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elongate, costa moderately arched, apex pointed, termen somewhat sinuate, 
oblique ; 7 separate, to costa, 9 and 10 approximated; lilac-brown, closely 
irrorated with brownish-ochreous, usually with some irregular undefined 
and variable groups of dark fuscous scales: cilia lilac-brownish irrorated 
with pale ochreous, more or less barred with dark fuscous, especially at 
apex. Hindwings rather dark purplish-fuscous ; cilia fuscous sprinkled 
with ochreous-whitish. 
Puttalam, Ceylon (Pole) ; Gooty (Campbell) ; Konkan (Young); in De- 
cember, six specimens. Larval case elongate, nearly flat, parallel-sided 
(12 mm. x 4 mm.), both ends rounded; composed of silk and grains of 
refuse, but entirely coated with silk outside; sent without note of habits 
(Campbell), possibly a wood-feeder, or on dead leaves, but the case is not 
suitable for a lichen-feeder. 
Macheropteris ceramina, 1. sp. 
3 2. 30-39 mm. Head brownish. Palpi brownish irrorated with dark 
fuscous. Thorax dark brown or dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Poste- 
cior tibiss in ¢ with extremely long expansible fine greyish hairs. Fore- 
wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen 
sinuate, oblique; 7 separate, to costa, 9 and 10 remote; dark brown, 
suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous or sometimes partially with blackish, 
costa sometimes obscurely darker-spotted: cilia brown, mixed with dark 
brown and sprinkled with pale ochreous. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ;. 
cilia fuscous. 
Maskeliya, Peradeniya, and Bogawantalawa, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray, 
Green) ; in October, November, and May, seven specimens. 
Macheropteris phenax, n. sp. 
(Macheropteris receptella, Wals. (nec Waik.), Moore Lep. Ceyl. III, 502, 
pl. ceviii, 14.) 
$2. 28-36 mm. Head brownish. Palpi dark brown, scales with 
ochreous-whitish tips. Thorax dark brown. Abdomen dark fuscous. 
Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex much produced, acute, 
termen sinuate, oblique; 2 and 3 approximated or sometimes stalked, 7 
separate, to apex, 9 and 10 remote ; brown or purplish-fuscous, irrorated with 
dark fuscous, with some bluish-leaden scales, without defined markings : 
cilia lilac-brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous, towards base yellow-och- 
reous, at apex with a projection of dark fuscous scales. Hindwings dark 
fuscous; cilia fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous, base pale ochreous. 
Peradeniya, Ceylon (Green) ; in August and December, four specimens. 
I am indebted to Mr. J. Hartley Durrant for the information that this was 
the species on which the genus Macheropteris was founded, and not the 
true receptella, Walk. 
Macheropteris horrifera, 0. sp. 
4. 22mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, Abdomen fuscous. 
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