almost basal dark fuscous fascia mixed with 

 leaden-metallic and black, outer edge nearly straight, oblique, running from | 

 of costa to | of dorsum ; four small dark fuscous spots on posterior half of 

 costa, and some scattered black costal strigulse ; a triangular dark fuscous spot 



