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@.15 mm. Head fuscous, face pale fuscous mixed with whitish. Palpi 
pale fuscous, terminal joint whitish, anterior edge dark fuscous. Antenne 
white. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen grey, beneath whitish-ochreous. Pos- 
terior tibise light ochreous-yellowish. Forewings elongate, costa slightly 
arched, apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, oblique; 8 and 9 out of 7; 
fuscous: cilia whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Peradeniya, Ceylon (Green); in July, one specimen. Immediately dis- 
_ tinguished from cholopis by the yellow posterior tibiz. 
Homaloxestis galeodes, n. sp. 
So 2.10-12 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen glossy 
whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 
tolerably pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 9 separate ; glossy 
whitish-ochreous, tinged with fuscous: cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings 
grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Khasis, in October ; thirteen specimens. 
Homalovestis eribanota, n. sp. 
36 2.13-16mm. Head shining purple-fuscous, sides of crown ochreous- 
yellowish, face, palpi, and antennz ochreous-whitish. Thorax fuscous, 
sometimes partially suffused with ochreous-yellowish. Abdomen in g 
whitish-ochreous, hairy above, in 9 fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather 
narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen extremely obliquely 
rounded ; 9 separate; glossy fuscous: cilia whitish-fuscous. Hindwings 
grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous more or less infuscated. 
Khasis, in July and August ; Gooty (Campbell) ; eighteen specimens. 
Homaloxestis melicrata, n. sp. 
¢.14-15 mm. Head ochreous-yellow. Palpi pale ochreous-yellowish, 
lower half of second joint and anterior edge of terminal joint dark fuscous. 
Antenne ochreous-yellow spotted with dark fuscous, with a dark fuscous 
band just below apex. Thorax ochreous-yellow more or less tinged with 
brownish. Abdomen pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 
costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; 9 
separate ; deep ochreous-yellow ; markings light brownish irrorated with 
dark fuscous ; a spot on base of costa, and costal edge more or less suffused 
with dark fuscous irroration from this to 2; an undefined cloudy fascia 
from 4 of costa to middle of dorsum; a cloudy spot representing second 
discal stigma ; a triangular patch on costa at 3, whence an irregular fascia 
runs to tornus;an undefined patch on upper 2 of termen, edged by a dark 
fuscous terminal line: cilia ochreous-yellow. Hindwings whitish-ochreous 
tinged with grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 
Khasis, in August ; three specimens. 
Homaloxestis turbinata, n. sp. 
3. 13 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-yellowish. Palpi ochreous- 
yellowish, lower half of second joint dark fuscous. Antenne yellowish 
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