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Hindwings with a slight tooth at vein 7 oul}-. In the forewings the snbmediau 

 and internal veins are both somevchat thickened and distorted at base, and the 

 nnderside is clothed with rongh scales along the inner margin near base. 



Mesoglypta gen. nov. 



Forewings : with costa cnrved at base and before apex, straight between : ajiex 

 blnnt ; hindmargin outwardly oblique to vein 5, there obtusely dentate and obliqne 

 inwards ; anal angle well marked ; inner margin somewhat convex. 



HindwinffS : with apex blnntly rectangular ; hindmargin curved : inner margin 

 shortened ; anal angle truncate to vein 16 ; costa shouldered near base. 



Antennae of c? quite slender, filiform : palpi porrect, roughly scaled, terminal 

 joint acute ; tongtie and frenulum present ; hind tibiae with four spurs, the inner 

 twice as long as the outer. 



Neurntion : forewings, cell barely one-third of wing ; discocellnlar vertical ; 

 submedian strongly sinuous; first median at four-fifths of cell, curved downwards ; 

 second and third I'rom lower angle ; lower radial from just below upper angle, 

 approximated at first to stalk of 6 and 7, then curved downwards ; 8 and 9 stalked 

 from close before upper angle, 10 from just before them, 11 from oue-half ; a strong 

 puckered fold along lower part of cell jiroduced to hindmargin above vein 4. Hind- 

 wings with costal curved away from subcostal from base ; the two subcostal nervules 

 on a long stalk ; radial from below the upper angle : second and third medians, 

 as in forewings, from lower angle of cell ; first median from quite near base. 

 Type : Mesoyly pta fleximanjo sp. nov. 



27. Mesoglypta fleximargo sp. nov. 



Forewin(/s: j-ellowish, covered with tine, slightly waved, rust-coloured striae; 

 the costa marked with darker striae ; traces of an oblique brown line from inner 

 margin close to base to middle of wing parallel to costa ; an outwardly oblique 

 fuscous line from four-fifths of costa, with fuscons striae and blotches towards apex; 

 a fuscous patch on hindmargin below vein 5, along which the fringe is also fuscous ; 

 yellow above and below. 



Ilinihvhtgs : yellow, with the rust-coloured striae, without any markings. 



Underside paler, with sparse, more strongly marked, brown striae. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen all yellowish ; palpi somewhat darker. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



One 6 from Lombok, 2000 feet, May and June 1896 (Fruhstorfer). 



28. Paradirades maculata sp. nov. 



Foreuings : pale grey, suffused with pale fawn-colour ; a black spot in middle 

 of base ; first lino pale grey, indistinct, at two-fifths, slightly curved outwards and 

 marked by three black spots, on costa, discocellnlar, and inner margin ; second line 

 at fonr-fifths, more strongly curved, marked by black spots on costa and inner 

 margin only; the space included i)ale fawn ; a dark spot on costa before ajjcx, and 

 one before hindmargin at middle; marginal line slender, black ; fringe pale, with 

 dark spots beyond veins, that at vein 4 large. 



Hindwings : with fawn-coloured central fascia, the inner eilg(? only marked by 

 two black spots on and near inner margin : the outer simply a dark waved line ; a 

 black spot before middle of hindmargin. 



