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underside with the inner and terminal areas tinged with greyish, a discoidal 

 point and punctiform postmedial line incurved below vein 3. 



Habitat.— Nicobars ; Borneo ; Celebes. Exp. 34 mill. 



4879c. Phryganodes flocculentalis, Hmpsn., P. Z. S., 1889, p. 680, pi. 

 50, f. 4. 



Hind tibiae of male with very thick fringe of black hair from medial spurs 

 to extremity ; costa of forewing with immense tuft of flocculent hair covered 

 by larare flattened scales on basal half below and somewhat excised at middle. 



Grey suffused with ochreous brown and fuscous ; fore tarsi white; abdomen 

 with black rings on two penultimate segments. Forewing with the costa some- 

 what more ochreous ; a black striga across base of cell ; a curved blackish 

 antemedial line, a small black discoidal spot; a somewhat diffused blackish 

 postmedial line, excurved and minutely waved to vein 2, then retracted to origin 

 of vein 2, oblique to submedian fold and minutely waved to inner margin ; a 

 terminal series of small fuscous lunules ; cilia fuscous with a whitish line at 

 base. Hindwing with blackish discoidal spot ; postmedial line blackish, 

 oblique and minutely waved to vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell and 

 oblique to above tornus ; a fuscous terminal line : cilia fuscous with whitish 

 line at base ; the underside whiter. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole); Pulo Laut. Exp. 26-34 mill. 



4880a. Phryganodes chrysalis, n. sp. (Plate E., f. 45.) 

 ft . Thorax with tufts of long yellowish hair from below base of forewing 

 and tufts of long fuscous hair from below base of hindwing. 



Orange yellow; shoulders with black spots ; fore tibise with fuscous spots ; 

 abdomen with dorsal fuscous spot on penultimate segment. Forewing with 

 subbasal black spots below costa and on inner margin, a slightly curved 

 antemedial band ; small spot in middle of cell and large discoidal spot; a post- 

 medial band excurved between veins 6 and 2, then bent inwards to below end of 

 cell and sinuous to inner margin ; a terminal band broad at costa and narrowing 

 to tornus. Hindwing with small discoidal spot ; a postmedial band excurved 

 between veins 6 and 2, then bent inwards to below end of cell and oblique to 

 inner margin ; a terminal band, somewhat widening towards apex and obsolete 

 towards tornus. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Ohiya (F. H. Gossage). Exp. 30 mill. Type in B. M. 



4887. Phryganodes crithonalis insert (syn.) Omiodes ovenalis, Swinh., A. 

 M. N. H. (7), xvii, 289 (1906). 



4888. a. Phryganodes eradicalis, n.sp. 



Antennodes radicalis, Swinh., A. M.N. H. (7), xvii, p. 291 (1906) part nee. Wlk. 



Antennas of male with a tuft of hair on upperside of shaft about three-4ths 

 from base ; hind tibise short and curved, the tibia and tarsus fringed with long 

 hair above ; inner margin of hindwing fringed with long hair. 



Fuscous brown ; palpi in front, pectus and legs pale rufons ; abdomen with 

 the ventral surface whitish. Forewing with faint dark spot in middle of cell 

 and discoidal lunule ; traces of a diffused postmedial line, straight from costa 



