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long stalk ; pale brownish-ochreous, irregularly sprinkled with blackish- 

 fuscous, in disc and towards dorsum and termen more or less suffused with 

 whitish in $ ; baiial area more or less suffused with dark fuscous ; a fuscous 

 band irregularly suffused with blackish running from upper portion of basal 

 patch to near dorsum beyond middle, its lower edge there rather obtusely 

 angulated and running almost straight to apex ; a dark fuscous costal spot 

 beyond middle and a smaller one at §; in 9 these markings are very obscure 

 and ill-defined : cilia pale whitish-ochreous mixed with fuscous, ol scurely 

 barred with darker fuscous. Hindwings rather light fuscous; cilia light 

 fuscous, base whitish -ochreous. 



Madulsima, Haputalte, and Peradeniya, Ceylon, from June to August, and 

 in February (Vaughan, Pole, Alston, Green) ; seven specimens. Differs from 

 M. Thwaitesii (to which it is very closely allied) by different form of dark 

 band, which in Thwaitesii forms two obtuse angles towards dorsum ; and by 

 neuration of forewings, since in Thwaitesii the secondary cell is large, 9 and 10 

 approximately connate from its angle or in 9 short-stalked ; this is due to 

 the position of cross-vein, which in Thwaitesii is in a line with posterior margin 

 of cell, whilst in anasactis it is very much retracted towards base. 



Melasina ccthalea, n. sp. 



A. 30-34 mm., 9 46 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-yellow, in 9 some- 

 what mixed with dark fuscous, palpi rather short, densely scaled, in 9 hairy. 

 Antennae in $ ochreous mottled with blackish, pectinations 6, in 9 wholly 

 clothed with loose dark brown and black scales. Thorax and abdomen dark 

 brown. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 8 approximated, 9 and 10 short stalked ; 

 in $ d irk fuscous finely irrorated with whitish, in 9 paler, strewn with 

 blackish-fuscous strigulae ; a dark fuscous transverse fascia-like blotch from 

 middle of dorsum, reaching about half across wing ; a similar blotch from 

 middle of costa directed towards tornus, reaching more than half across wing ; 

 costa posteriorly more or less spotted alternately with pale ochreous-yellowish 

 and dark fuscous ; two or three dark fuscous subterminal spots sometimes 

 united into an incomplete fascia : cilia dark fuscous, base mixed with whitish- 

 fuscous. Hind wings and cilia blackish-fuscous, rfilia round apex and upper 

 half of termen pale ochreous-yellowish except at base. 



Khasi Hills ; three specimens. 



Melasina stratifica, n. sp. 



£. 32-36 mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous, sometimes mixed with dark 

 fuscous on crown. Palpi moderate, rough-scaled, dark fuscous, apex whitish- 

 ochreous. Antennas whitish-ochreous, pectinations 7. Thorax pale brownish- 

 ochreous mixed with brown and dark brown, with posterior crest tipped with 

 blackish-fuscous. Abdomen light brownish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, 

 posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 

 rounded ; 8 approximated, 9 and 10 stalked ; pale whitish-ochreous, some- 

 what sprinkled with fuscous and blackish ; markings fuscous, suffusedly mixed 



