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more or less marked leaden metallic striga; ; central fascia broad throughout, 

 little oblique deep brownish-ochreous or ferruginous-ochreous mixed with 

 leaden-metallic and blackish, more strongly marked with blackish on upper 

 half, appearing to foim a blackish costal blotch attached anteriorly to a 

 downwards-curved longitudinal mark in disc : an ochreous streak sprinkled with 

 blackish extending from posterior margin of central fascia near costa to middle 

 of termen, space above and below this marked with irregular leaden-metallic 

 strigae : costa posteriorly with three small blackish spots whence arise short 

 brownish strigulse meeting beneath apex : cDia brownish-ochreous mixed with 

 leaden-grey and blackish with a subbasal blackish line, at tornus with a whitish- 

 ochreous patch. Hindwings rather daik fuscous, in ^ with dorsum clothed 

 with expansible tuft of whitish ochreous hairs ; cilia fuscous, with dark fuscous 

 subbasal line, in ^ becoming whitish-ochreous towards dorsum. 



Khasis, from July to September ; twelve specimens. 



Pnhjchrosis anceps, n. sp. 



^9- 12-14 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed Avitb fuscous. 

 Palpi pale ochreous, indistinctly spotted with fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 tennen faintly sinuate, hardly oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, mixed with 

 leaden grey, which tends to form irregular transverse striae ; small blackish 

 spots along costa ; basal patch irregularly mixed with brownish and black, 

 outer edge irregular ; central fascia brownish, hardly oblique, very undefined 

 towards costa broad and suffusedly mixed with blackish, in middle of disc 

 with a longitudinal down-curved black mark, posterior edge excavated above 

 and below this ; an erect elongate-triangular brownish prastornal spot edged by 

 undefined blackish striae continued upwards as a single stria £ across wing ; a 

 brownish streak mixed with black from near extremity of this to termen below 

 middle ; a small brownish apical spot : cUia fuscous, with blackish subbasal line, 

 beneath tornus somewhat mixed with whitish-ochreous. Hindwings rather 

 dark fuscous, darker posteriorly ; cilia fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal 

 line. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in April (Pole) : two specimens. 



Polychrosis gahina, n. sp. 



$ 9. 14-15 mm. Head brown. Palpi brown, paler and ferruginous-tinged 

 towards apex of second joint above. Thorax brown, more or less marked with 

 blackish and sometimes spotted with white, crest suffused with ferruginous. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous, Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, vertical, rounded beneath ; bronzy- 

 brownish, irregularly marked with black ; costa black, with pairs of whitish 

 strioulEC ; anterior half of wing crossed by several irregular leaden-metallic 

 stria), sometimes partially edged with whitish , two oblique leaden-metallic 

 streaks from costa beyond middle more or less united with two very ii-regular 

 thick partially white-edged leaden-metallic streaks from about tornus, forming 

 nns of ocellus ; cilia metallic leaden-grey, with dark fuscous basal line. 



