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from tornus, not reaching half across wing ; short oblique whitish strigulse 

 from costa before and beyond middle, and five whitish cloudy dots or marks 

 on costa between these and metallic line ; some suffused whitish irroration in 

 disc beneath these ; a nearly straight transverse silvery-metallic line at i, apical 

 are a brownish-ochreous, edged beneath by a whitish wedge shaped mark reach- 

 ing apex and above by a shorter similar mark, between these anteriorly is a 

 transverse spot of blackish suffusion : cilia grey, round apex whitish with a fine 

 black subbasal line, edged anteriorly with silvery-metallic at apex, and a posterior 

 blackish apical hook. Hindwings and cilia grey. 

 Maskeliya, Ceylon, in July (Pole) ; one specimen. 

 Epicephala frenata , n. sp. 



<£$. 9-10 mm. Head white. Palpi dark fuscous, white towards base and 

 apex. Antenna? grey. Thorax fuscous with white central stripe. Abdomen 

 grey, beneath ochreous-whitish with lateral series of oblique grey lines, apex 

 ochreous-wbitish. Legs whitish spotted with dark grey. Forewings very 

 narrowly elongate, short-pointed, apex round-pointed ; rather dark fuscous : a 

 white streak along dorsum from base to middle of termen, attenuated posterior- 

 ly, upper edge emitting a short oblique streak before middle of wing, and a pair 

 of longer oblique streaks from tornus reaching half across wing, before which 

 the streak itself is cut by a fine inwards-oblique line of ground colour ; three 

 usually very short oblique white streaks from costa before and beyond middle 

 and at £ , sometimes reduced to dots, second sometimes longer ; a bent silvery- 

 metallic transverse line at f , area preceding this more or less irrorated with 

 whitish and blackish ; apical area ochreous-f uscous with a spot of dark fuscous 

 suffusion anteriorly, edged beneath by a wedge-shaped white mark, and above 

 by a shorter similar mark not reaching apex : cilia grey, round apex white with 

 a fine black subbasal line, at apex with a dark fuscous bar. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Puttalam and Ambulangoda, Ceylon, in November, February, and March 



(Pole, Fletcher) ; nine specimens. Near albhtriatella, Turn., from Queensland 



hitherto placed in Acrocercops on account of the smoother head, but by the 



palpi properly an Epicephala), but differs by presence of the median branch of 



dorsal streak, and less developed costa] streaks. 



Epicephala flagellata, n. sp. 



9- 9 mm. Head white. Palpi somewhat curved, white, second joint suffused 

 with grey except towards base. Antennae grey. Thorax white, shoulders 

 brownish. Abdomen grey, beneath whitish with lateral series of oblique 

 fuscous stripes, anteriorly darker. Legs white ringed with blackish-grey, 

 anterior pair suffused with dark grey. Forewings very narrowly elongate, short- 

 pointed, obtuse , light ochreous-brown ; a rather narrow white streak along 

 dorsum from base to tornus ; moderate oblique white streaks from costa before 

 •and beyond middle, reaching nearly half across wing ; two strongly curved 

 parallel transverse fine white lines about i, preceded on lower half by an 

 oblique white streak ; beyond these are white costal and terminal marks not 



