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of this band is a small leaden-metallic spot : cilia shining bronze. Hindwings 

 with 3 and 4 approximated, 6 and 7 approximated, 7 to apex ; dark fuscous ; 

 rather broad pale orange costal and submedian streaks of modified scales, 

 confluent towards base, latter grooved towards base and enclosing an expansible 

 pencil of long pale orange hairs ; cilia grey. 



Kandy, Ceylon, in October ; one specimen (Green). 

 Tingentera tJwracias, n. sp. 



£ 18 — 19 mm. Head and thorax shining bronze, face yellowish. Palpi 

 bluish-leaden-metallic, second joint broadly dilated with long rough yellowish 

 scales beneath and short ones above, and internally excavated so as to be 

 spoonshaped, terminal joint concealed. Antennae dark grey, with whitish 

 median band, basal joint with slight anterior scale-projection. Abdomen light 

 ochreous-yellowish. Legs light yellowish, anterior femora and tibiae dark 

 metallic grey, middle tibiae with dark grey apical spot, posterior tibiae and three 

 basal joints of tarsi rough-scaled above. Forewings elongate, posteriorly 

 dilated, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 lower margin of cell approximated to dorsum, 2 remote, 3 and 4 connate from 

 angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to apex, 9 connate with 7 ; purplish-fuscous, posterior 

 half suffused with pale metallic golden-bronze ; an orange band occupying 

 basal third of wing except a very small dark metallic bluish-leaden basal patch, 

 posterior edge strongly concave, produced along costa as a slender streak almost 

 to apex ; a light blue-leaden-metallic spot in middle of this band, and its 

 posterior edge margined in disc with a blue-leaden-metallic streak ; a small 

 transverse-oval orange spot in disc at -§, sometimes connected with dorsum by a 

 patch of light yellowish suffusion almost confluent dorsally with preceding 

 band : cilia whitish-bronzy-ochreous, Hindwings with 3 and 4 approximated, 

 6 and 7 approximated, 7 to apex ; whitish -ochreous, with a rather broad pale 

 orange costal streak of modified scales : a submedian groove containing an 

 expansible pencil of very long pale orange hairs ; cilia whitish-ochreous, slightly 

 purplish-tinged on lower half of termen. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February and March ; two specimens (de Mowbray). 

 Tingentera philodoxa, n. sp. 



£ 20 mm. Head violet-bronzy, sides orange, upper part of face bluish- 

 silvery, lower light orange. Palpi orange, with a dark leaden-metallic streak 

 on upper half, second joint much dilated with dense long orange scales beneath 

 and short ones above, terminal joint concealed. Antennae dark fuscous, basal 

 joint simple. Thorax dark fuscous, with an orange stripe on each side of back. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous, apex yellowish. Legs orange -yellowish, anterior femora 

 and tibiae dark fuscous streaked with leaden-metallic, middle tibiae with base 

 and apex dark leaden-fuscous, tarsi whitish, posterior tibiae rough-scaled, 

 tarsi whitish banded with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, very narrow, 

 costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely 

 rounded ; lower margin of cell approximated to dorsum, 2 from before 

 middle, 3 and 4 connate from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen orange 



