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some slight brownish suffusion beyond this on lower half ; a series of minute 

 dark fuscous dots on posterior part of costa and termen : cilia ochreous-white. 

 Hindwings fuscous, somewhat thinly scaled, suffused with dark fuscous poste- 

 riorly : cilia yellow- whitish, with faint traces of a fuscous line. 



Khasis, in December : one specimen. 



Acria xanthosaris, n. sp. 



g. 16-18 mm. Head whitish, crown tinged or suffused with light fuscous. 

 Palpi white, second joint with upper longitudinal half suffused with light fus- 

 cous, terminal joint with fuscous supramedian ring. Antennae dark fuscous. 

 Thorax reddish-fuscous. Abdomen golden-yellow. Forewings elongate, 

 moderate, costa moderately arched, subsinuate in middle, with rough projecting 

 scales on each side of sinuation causing it to appear as an excavation, apex 

 obtuse, termen slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; pale reddish -grey irro rated 

 with reddish-fuscous ; a cloudy dark grey spot on dorsum at \ ; cloudy dark 

 grey marks on costa at i and before and after sinuation ; stigmata minute, dark 

 fuscous, inconspicuous, plical rather obliquely beyond first discal ; an indistinct 

 angulated dark grey line from beyond costal sinuation to before tornus ; a 

 series of dark grey dots on posterior part of costa and termen : cilia ochreous- 

 whitish tinged with reddish, basal half reddish-grey bounded by a dark grey 

 shade. Hindwings fuscous, rather darker posteriorly ; cilia whitish-fuscous, on 

 dorsum paler and sometimes yellowish-tinged ; undersurface with a subcostal 

 pecten of pale yellowish hairs from base to near middle. 



Khasis, in December ; two specimens. Specially distinguished by the yellow 

 pecten of hindwings. 



Acria ceramilis, n. sp. 



$ $. 16-19 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, face whitish. Palpi white, 

 second joint sprinkled with grey except on projecting scales, terminal joint with 

 dark grey supramedian ring. Antennas grey. Abdomen light fuscous, in $ 

 tinged with yellow-ochreous. Forewings formed as in xanthosaris ; fuscous or 

 grey, usually partially tinged with reddish ; costal edge in sinuation usually 

 more or less reddish-ochreous ; stigmata minute, dark fuscous, often obsolete, 

 plical somewhat beyond first discal ; an angulated subterminal series of indis- 

 tinct dark fuscous cloudy dots, often obsolete : cilia greyish-ochreous tinged 

 with reddish, basal third dark grey. Hindwings fuscous, sometimes ochreous- 

 tinged, darker towards apex ; cilia whitish-fuscous. 



Palni Hills ^ Campbell) ; Khasis, in June ; seven specimens. I have also four 

 specimens from Maturatta, Peradeniya, Maskeliya and Haputale, Ceylon, in 

 February, and from June to September (Pole, Green, Alston), which are 

 probably the same species, but differ in being usually darker-coloured, forewings 

 sometimes dark fuscous with slight purplish tinge, hindwings dark fuscous, 

 sometimes with coppery tinge, head, palpi, and part of costa and cilia of fore- 

 wings more or less conspicuously yellowish-tinged. I do not find any reliable 

 distinction. 



Aolanthes Meyr. 



