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dark fuscous towards base : cilia ocbreous-whitisli. Iliii(hviiigs 

 ])ale grey; cilia ochreous-wliitish. 



Wadius, Cuddapab, 4000 feet {Campl>ell) ; one specimen, 



Ctenocompa antibola, n. sp. 



d" $. 12-13 mm. Head and thorax wbitisb, lower pai't of 

 face, palpi, and collar brownisb. Antennal pectinations S ^^^ 

 Abdomen pale greyish. Porewings elongate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, ternien very obliquely rounded ; whitish- 

 ocbreous suffusedly irrorated white, with scattered fuscous and 

 dark fuscous scales ; a dark fuscous dot on end of cell ; sometimes 

 a small cloudy fuscous spot on dorsum beyond middle ; a marginal 

 series of irregular dai-k fuscous dots round apex and termen : cilia 

 o(!hreous-whitish. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 

 Ceylojt, Madulsima, May (Vau</han, Fletcher) ; three specimens. 



Ctenocompa hexaspila, n. sp, 



c? . 21 mm. Head wbitisb, face and palpi dark fuscous. 

 Antennal pectinations 3. Thorax, abdomen grey. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriori}- somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen rounded, rather stronglj' oblique ; light brownish- 

 grey, whitish-tinged in posterior half of cell ; an elongate dark 

 fuscous subcostal mark at base ; two small irregular spots of dark 

 fuscous irroration in disc at | and before middle, two above fold 

 slightly before those, one on dorsum beneath second of these, and 

 one on end of cell ; cloudy dark fuscous dots round posterior part 

 of costa and termen on extremities of veins : cilia pale brownish- 

 grey (imperfect). Hindwings thinly clothed grey hairscales; cilia 

 pale grey. 



Ceylon, Jloskeliya, February {Green); one specimen. 



Melasina nota, n. sp. 



c? . 21 mm. Head whitish. Palpi rather long, whitish, second 

 joint with dense projecting scales above and beneath, suffused 

 fuscous except apex. Antennal pectinations 4. Thorax whitish, 

 shoulders infuscated, crest posteriorly and tips of patagia dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen oclireous-whitish. Forewings elongate, mode- 

 rate, costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen slightly 

 rounded, rather oblique: 9 absent; w^hitish, irregularly sprinkled 

 pale brownish ; base suffused light brownisb, darker towards 

 dorsum ; two or three minute dark fuscous raised dots towards 

 costa anteriorly, and two on costa beyond middle ; a semicircular 

 pale brownish spot on middle of dorsum, containing a blackish 

 elongate mark on fold (i)lical stigma) ; a blackish transverse mark 

 on end of cell, placed in a light brownish spot connected posteriorly 

 1)V a streak with costa near apex ; a light brownish tornal spot 

 almost confluent with this : cilia whitish with interrupted basal 

 and subbasal linos of dark fuscous irroration and partially suH'used 

 brownish on apical tliiid, especially ou lower half of termen. 



