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Forewings slaty-grey, with numerous (28) black spots, each set in an ill-defined 

 greyish-white ring ; a small black spot at the extreme base of the wing is followed 

 by two adjacent ones, the upper, which is slightly nearer the base than the lower of 

 the two, lies immediately l^elow the costal edge, and is somewhat smaller than that 

 which is beneath it, touching the upper edge of the fold ; at aliout one-fifth the 

 length of the wing is another black subcostal spot, and this is followed by a large 

 discal spot, above and a little before the middle of the wing ; close to the upper edge 

 of the cell, and nearly at the outer one-foui^th of the wing is another spot followed by 

 four similar ones, interjacent between the apical veins, with two larger ones below 

 them near the apical margin of the cell, the outer being somewhat lower than the 

 inner ; about the anal angle of the cell is another spot preceded by four (not already 

 mentioned), two at the lower edge of the fold, and two smaller ones placed obliquely 

 inwards, nearer to the dorsal margin ; around the apex and apical margin is a row 

 of ten squarish spots. The fringes slightly tipped with brownish. Hindwing.s 

 purplish-brown, with the costal margin pale grey ornamented with an elongate brush 

 of curved bright ochreous scales ; the abdominal margin somewhat dilated is bright 

 ochreous ; fringes unicolorous wntli the wings. Abdomen rich ochreous, with a 

 round black spot on the middle of the anterior edge of each of the first five segments. 

 LFnderside : Forewings pale brown, a small brown pencil of hairs at the extreme base 

 of the costa : hindwings brown, the abdominal margin broadly ochreous, thickly 

 matted along the middle. Alxlomen with a double row of round black spots. Legs : 

 the two anterior pair of legs banded pale grey and dark brown, the posteror pair 

 being bright ochreous above, the tarsal joints with brown bands. 



Expanse of wings 37 mms. 



Ceylon . 



This has greatly the appearance of Azinis hilarella ; the pattern of the spots on 

 the forewings being similar; the absence of the strong tufts of hair-like scales on the 

 fore and hindwings distinguish it generically, and the brown over-spreading the whole 

 middle portion of the upperside of the hindwings forms the conspicuous difference in 

 colour. 



Family GELECHIIDiE. 



" Forewings oblong or elongated ; hindwings rather broad, generally indented. 

 Head smooth; labial palpi recurved, generally long, sometimes with the second joint 

 prolonged as a tuft ; maxillary palpi undeveloped. 



Larva with 16 legs, of very various habits, either feeding in leaves and stems of 

 plants, beneath a flat web on underside of leaves of trees, in rolled or screwed-up 



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