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PYRAUSTINiE. 



4765a. Sufetula nitidalis, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 16.) 

 $ . Head yellowish with black streak on vertex ; palpi yellowish white in 

 front, black behind ; maxillary palpi black with yellowish ring at middle and 

 yellowish tips ; antennae blackish ; thorax black-brown, the tibiae and tarsi 

 whitish ; abdomen fuscous, the base greyish, the 2nd segment with whitish 

 segmental line. Fore wing fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss ; a small black 

 discoidal spot ; some white points on apical half of costa ; a slight whitish, 

 minutely waved subterminal line, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly 

 oblique. Hindwing fuscous brown with a slight cupreous gloss, the basal half 

 rather greyer with dark irroration ; a black discoidal point ; a white postmedial 

 line with some black suffusion on its inner edge, slightly excurved from costa 

 to submedian fold, then waved, incurved and retracted below vein 1 ; a slight 

 dark terminal line ; cilia grey at base followed by a black line, the tips whitish ; 

 the underside greyer with dark irroration, a black discoidal lunule. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Uva (de Mowbray). Exp. 20 mill. Type in B. M. 



4766. Massepha absolutalis, insert Massepha marginalis, Swinh., A.M.N.H. 

 (7), xvii, p. 287 (1906), a variety with the terminal area of forewing and apex 

 of hindwing blackish. 



4773a. Pycnarmon pulchralis, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), viii, p. 135 (1901) 



9 . Head and thorax white ; tegulae and patagia with fuscous brown fasciae, 

 the latter orange yellow at tips ; fore tibiae with black band ; abdomen orange, 

 with white segmental lines, the anal tuft black except at tips. Forewing pale 

 orange-yellow ;asubbasal black striga from costa ; two straight antemedial lines, 

 the outer expanding into a spot in cell ; a medial line from vein 2 to inner 

 margin ; an oblique elliptical discoidal spot ; postmedial line excurved from 

 costa to vein 2, then retracted to the discoidal spot ; a curved subterminal line ; 

 a terminal line ; cilia whitish with a fuscous line through them. Hindwing pale 

 orange-yellow ; an oblique black line from costa before middle to above tornus : 

 postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of 

 cell ; a curved subterminal line from costa to submedian fold : a terminal line; 

 cilia white with a black line through them. 



Habitat. — Burma, Rangoon. Exj). 20 mill. 



4784a. Rehimena stictalis, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 25.) 



£. Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with brown ; fore tibiae 

 fuscous above ; abdomen ochreous with diffused fuscous dorsal bands on 

 medial segments. Forewing ochreous, thinly scaled ; an oblique fuscous 

 subbasal line ; a diffused fuscous antemedial erect line ; a fuscous discoidal 

 spot ; a postmedial series of fuscous spots, the spot below costa displaced 

 inwards, and those between veins 5'3 displaced outwards near termen which is 

 tinged with fuscous. Hindwing ochreous, thinly scaled ; a postmedial fus- 

 cous rather maculate band bent outwards to near termen between veins 5'3- 

 the termen with a fuscous line towards apex and tinged with fuscous 

 towards tornus. 



