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orange, and with orange median and plical streaks to middle ; in $ a sub-basal 

 tuft of erect scales ; beyond middle a broad orange slightly oblique transverse 

 fascia ; posterior area with white lines on veins, and along costa and termen : 

 cilia pale ochreous, base orange-tinged, with two dark fuscous shades. Hind- 

 wings in $ whitish-ochreous, posteriorly suffused with fuscous, in 9 fuscous ; 

 cilia as in forewings. 



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



Timyra mendicella. Walk. , 



(Decuaria mendicella, Walk. Cat. Tin. 797.) 



Palpi with appressed scales, very long, slender, alike in both sexes. 

 Antennae in <J with large tuft of scales from basal joint in front, hollowed on 

 inner side. Posterior tibiae and tarsi with loose rough projecting scales above, 

 median tuft of tibiae very large, scales yellowish, tipped with black or suffused 

 with dark fuscous. Forewings with vein 7 to termen. Hindwings as in 

 T. sphenias. 



Two specimens, Pundalu-oya, Ceylon, in March (Green). 



Timyra metaUanthes , n. sp. 



£. 19 mm. Head pale ochreous, crown fuscous- tinged. Palpi whitish-och- 

 reous, second joint fringed with projecting hairs above, terminal joint as long as 

 second, slender. Antenna? whitish-ochreous, ringed with fuscous beneath, basal 

 joint with large tuft in front, on inner side hollowed and mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Thorax light shining brownish-ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior tibia? dark fuscous, fringed with hairs beneath, 

 middle tibia? suffused with dark fuscous, with expansible hairs towards apex 

 above, posterior tibiae and first three joints of tarsi with projecting hairs above, 

 median tuft of tibia? very large, mixed with shining metallic grey and black 

 scales. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen straight, rather oblique, rounded beneath ; 7 to termen ; fuscous, irrc- 

 rated with whitish-ochreous except on basal and terminal areas ; an indistinct 

 cloudy whitish-ochreous fascia at \ ; an orange fascia before f , dilated on 

 costa ; cilia whitish-fuscous, with darker sub-basal shade, base pale orange- 

 ochreous. Hindwings fuscous, paler and thinly scaled towards base, 

 hair-pencil ochreous-yellowish ; cilia whitish-ochreous, more yellowish towards 

 base. 



One specimen, Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole). 



Timyra sphenias, n. sp. 



$9- 25-28 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, crown yellowish-mixed, in $ 

 with hairs raised round a quadrate pale ochreous-yellowish area above antenna?. 

 Palpi fuscous, somewhat mixed with ochreous yellowish, in £ with second 

 joint clothed with loose rough hairs, terminal joint half second, much thicken- 

 ed with loose scales, in 9 second joint thickened with loose scales, 

 terminal joint nearly as long as second, tolerably slender. Antenna? ochreous- 

 yellowish, beneath infuscated, basal joint in £ with large tuft of fuscous 

 scales in front. Abdomen ochreous-yellow. Legs purplish-fuscous partially 



