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striguJee dark grey, in 9 posteriorly rather widely suffused with dark grey, more 

 strongly towards termen ; cilia ochreous-whitish, towards lower half of termen 

 greyish, in $ with dark grey sub-basal shade. 



Three specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February and March (Pole). 



Caccecia epicyrta, n. sp. 



$ 18-21 mm. 9 23 mm. Head and thorax reddish-fuscous, sometimes mixed 

 with ferruginous. Palpi ferruginous. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft brownish- 

 ochreous. Forewings moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa in $ moderately arched 

 anteriorly and sinuate before apex, in 9 more strongly arched and sinuate, apex 

 obtuse, prominent and in 9 considerably produced, termen sinuate, beneath apex, 

 not oblique but rather prominently bowed; 7 and 8 nearly approximated towards 

 base ; costal fold of $ reaching from base to § of costa, almost £ of wing in 

 breadth, enclosing a pnle ochreous-yellowish tuft ; ferruginous-ochreous, in 9 

 strigulated with brown ; costal fold of £ suffused with dark fuscous ; an oblique 

 triangular deep red-brown blotch from dorsum near base ; central fascia darker, 

 in $ suffused with the purplish-fuscous and make above middle with deep red- 

 brown, running from : of costa to before tornus, narroved on costa, edges 

 irregular and ill-defined ; a dark red-brown elongate costal spot, reaching from 

 middle to § ; in g a red-brown sub-apical spot, and an oblique ferruginous- 

 brown mark from beneath costal spot, nearly reaching termen above tornus ; 

 cilia ferruginous, at apex dark fuscous, towards tornus pale ochreous-yellowish. 

 Hindwings pale ochreous-yellowish, becoming deeper towards apex, dorsal 

 half grey ; cilia pale yellowish, round apex grey on outer half ; in 9 on costa 

 with a thickened patch of dense-grey scales from beyond middle to near 

 apex. 



Seven specimens, Maskeliya, Puttalam, and Newera Eliya, Ceylon, from 

 July to September (Green). Bred from larvse feeding in fruit of plum in 

 May (Green) ; but very probably the larva is a general feeder. This species is 

 very similar to the European C. podana ; it may be distinguished structurally 

 by the approximation of veins 7 and 8 of forewings towards base (in podana 

 these diverge from base), the much broader costal fold of $, the prominent 

 termen of forewings, and in 9 the thickened patch of scales in costal cilia of 

 hindwings ; and also by the grey colour of the hindwings being confined to 

 dorsal half, whereas in podana it extends towards costa anteriorly. 



Phaloniad^;. 



Tribcnica, n. g. 



Antennse in $ biciliated with very long fine cilia. Palpi long, porrected. 

 Thorax smooth ; posterior tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Forewings 

 without costal fold in $ , surface with tufts of raised scales ; 2 from very near 

 angle of cell, 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 7 to termen, 8 and 9 long-stalked. 

 Hindwings with 2, 3, 5 approximated at base, 4 absent, 6 to apex, 7 absent ; 

 lower margin of cell with basal pecten of hairs. 



Closely allied and superficially very similar to Heterocrossa, but immediately 

 distinguished by the stalking of veins 3 and 4, 8 and 9 of forewings, 



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