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narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; white, irregularly irrorated ochreous 

 or ochreous-fuscous, tending to form suffused spots beneath dark 

 markings ; raarkings blackisli ; elongate spots on costa towards 

 base, before middle, and at | ; a dot above dorsum near base ; small 

 dots above and below fold at | ; an elongate mark in middle of disc, 

 and a linear dot on fold somewhat before it ; a suffused spot on 

 torn us ; a narrow elongate spot or sliort streak in disc at ^ ; two 

 dots on costa posteriorly and one at apex, sometimes little marked: 

 cilia whitish, round apex two or three lines of dark grey specks. 

 Hindwiugs ])ale grey, paler and bluish-tinged in disc ; cilia grey- 

 whitish ; a long expansible pale ochreous hairpencil from base of 

 dorsum. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, April, December [Pole); two specimens. 

 A small 9 (7 mm.) with quite similar markings from Dliarwar, 

 Kanara, May (Maxwell), may probably be referable here. 



Recur varia trichaspis, n. sp. 



cj 2 • 9-11 mm. Head, thorax white sprinkled dark fuscous. 

 Palpi white, basal half and subapical ring of second joint, and two 

 rings of terminal irrorated dark fuscous. Abdomen pale grey. 

 Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate ; white irregularly irrorated 

 fuscous ; markings blackish-fuscous ; elongate spots on costa 

 towards base, before middle, and at | ; a small spot beneath 

 fold near base ; suffused spots representing stigmata, plical 

 beneath first discal ; a suffused spot on tornus and one at 

 apex ; a cloudy blackish dot in disc towards apex : cilia 

 whitish, tw^o or three rows of dark fuscous specks. Hind- 

 Avings pale bluish-grey ; cilia whitish-grey ; in (5* a long expan- 

 sible pale greyish-ochreous hairpencil along costa from base, 

 supported beneath by a semioval membranous hyaline lobe 

 occupying median third of costa. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, September (Pole) ; six specimens. 



Ephysteris chersaea Meyr. 



Of this South African species I now recognise that oscliophora 

 Meyr., from India and Ceylon, is only a synonym. I have it also 

 from the Tenimber Is., New Guinea. The larva is stated to feed 

 in dry vegetable refuse. 



\l CNAPHOSTOLA, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales ; ocelli small, posterior ; tongue 

 developed. Antennae -i, in J simple, basal joint elongate, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with 

 appressed scales, terminal joint as long as second, moderate, acute. 

 Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior 

 tibiae clothed with long hairs above. Forewings with 1 h furcate, 

 2 from towards angle, G and 8 stalked, 7 absent, 1 1 from beyond 



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