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ochreous beyond a short blackish subbasal line, with two diverging grey 
bars, on termen yellowish at base within a fine subbasal line of grey 
irroration. Hindwings and cilia white. 
Mooltan (Manders), Pusa (Lefroy), in April and May ; seven specimens, 
Bred from larvee mining blotches in leaves of Dalbergia sissu (Lefroy). 
Lyonetia melanochalca, 0. sp. 
$2. 8-11 mm. Head silvery-white, crown silvery-grey, apparently 
without tuft. Palpi moderately long, white. Antennze whitish. Thorax 
silvery-grey. Abdomen whitish. Forewings very narrow, elongate- 
lanceolate, acutely pointed, caudulate ; pale ochreous-yellowish ; a coppery- 
bronze patch occupying basal 2? of wing, longitudinally streaked with 
blackish suffusion in disc, brassy-metallic towards dorsum and posterior 
edge, which is inwardly oblique from costa; an inwardly oblique brassy- 
metallic fascia beyond middle, marked with two black longitudinal dashes, 
and terminating above in a black subcostal line which runs to near apex ; 
a brassy-metallic streak along termen, edged above with a black line 
except near apex ; a black apical spot: cilia grey, at apex with a blackish 
hook-projection and another less marked beneath it, on costa wholly white. 
Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Khasis, in October ; two specimens. 
Lyonetia praefulva, n. sp. 
6 @. 8-ll mm. Head, palpi and thorax white, occipital tuft moderate. 
Antenne dark grey, eyecap white. Abdomen grey. Forewings very 
narrow, elongate-lanceolate, acutely pointed, caudulate; shining white ; a 
ferruginous-brown apical blotch, its anterior edge strongly convex, 
margined by a suffused dark fuscous streak running from costa beyond 
middle to tornus, where it is sometimes enlarged into a triangular spot; a 
round black apical dot mostly in cilia: cilia grey, on costa with three dark 
fuscous bars preceded by spots of whitish suffusion, at apex with project- 
ing blackish bar and an oblique one below it, on termen with a blackish 
subbasal line. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole); Khasis; from March to June, and from 
October to December, eight specimens. 
Prytaneutis, n. g. 
Head smooth ; tongue absent. Antenne ¢, 
in @ simple, basal joint 
dilated with scales so as to form a moderate eyecap. Labial palpi short, 
drooping, filiform, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior 
tibize clothed with very long fine hairs above. Forewiugs with 3 absent, 
4 absent, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to costa, 10 absent, 11 from before middle. 
Hindwings under 3, linear, cilia 6; transverse vein absent between 
2 and 5, 3 absent, 4 absent, 5-7 approximated at base. 
Allied to Lyonetia, which however has the antennw always longer than 
forewings. 
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