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blackish sprinkled with white, posterior tibiae with large median tuft of 

 long curved purplish-fuscous and ochreous-yellow scales tipped with black. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly 

 rounded, oblique ; 7 to apex, 9 out of 7 ; dark fuscous ; two or three short 

 whitish streaks from base ; transverse lines of white irroration at I and ^, 

 partly marked with orange ; three orange longitudinal streaks from about 

 middle to f , third furcate posteriorly, separated by streaks of purplish -leaden 

 suffusion ; veins 3, 4, and 7 — 10 marked more or less completely with white 

 streaks, 5 and 6 with orange streaks ; a short white streak along costa near 

 apex : cilia fuscous-whitish, basal third pale yellowish limited by a black line 

 with two postmedian dark fuscous lines. Hindwings with 3 absent, 6 to 

 termen ; dark fuscous , a subdorsal groove enclosing a pencil of whitish - 

 ochreous hairs ; cilia rather dark fuscous, base pale yellowish. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, from August to October ; four specimens (Alston). Very 

 like mendicetta, but differing by the smaller size, white streaks from base 

 (in mendicella orange), fewer and longer orange postmedian streaks, more 

 numerous white and fewer orange lines on veins posteriorly, and wholly dark 

 fuscous hindwings. 



Timyra selmatias, n. sp. 



9. 18 — 19 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-fuscous. Palpi whitish tinged 

 with fuscous 4 anterior, edge dark fuscous. Antennas white ringed with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen ochreous- whitish. Legs fuscous ringed with yellowish and 

 whitish, posterior tibiae with very long rough whitish hairs, and very large 

 median tuft of curved yellowish aud whitish hairs tipped with black and 

 silvery-metallic, and smaller apical yellowish tuft tipped with grey and violet- 

 whitish, basal joint of tarsi above with rough yellowish scales tipped with grey 

 and violet-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique ; 7 to just below apex ; purplish- 

 fuscous, sprinkled with blackish ; median third obscurely streaked with whitish 

 on veins ; a narrow irregular orange transverse fascia from § of costa to f of 

 dorsum ; a triangular spot of whitish suffusion on costa about |, and an 

 irregular suffused whitish streak immediately before termen ; apical and 

 terminal edge suffused with dark fuscous : cilia grey-whitish, basal third pale 

 yellowish limited by a fuscous line. Hindwings with 6 to termen ; grey ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, more yellowish towards base. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in August and October ; two specimens (Alston). 

 Timyra sphaeristis, n. sp. 



£ 9. 16 — 17 mm. Head and thorax shining light ochreous-yellowish, centre 

 of crown fuscous. Palpi yellowish, alike in both sexes. Antennas pale yellowish. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous, segments dorsally suffused with fuscous. Legs 

 whitish-ochreous, anterior and middle tibiae yellowish with blackish subapical 

 spots, posterior tibiae with expansible tufts of yellowish scales at middle and 

 apex spotted with blackish at base. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 7 to termen ; 



