614 EXOTIC SIICEOLEPlDOrTERA. 



rather obliquely rounded ; light fuscous, indistinctly strigulated 

 ■with dark fuscous, costal edge pale greyish-ochreous except 

 towards base ; very small cloudy dark fuscous spots beneath middle 

 of disc and on end of cell ; five cloudy dark fuscous dots on 

 posterior half of costa ; an even subterminal series of very small 

 cloudy dark fuscous spots : cilia pale greyish-ochreous, with 

 fuscous or dark fuscous submedian and apical shades, and obscurely 

 barred with fuscous. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia greyish- 

 ochreous, with fuscous subbasal shade, base paler. 



$ . 39-43 mm. I'orewings with markings more obscure ; hind- 

 wings grey. 



S. India, Nilgiris, 3500 feet, in April (Andrewes) ; six specimens. 



MacLaeropteris truculenta, n. sp. 



(S . 26-30 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brown mixed with 

 paler and darker. Abdomen dark fuscous. Posterior tibia3 with 

 extremely long expansible fuscous hairs. Forevvings elongate, 

 costa moderately arched, apex obtuse-pointed, termen slightly 

 sinuate, oblique ; 7 separate, to costa, 9 and 10 remote; brown, 

 somewhat mixed and posteriorly suffused with pale brownish- 

 ochreous ; about ten small dark brown s])ots or strigulae on costa ; 

 a large tuft almost at base, two near dorsum at ^ and beyond 

 middle, and others in disc less marked; an irregular sometimes 

 interrupted dark brown streak from disc before middle to apex : 

 cilia brown sprinkled with pale ochreous points and barred with 

 rather dark fuscous, Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous, cilia 

 lighter round apex. 



Ceylon, Colombo {2Iacluood); two specimens. 



Machaeropteris dryinarma, n. sp. 



S. 23 mm. Head and thorax light brownish-ochreous. Palpi 

 dark grey. Abdomen grey. Posterior tibiaj with extremely long 

 expansible pale greyish-ochreous hairs. Forewings elongate, costa 

 moderately arched, apex acute, produced, termen concave, rather 

 oblique; 7 separate, fo costa, 9 and 10 stalked; light ochreous- 

 brownish ; costal edge sprinkled with dark fuscous towards base ; 

 a very oblique ridge-tuft near base, and tufts near dorsum at 5 and 

 I, all tipped with dark purple-fuscous ; some raised scales tinged 

 with fuscous in disc and posteriori}', and a dark fuscous tuft on 

 lower angle of cell, whence fuscous lines extend along veins 2 and 

 3 : cilia pale ochreous suffused with light purplish and sprinkled 

 with blackish. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia pale greyish, 

 with two darker shades. 



CooKG, Hercara, in October {Fletcher) ; one specimen. I find on 

 juster appreciation that freniyera Meyr. and vernacnla Meyr. (both 

 still witli male unknown) are wrongly referred to Machaeropteris, 

 since the antennae are half length of forewings, and tlie forewings 

 are without tufts of scales ; vernacnla may be placed in Myrme- 

 cozeJa, in which genus I find the female has the palpi clothed with 



