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Genus BLABOPHANES Zeller. 

 Blabophanes, Zcller, Linn. Ent. vi. p. 100 (1852). 



BLABOPHANES LONGELLA (Plate 209, Fig. 1). 

 Tinea lotifjella, Walker, Ciital. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvlii. p. 479 (1863). 

 " White. Head slightly tufted ; palpi porrect, extending very little beyond the 

 head, third joint elongate-conical, much shorter than the second ; antennge rather 

 stout, much shorter than the forewings ; hind tibite fringed. Wings rather narrow : 

 forewiugs blackish chalybeous, rounded at the tips, with a broad white costal streak, 

 ■which extends from before the middle nearly to the tip, and forms two slight angles 

 on its hind side ; exterior border extremely oblique : hindwings dark cinereous, with 

 an asneous tinge. 



Expanse 10 lines." 



Genus ALAVONA. 

 Alavona, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 514 (1863). 

 " Male. Wings rather narrow : forewings hardly acute ; costa straight; exterior 

 border moderately oblique ; third inferior vein rather more distant from the fourth 

 than from the third ; body stout ; proboscis obsolete ; palpi stout, porrect, slightly 

 pilose, much shorter thau the breadth of the head, third joint elongate-conical, about 

 half the length of second ; antenna moderately pectinated ; abdomen extending 

 somewhat beyond the hindwings ; apical tuft rather large ; legs stout ; tibite 

 pubescent; spurs very long." 



ALAVONA TAPROBANA (Plate 208, Fig. 7, 8, J ? ). 



Male. Cinereous-brown : forewing numerously covered with dark brown scales, 

 which are transversely disposed exteriorly, and there form broad strigte, with more 

 or less black tipt raised scales : hindwing and abdomen cinereous-brown. Head, 

 antennse, tip of palpi, and legs brownish-ochreous ; base of palpi, and bands on fore 

 and middle legs dark brown. Female. More uniformly brown : forewing with less 

 defined darker tipt scales. Palpi and legs brown. 



Expanse, t? A, ? IfV inch. 



Ceylon. From Dr. Thwaites' Collection. 



ALAVONA THWAITESII (Plate 208, Fig. 3, 4, 5 ? ) . 

 Male. Umber brown : forewing with the exterior border broadly from the 

 apex, and the posterior border pale cinereous-brown ; costal area with darker brown- 

 tipt raised scales, which are disposed transversely in the form of strigse : hindwinof 

 and abdomen pale cinereous brown. Palpi dark brown ; head, antennge, and legs 

 pale brownish-ochreous ; legs, including the tarsi with dark brown bands, which are 



