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Phalaritica vindex, n. sp, 



c? . 12 mm. Head shining white, crown greyish-ochreous. 

 Palpi white, terminal joint externally sprinkled with dark fuscous. 

 Thorax greyish-ochreous, shoulders suffused with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey, beneath white, sides strongly reflexed. Posterior 

 legs white, bristles pale yellowish, tarsi mostly suffused with dark 

 fuscous irroration. Forewings extremely narrow, widest near 

 base, thence narrowed to acute long-produced apex, costa faintly 

 sinuate ; light fuscous, with scattered small dots of two or three 

 dark fuscous or blackish scales tending to form longitudinal series, 

 especially on anterior half ; some blackish suffusion along dorsum 

 on anterior half, interrupted by two adjacent whitish dots at | ; a 

 short thick outwardly oblique suffused dark fuscous streak from 

 middle of costa ; produced apex margined with extremely minute 

 black specks : cilia grey, round apex with base pale ochrcous and 

 two dark fuscous shades. Hindwings and cilia grey. 

 Ceylon, Maskeliya, in March (Alston) ; one specimen. 



STEUEOSTICHA, n.g. ' 



Head with appressed scales, forehead forming a broad rounded 

 prominent fillet, crown flattened, face very retreating ; tongue 

 short. Antennte 4, in J with rather long ciliations, basal joint 

 considerably dilated with scales, forming an oblong eyecap. Labial 

 palpi moderately long, curved, ascending, with appressed scales, 

 terminal joint as long as second, acute. Maxillary palpi rudi- 

 mentary. Posterior tibine with long projecting bristles above from 

 base to near apex, and apical whorl of bristles, long inner median 

 spurs wfth apical whorls of short bristles, tarsi with whorls of 

 bristles at apex of joints. Forewings with 2 tolerably remote, 3-6 

 gradually more approximated, 7 separate, to costa, 11 from beyond 

 middle. Hindwings ^, linear-lanceolate, cilia 5 ; 2-4 parallel, 5-7 

 closely approximated towards base. 



Allied to Stathmopoda. 



Stereosticha pilulata, n. sp. 



(^ . 9 mm. Head and palpi pale whitish-ochreous. Thorax 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, with two ochreous dorsal lines. 

 Posterior legs ochreous-whitish, apical | of tibiae dark fuscous, tarsi 

 with dark fuscous bands at apex of first three joints and faint ring 

 on fourth, all bristles pale. Forewings very narrow, pointed, costa 

 slightly arched, dorsum almost straight to apex ; dark fuscous, with 

 slight purplish tinge ; a small ochreous-whitish spot on costa before 

 4 ; a small round pale ochreous-yellowish spot in disc beyond |, 

 extreme costal edge shortly whitish above this : cilia rather dark 

 purplish-fuscous, at apex with a whitish dot. Hindwings and 

 cilia dark fuscous. 



Ceylon, Kirindi, in November (Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



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