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purplish-leaden. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; cilia light grey, with darker 

 subbasal line. 

 One specimen, Kandy, Ceylon, in July (Green). 

 Platypeplus hemiopta n. sp. 



$. 28 mvu. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax light-brown. Abdomen 

 fuscous, anal tuft whitish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated costa, 

 moderately arched, apex rounded, termen slightly rounded, little oblique ; 

 ferruginous-brown, suffusedly strigulated with purplish-leaden, costal half pale 

 yellow-ochreous strigulated with prismatic whitish-ochreous, costa strigulated 

 with dark fuscous, and on anterior half suffused with ferruginous-brown ; some 

 scattered black strigulaa on dorsal half, and an irregular black transverse mark 

 above tornus ; a dark fuscous suffusion towards termen beneath apex, concave 

 beneath ; cilia brown mixed with leaden, with a pale ochreous apical patch. 

 Hindwings rather dark fuscous, with a small flap of white scales beneath costal 

 area before middle ; cilia light grey, with darker subbasal line. 

 One specimen, Peradeniya, Ceylon, in September (Green). 

 Platypeplus rhynchias n, sp. 



$ $. 24-29 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax brown, face dark fuscous. 

 Palpi brown mixed with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-fuscous mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 

 rounded, termen nearly straight, little oblique rounded beneath ; ferruginous- 

 brown, strigulated and more or less suffused with purplish-fuscous, except 

 towards base ; costa strigulated with dark fuscous; a small irregular triangular 

 blackish spot above tornus ; an irregular pale ochreous terminal fascia strigu- 

 lated with darker, indented by a downwards-oblique acute projection of 

 ground colour nearly or quite touching termen below middle, which is edged 

 by two blackish strigae, upper curved along margin of terminal fascia to apex, 

 lower running towards costa at i, terminal fascia suffused upwards beneath 

 this cilia ; reddish -fuscous irrorated with whitish-ochreous, with two dark 

 fuscous lines. 



Hindwings rather dark-grey ; cilia pale giey, with darker subbasal line. 

 Four specimens, Kandy and Yatiyantota, Ceylon, in March and November 

 (Green). 

 Notocelia helota n. sp. 



ft. 15 mm., 9 20-26 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, sometimes 

 mixed with brownish. Antenna? dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly 

 straight, rather oblique, rounded beneath ; bent up and shortly oppressed 

 to 2 near origin of htter ; dark bronzy-fuscous, obscurely strigulated with 

 leaden-grey ; and ochreous-whitish discal dot at | ; cilia bronzy-fuscous, with 

 darker subbasal shade. Hindwings fuscous ; cilia light fuscous, with darker 

 subbasal shade. 



Four specimens, Maskeliya and Badulla, Ceylon, in July and November 

 (Green, Pole). 



