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darker-edged, suffused with shining purplish-leaden ; an elongate costal blotch 

 at base, extended in disc to connect with an elongate loop-shaped discal blotch 

 reaching to 2 ; a streak along dorsum from near base to beyond middle ; a 

 terminal patch occupying apical third, its anterior edge convex : cilia bronzy- 

 fuscous. Hindwings with 2, 4,5 approximated, 6 and 7 connate; a slight 

 discal groove and ridge of scales towards base ; dark fuscous ; an irregular 

 ochreous-yellow patch in disc towards base ; cilia fuscous. 

 One specimen, Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole). 



Timyra. Walk. 



Antennae over l,in ft simple, basal joint elongate, in ft sometimes densely 

 tufted. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint in ft sometimes clothed with 

 long loose rough hairs, or with fine expansible hairs inwardly, in 9 with ap- 

 pressed scales, rough beneath, terminal joint in ft sometimes very short, 

 thickened with scales, rough anteriorly, in $ nearly or quite as long as second, 

 slender, acute, loosely scaled. Anterior tibiae with brush of scales beneath, 

 posterior tibiae with large dense median tuft of long hair scales above in both 

 sexes, posterior tarsi thickened with rough scales or with fringe of long hairs 

 above. Forewings with 2 remote from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen or 

 apex. Hindwings over 1, trapezoidal, apex obtuse, termen not sinuate, cilia 

 f, in ft usually with deep groove beneath cell, containing long hair-pencil ; in 

 ft 3 absent, 2 and 4 approximated or stalked, in 9 2 remote, 3 and 4 separate 

 or stalked ; 5 absent, 6 and 7. stalked. 



Obviously allied to Crochantes, which is, however, immediately distinguished 

 by the absence of veins 2 and 9 of forewings ; the large scale tuft of posterior 

 tibiae in both sexes is a quite peculiar character. 



Decuaria, Walk., is a synonym. 



Timyra macMas, n. sp. 



ft 9. 20-22 mm. Head bronzy-fuscous, sides ochreous-whitish, in ft with 

 scales of crown directed forwards above antennae. Palpi ochreous-whitish 

 mixed with dark fuscous, in ft with basal joint dilated, second joint much 

 enlarged, very long and thickened with dense scales, above with fringe of long 

 projecting hairs and on inner side with long expansible whitish hair-pencil, 

 terminal joint ^ of second, thickened with dense dark fuscous scales, in 9 

 second joint with appressed scales, terminal joint as long as second, both with 

 anterior edge blackish. Antennas whitish-ochreous, in 9 ringed, in ft suffused 

 with fuscous, basal joint in ft with large whitish-ochreous tuft of scales in 

 front, hollowed and dark fuscous on inner side. Thorax fuscous, collar fuscous, 

 whitish. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs ochreous-yellow, anterior pair dark 

 fuscous, except part of tarsi, middle tibiae whitish banded with dark fuscous 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi with long fine projecting hairs above, spotted and 

 streaked with dark fuscous, median tuft of tibiae ochreous-yellow, mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 in ft obtuse, in 9 round-pointed, termen straight, rather oblique, rounded 

 beneath ; 7 to apex ; light brown, mixed with darker ; basal area mixed with 



