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very long : forewings acute ; tapering from the interior angle to the tips ; exterior 

 border extremely oblique : hindwings cinereous. Palpi smooth, nearly twice longer 

 than the breadth of the head, third joint setiform, shorter than second; auteunse 

 stout ; legs smooth, rather short and slender. 



Expanse 5 lines." 



Ceylon. 



GELECHIA IMMERITELLA. 



GeJechia immeritella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 63i (1864). 



" ^neous fawn-colour. Wings rather narrow : forewings slightly acute ; with 

 five whitish oblique elongated costal points ; first point before the middle, second 

 beyond the middle, third, fourth and fifth approximate, near the tip ; exterior border 

 slightly convex, rather oblique : hindwings paler. Head iu front silvery cinereous ; 

 palpi of the usual structure, more than twice longer than the breadth of the head ; 

 third joint almost as long as second ; legs smooth, slender. 



Expanse 5 lines." 



Ceylon. 



GELECHIA ALIENELLA. 



GeJechia alicnella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 634 (1864). 



" Male. Pale cinereous ftiwn-colour. Wings moderately broad ; fringe long : 

 forewings slightly acute, speckled with brown along the costa and along the exterior 

 border; two blackish points in the disc, one before the middle, the other beyond the 

 middle ; exterior border very oblique : hindwings cinereous. Palpi longer than 

 twice the breadth of the head, third joint setiform, rather stout, much shorter than 

 second ; antenna stout, much shorter than the forewings ; legs smooth, rather long 

 and stout. 



Expanse h\ lines." 



Ceylon. 



GELECHIA AMICELLA. 



Gelechia amice.Ua, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 634 (1864). 



"Male. Cinereous fawn-colour; slender. Wings narrow: forewings acute; 

 with a large black cinereous-bordered spot on the interior border before the middle, 

 and a short transverse streak of the same hue in the disc at two-thirds of the length ; 

 a blackish exterior band, which extends diffusedly to the streak on the inner side, 

 and is bordered by a slightly undulating cinereous fine on the outer side ; exterior 

 border very oblique. Palpi more than twice longer than the breadth of the head, 

 third joint very slender, longer than second; less smooth, rather short and slender; 

 tarsi with ceneous bands. 



Expanse 7 lines." 



Cevlon. 



