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roughened with scales near base, broadly prominent and with a patch of rough 

 projecting scales beyond middle, apex rounded-obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 

 vertical ; deep emerald-green ; a round spot in middle of disc, a transverse 

 spot from dorsum beyond middle nearly reaching it and sometimes a subcostal 

 dot beyond middle mixed with ochreous and blackish raised scales, and edged 

 with whitish ; a narrow dark grey terminal fascia continued round apex, an- 

 teriorly marked with blackish and edged with white, terminating just above 

 tornus ; a blackish white-edged tornal dot ; cilia grey, base spotted with pale 

 ochreous. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous, tips whitish. 



Seven specimens, Kandy and Haragam, Ceylon, in March, August, and Sep- 

 tember (Green). Walker's type is from New Guinea ; his description is unre- 

 cognisable. 



Oxygrapha Hb. 



I think it best to follow Lord Walsingham in adopting this name for the 

 genus standing as Acalla in my Handbook. 



Oxygrapha sagmatias n. sp. 



ft. 17-20 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous or 

 whitish-fuscous. Forewings moderately elongate, costa strongly and evenly 

 arched throughout, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, little oblique, rounded 

 beneath ; fuscous, obscurely strigulated with darker, more or less mixed or 

 sprinkled with ferruginous-brown, some very small scattered scale-tufts ; a curved 

 ochreous-yellow ferruginous-mixed fascia-like blotch running from dorsum near 

 base obliquely outwards to middle of disc, thence bent towards tornus and 

 terminating at §, but this blotch is sometimes (yar. 2) wholly obsolete ; a very 

 small white spot before apex ; cilia dark fuscous, base and a median line paler. 

 Hindwings pale fuscous or whitish-fuscous, suffused with darker posteriorly ; 

 cilia whitish-f usc6*us, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Five specimens, Maskeliya and Horton Plains, Ceylon, in February and 

 March (Pole, Green). 



Epagoge siderantha n. sp. 



ft 9. 12-14 mm. Head and palpi pale brownish-ochreous or brownish, 

 palpi in ft 3, in $ almost 4. Thorax brown, with large posterior crest tipped 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-fuscous, suffused with grey posteriorly, 

 especially in $ , anal tuft of ft whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, ccsta 

 moderately and evenly arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate beneath apex, little 

 oblique, rounded beneath ; ferruginous-brown : numerous scattered small 

 shining bluish-leaden-metallic spots, and a transverse series immediately before 

 termen ; in ft a triangular pale yellow costal spot before middle, and a smaller 

 one beyond middle ; in $ a triangular costal spot of orange suffusion beyond 

 middle, and a large semicircular deep orange dorsal blotch extending from £ 

 almost to tornus, marked on dorsum with a pale yellow irregular outwardly 

 oblique sometimes interrupted mark before middle, and a small pale yellow 

 triangular spot beyond middle ; cilia pale ochreous-yellow, at tornus dark grey. 

 Hindwings yellow-whitish, in ft with apex and some posterior and terminal 



