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pale fuscous or greyish-ochreous. Hindwings thinly scaled, grey ; cilia light 

 greyish-och reous. 



Madulsima and Peradeniya, Ceylon, from July to September ; six specimens 

 (Vaughan, Green). 



Struthisca zygitis, n. sp. 



ft' 13-14 mm., 9 19-22 mm. Head and thorax whitish irro rated with fus- 

 cous, lower half of face fuscous. Palpi short, slender, fuscous, apex of joints 

 whitish. Antenna? whitish sprinkled with fuscous, pectinations '.'£. Abdomen 

 light greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately 

 arched, more strongly in 9, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly 

 oblique ; 9 absent ; whitish, sometimes partially tinged with fuscous, strewn 

 throughout with fuscous or dark fuscous strigula? ; an irregular transverse 

 median fascia, and a spot beneath costa at f , more or less indicated with fus- 

 cous suffusion, but usually "very ill-defined : cilia whitish, sprinkled with pale 

 fuscous. Hindwings and cilia pale fuscous or whitish-fuscous. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, from September to June ; ten specimens (Pole). 



Struthisca charadrias, n. sp. 



ft 18-23 mm., 9 28-31 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous, sprinkled 

 with whitish. Palpi very small, slender, fuscous. Antennas whitish, pectina- 

 tions in ft 5. lined with fuscous. Abdomen pale whitish-fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, rather dilated posteriorly, costa posteriorly mode- 

 rately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; all veins 

 present, separate ; whitish finely irrorated with fuscous, sometimes forming 

 indistinct strigula? ; the absence of irroration forms a more or less distinct 

 suffused white median streak from near base to f , costal area above this more 

 or less suffused with fuscous : cilia whitish-fuscous. Hindwings and cilia 

 fuscous- whitish. 



Hambantota, Ceylon, from June to August ; ten specimens (Pole). 



Sapheneulis, n. g. 



Head loosely rough-scaled ; ocelli present ; tongue absent. Antenna? ^, in 

 ft biciliated with fascicles. Labial palpi moderate, porrected or ascending, 

 loosely scaled, obtuse. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibia? clothed with 

 long hairs. Forewings with lb furcate, 2 from towards angle, 7 to apex or 

 termen, 8 stalked with 7 or absent, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 1, 

 elongate-ovate, cilia | — 1 ; 2—7 tolerably parallel. 



Type «S. camerata. Allied to Melasina, from which it differs essentially by 

 the antenna? not being pectinated in ft. 



Sapheneuth camerata, n. sp. 



ft. 12-15 mm., 9 21-23 mm. Head, palpi, antennas, thorax, and abdomen 

 pale whitish-ochreous ; basal half of palpi mixed with blackish ; shoulders 

 with a blackish-fuscous spot. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 8 absent ; pale whitish- 

 ochreous ; markings rather dark fuscous edged with black ; an irregular fascia 

 near base, not black-edged anteriorly ; an irregular fascia before middle, ante- 



