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THYRIDID.E. 



764a. Striglina ignepicta. n. sp. (PI. D, f. 6). 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen olive-brown; palpi and antennae marked 

 with white ; pectus white ; legs banded with white ; abdomen with subdorsal 

 fiery red spots on last three segments and a slight white dorsal line on terminal 

 segment, the ventral surface banded with white. Forewing dark olive-brown 

 with darker striae ; a maculate patch of fiery red below costa beyond middle 

 with some white points above it on costa ; an ochreous spot in end of cell with 

 a round hyaline spot below it ; cilia white at tips. Hindwing dark olive- 

 brown with slight fiery red suffusion between vein 5 and tornus towards which 

 it develops into more distinct spots ; cilia white at tips. Underside strongly 

 striated with white ; forewing with the yellow in end of cell extending round 

 the hyaline spot and with some silvery suffusion before and beyond it. 



Habitat— Bombay ; Castle Rock (Davidson). Exp. 14 mill. Type— in B. M. 



811. Dysodia ignita, insert (syn.) Dysodia bipuncta and D. levis, Warr., Nov. 

 Zool., VII., p. 100. 



Limacodid^:. 



822c. Macroplectra ceylonica. n. sp. 



g. Yellow-brown irrorated with fuscous. Forewing with ill-defined ante- 

 medial black line from cell to inner margin ; a very ill-defined postmedial line 

 from vein 8 to 3. Hindwing black-brown, the cilia yellow-brown. 



Habitat.— €eylon, Matale (J. Pole). Exp. 16 mill. Type— in B. M. 



822c?. Macroplectra inconspicua, n. sp. 



£. Antennae greatly thickened and flattened. 



Ochreous ; head, thorax and forewing to the obscure, very oblique postmedial 

 line, suffused with rufous. 



Habitat. — Bombay, Castle Rock (Davidson). Exp. 12 mill. Type— in B. M. 



852a. CONTHEYLA ROTUNDA, n. sp. 



Grey-brown. Forewing with slight dark irroration ; a series of black points 

 from costa beyond middle, excurved to vein 6, then becoming subterminal; hind- 

 wing slightly darker ; cilia of both wings yellowish at base. 



Habitat.—!*. Kanara, Karwar (T. R. Bell). Exp. $ 16, $ 20 mill. Type- 

 in B. M. 



Cocoon covered with white secretion leaving points and patches of red-brown. 



This species resembles the genus Spatulijimbria except in length of palpi. 



874a. Idonauton nigribasis, n. sp. (PI. D, f. 31). 



$. Antennas much thickened and rather flattened with a large tuft of scales 

 between their bases ; cilia of both wings very long and spatulate at extremities. 



Head and thorax black-brown, the vertex of former rufous ; abdomen 

 rufous tinged with fuscous. Forewing rufous ; the basal area black-brown 

 with nearly straight outer edge ; cilia dark-brown and grey at tips. Hindwing 

 fuscous brown ; cilia dark brown and grey at tips. 



Habitat.—N. Kanara, Karwar (T. R. Bell). Exp. 16 mill. Type— in B. M. 



