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on inner side and sliglitly by fuscous on outer side. Hindwing semi- 

 liyaline slightly tinged \\\t\\ fuscous ; the veins, Ji margina] line, and line 

 through cilia fuscous. 



Tlahital. — Puttalani, Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 16mm. Type — In British 

 Museum. 



4351. Nephopteeyx basisignella, belongs to Sect. Ill, D. A. 



$ . Forewing with sufifused black scales along median nervure below ; 

 hindwing with streaks of black scales along median nervure and 

 nervules, and a few on subcostal veins. 



Sect. I., 4382a. Myelois strigivenella, Hmpsu., Rom. Mem., viii. 

 ined., pi. 55, f. 13. 



$. liead and thorax brown slightly 'tinged with grey; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with grey-brown. Forewing grey ; the veins strongly 

 streaked with dark brown ; the whole inner area suffused with 

 dark brown : cilia grey-brown with a pale line at base. Hindwing 

 semi-hyaline silky white ; the veins slightly darker ; the costa brown ; 

 a fine brown marginal line and line through the cilia. 



i^a6i^a^.— K basis. Eccp. 26mm. 



4387a. Phycita symphokiella, Hmpsn., Rom. Mem., viii. ined., 

 pi. 56, f. 16. 



Head, horax and abdomen grey-brown slightly irroraled with fuscous. 

 Forewing variegated with grey, red-brown, dark-brown and black 

 shades; an oblique dark-edged white line from cell to inner margin, 

 with a tuft of raised dark scales on its inner edge and a triangular 

 rufous patch beyond it on the inner side of the sinuous dark edged white 

 medial line, which has diffused black beyond its costal portion ; two 

 prominent black discocellular specks ; a submarginal whitish line angled 

 outwards on vein G and defined by a black line on its inner edge, some 

 rufoUs 8uff"usion beyond it; the margin grey with a series of black 

 specks. Hindwing pale fuscous, rather darker towards margin ; cilia 

 paler with a fine dark line through them. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 24mm. 



4389a. AntennJi) of male with the shaft slightly curved near base 

 with scale-teeth in the sinus. 



Phycita polyptychella, Bag., Rom. Mem., vii. p. 244, pi. 16, f. 34. 



5 . Head, thorax and abdomen greyish-brown mixed with dark 



brown and ochreous scales. Forewing grey, thickly irrorated with 



