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Platypeplus hedrcea n. sp. 



$. 14—15 mm. Head ochreousfuscous, purplish-tinged. Palpi dark 

 fuscous. Antennae fuscous. Thorax ferruginous-brown, suffused with purplish. 

 Abdomen grey, apex whitish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, little oblique, rounded beneath ; deep 

 ferruginous, posteriorly brown-reddish on veins and suffused with blackish grey 

 between them ; an obtuse-triangular white costal patch, extending along costa 

 from before £ to f , and reaching \ across wing, on costa strigulated with black, 

 beneath which is a'slight grey or ochreous suffusion ; ocellus containing three 

 or four longitudinal blackish bars, its posterior margin leaden ; a fine blackish 

 line from costa before apex to termen below middle ; extreme apex orange • cilia 

 ferruginous, partly barred with dark grey. Hindwings somewhat distorted and 

 roughened with scales on dorsal § of posterior half ; grey thinly scaled towards 

 base, darker towards tornus ; cilia whitish grey, with darker subbasalline. 



Two specimens, Kandy, Ceylon, in August and September (Green). Easily 

 known by the white costal patch. 



Platypeplus harmonica n. sp. 



$ . 18 mm. Head and palpi blackish grey, marked with white. Antennas 

 dark grey. Thorax dark grey mixed with white. Abdomen dark fuscous, anal 

 tuft whitish. Posterior tibia? with long hair pencil from base above, basal joint 

 of posterior tarsi with fringe of dense projecting scales above, Forewings elon- 

 gate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen some- 

 what rounded, little oblique ; deep brown-red ; basal half mixed with olive- 

 green and blackish and suffusedly strigulated with white, with small scattered 

 tufts of raised white scales, limited by an olive-green line ; terminal half with 

 pairs of white costal strigulse ; a small orange discal spot at §, preceded by a 

 blackish suffusion ; a pale purplish transverse shade beyond this, and a double 

 pale ochreous subterminal stria, mixed with white broken beneath apex ; between 

 these some small grey spots, mixed with blue-whitish ; cilia brown-reddish, 

 barred with grey and white, towards tornus ochreous-yellow, and with a small 

 orange spot at apex. Hindwings with subdorsal groove ; dark fuscous, lighter 

 towards base ; cilia whitish with grey basal line. 



One specimen, Peradeniya, in August ^Green). 



Platypeplus erotias n. sp. 



$ $. 13 — 16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ferruginous-brown, mixed 

 with blackish. Antennae brown. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings rather short- 

 triatigular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, little obli- 

 que, rounded beneath ; brown, more or less suffused with light rosy-crimson 

 especially on margins, strigulated with dark fuscous, and strewn with spots of 

 raised leaden scales, some of which are sometimes tipped with white ; a small 

 irregular whitish-ochieous spot in disc at f ; cilia dark grey, basal half barred 

 with rosy-crimson. Hindwings dark fuscous, lighter towards base; cilia grey, with 

 darker subbasal line; in <J beneath with shallow subdorsal groove, and scales some- 

 what raised towards tornus, dorsal cilia thickened and curled towards tornuu. 



