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its length ; legs smooth, leather stout; tibiaa with a short squamous fringe ; spurs very 

 long ; hind femora thinly clothed with long hairs." 



TIPHA IRRORELLA, Walsiiigham (Plate 209, Fig. 9, i). 



Head, palpi, and antennaa pale ochreous. Thorax and forewiugs creamy-white, 

 profusely sprinkled with purple scales ; the bnse of the costal margin and the outei- 

 third of the wing are more thickly covered than the remainder of the wing, so that 

 the ground colour is partially obliterated ; a narrow orange-ochreous border runs 

 around the apex and apical margin at the base of the purplish-grey fringes. Hind- 

 wdngs grey, with pale ochreous fringes tipped with shining grey. Posterior tibiiB 

 tufted with whitish-grey, and de:>p purplish-brown scales ; abdomen greyisli-ochreous. 



Expanse 17.V mnjs. 



Ceylon. 



TIPHA TINCTELLA, Walsingham (Plate 209, Fig. 11). 



Head smooth, ochreous ; palpi tinged with purplish-brown externally, long, re- 

 curved, slender, the second joint with closely appressed scales, third joint as long as 

 the second, very slender and acute ; antennae simple, pale ochreous, with elongate 

 basal joint, not tufted ; thorax pale ochreous, purplish-brown at the sides. Forewings 

 bright ochreous, the costal margin broadly smeared with ]iurplish-brown to within 

 one-third of the apex; a small patch of raised scales of the same colour on the dorsal 

 margin near the base; the dorsal margin is shaded beyond the middle with purplish- 

 brown, but this does not reach beyond the anal angle ; fringes bright ochreous at the 

 base, outwardly purplish-grey, the two colours being separated by a slender dark 

 brown line. Hindwings brownish-grey, with pale ochreous fringes, tipped with shin- 

 ing grey. Posterior legs pale ochreous, sprinkled with purple metallic scales, 

 conspicuous ochreous tufts above the first pair of spurs, mingled with a few bright 

 purple scales. 



Expanse of wings 21 mms. 



Ceylon. 



Genus DECUARIA. 



Dccvarin, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. JI. xxix. p. 797 (18G4). 



"Male. Wings long: forewings narrow, rounded at the tips; costa straight, 

 exterior border slightly convex, very oblique; veins with the usual structure. Body 

 rather stout ; proboscis moderately long ; palpi smooth, slender, very long, much com- 

 pressed, rising high above the head, third joint setiform, as long as the second ; antennae 

 longer than the forewings, joints elongate, cyathiform ; abdomen extending much 

 beyond the hindwings ; legs smooth, hind legs especially long ; spurs very long. Allied 

 to Gelcrhia." 



