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edge suffused with black; a grey triangular przetornal spot ; two or three 
black strigule on termen: cilia grey mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings: 
with 3 and 4 stalked; thinly clothed with blackish-grey scales, membrane 
with strong violet-blue iridescence ; cilia grey-whitish, with greyer sub- 
basal shade, on dorsum long. 
Nilgiris, 6,000 feet (Andrewes); in May, one specimen. 
Spilonota aestuosa, 0. sp. 
_g. 17-21 mm. Head and thorax olive-greenish marked with dark 
fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint with apical bar and two 
spots dark fuscous. Antennal notch close above base. Forewings elongate, 
posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, with rather narrow fold 
extending from base to beyond middle, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, some- 
what oblique; dull olive-greenish, mixed or strigulated with dark fuscous ;. 
a large blackish blotch extending along costa, from base to 3, and reaching 
2 across wing, lower edge with a triangular emargination beneath middle 
of wing edged with white anteriorly, posterior edge rather oblique, with 
two acute projections, edged with leaden-metallic; a subtriangular black 
preetornal spot edged with leaden-metallic ; costa posteriorly black with pairs 
of whitish strigul, giving rise to two oblique leaden-metallic strigz and a 
blackish striga between them ; a leaden-metallic streak close before termen 
in middle, preceded by a blotch of blackish suffusion: cilia olive-greenish, 
mixed with dark fuscous round apex and upper part of termen. Hindwings 
with 3 and 4 stalked; fuscous, veins and termen dark fuscous; cilia 
fuscous. 
Darjiling; Khasis; m May and August, two specimens. 
Crusimetra, n. g. : 
Antenne in 3 minutely ciliated. Palpi moderate, porreeted, second 
joint with rough projecting scales above and beneath, terminal joint short. 
Thorax with small posterior crest. Forewings with 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 
termen. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximated at base, 6 and 
7 stalked. 
Crusimetra verecunda, n. 8p. 
3 2. 13-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey or dark grey, sprinkled 
with whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched,in 3 without fold, 
apex obtuse, termen sinuate, somewhat oblique; ochreous-brown or ferru- 
ginous-brown, variably irrorated or suffused (sometimes wholly) with dark 
grey whitish-tipped scales, apex and terminal area usually but not always 
remaining brown; amore or less marked spot of blackish irroration or 
suffusion towards dorsum before middle: cilia blackish, with some whitish 
points. Hindwings ochreous-grey-whitish or whitish-grey-ochreous, suffu- 
sed with grey towards apex; cilia ochreous-whitish, with two grey 
shades, 
Namunakuh, Ceylon (Green); in February, six specimens, 
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