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dark brown; a, pale antemedial angulate mark from submedian fold to 

 imwr margin ; two discocellular black specks ; a submarginal pale line 

 defined on eacb side towards costa bj fuscouSj oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then bent outwards and minutely dentate; a marginal series of 

 dark points. Hindwing semi-hyaline brownish with fine marginal 

 brown lino. 



Bahitat. — Persia ; Goorais Valley, Kashmir. E.vp. 30mm. 



Sect. III. A. 4391. Phycita chloropterella. 



Palpi of male with the second joint hollowed out to receive the brush- 

 like maxillaiy palpi ; frons with tuft of hair ; antennse thickened and 

 flattened with sinus and ridge of scales at base. 



P. 93. 'i392a. — Peycita semiusta, Hmpsn., Rom. Mem., viii. 

 ined., pi. 5G, f. 7. 



9 . Head and thorax ochreous brown; abdomen ochreous -with black 

 dorsal tufts on first two segments. Forewing with the basal half 

 ochreous; an almost medial line of raised scales with a few dark scales on 

 its inner edge, and a prominent black patch on inner margin; the outer 

 half of wing dark rufous with a broad postmedial band of dark grey- 

 brovrn; the margin grey with a series of black specks. Hindwing pale 

 fuscous ; the fringe on median nervure ochreous ; the cilia 

 whitish. 



Habitat. — Gambia; Sikhim ; 1,800' (Dudgeon). Ej-p. 22mm. Tt/j^e — 

 In British Museum. 



4393. Phycita steniella belongs to Sect. I. c, except that the 

 antennae have the shaft laminate instead of ciliated. 



4394. Phycita alhilacah's ^= Phycita (FTi/alospila) leuconeu- 

 RELLA, Rag., Rom. Mem. vii, p. 170. 



Antennae of male with slight ridge of scales at base of shaft and loug 

 uniseriate pectinations. 



440U. Phycita Itemixanthella = 4401. Phycita translugidella. 



4410a. RHODOPH.EA bndoleucella. Hmpsn, Ron. Mem. viii. 

 ined. pi. 56, f. l. 



$. Antenna Avith a large sinus at base of shaft with a scale-tooth 



before it on upperside, and a series of spines in the sinus ; collar with 



a large tbft of hair at middle, mid and hind tibiae fringed with long 



hair ; forewing with the inner area on underside clothed with yellow 



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