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greyish. Forewings lanceolate, apex produced, upturned; bronzy- 

 grey or light purplish-fuscous : cilia grey. Hindwings light grey, 

 with bronzy reflection, in c7 paler and thinly scaled on basal half, 

 darker and purplish-tinged towards apex ; in (5 a long light grey 

 subcostal hairpencil from base lying beneath forewings ; cilia light 

 grey, in cS whitish-grey round lower part of termen and dorsum. 



Seychelles, Silhouette, 1000-1500 feet, in August and Sep- 

 tember; forty-one specimens. This is the species recorded by me 

 (Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. xiv. 298) as identical with the South 

 African plmeoclialca, an error arising from failure to observe the 



(5 characters as specified above, which are quite distinctive ; 



2 examples of the two species are, however, almost indistinguish- 

 able, I can see no difference except that autogama is very slightly 

 smaller, and has the wings slightly less pointed. 



Hieroxestis artiphanes, n. sp. 



S $ • 10-12 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-brownish, face 

 whitish. Palpi and abdomen ochreous-whitish. Porewings lanceo- 

 late, apex produced, upturned ; ochreous-brownish, sometimes 

 variably tinged with ochreous-yellow ; a small indistinct whitish 

 s^jot at base of dorsum ; a rather oblique triangular white spot on 

 dorsum beyond middle, reaching half across wing, anterior edge 

 convex and margined with dark fuscous suffusion ; beyond this 

 sometimes an ochreous-yellow narrow patch reaching to toruus, 

 edged above with darker suffusion ; fine white very oblique lines 

 from costa at middle and £, reaching half across wing, their tips 

 connected by a blackish line running to apex ; a cloudy white spot 

 on termen towards middle, connected above by a line of scattered 

 white scales with apex of dorsal white spot ; a black apical dot, 

 preceded by a suboblique silvery-metallic mark : cilia light grey, 

 towards base suffused with ochreous-yellowish, round apex whitish 

 with two oblique dark fuscous lines on costa, two projecting from 

 apex, and two beneath apex all converging to apical dot. Hind- 

 wings grey ; cilia pale greyish. 



Ceylon, Maskeliya, from September to November {Pole,) ; seven 

 specimens. 



Hieroxestis copidora, n. sp. 



S . 11 mm. Head white, with a blackish bar running across 

 middle of front of tuft and thence along sides of crown. Palpi 

 dark fuscous. Thorax white, shoulders narrowly dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish. Eorewings lanceolate, apex produced, up- 

 turned ; dark fuscous ; a white median longitudinal streak from 

 base to |, widest at base where it reaches dorsum, thence attenuated 

 to a point ; fine white very oblique lines from costa at middle and 

 |, reaching half across wing ; a very oblique thick attenuated 

 rather curved white streak from dorsum beyond middle, reaching 

 to beneath apex of first costal line ; an oval white spot ou 

 termen towards middle ; a blackish apical dot : cilia whitish- 

 fuscous, round apex whitish, wdth three oblique dark fuscous 



