&6Y Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. XXTI., No. 8. (July 80, 1912. 
and marbled with dark fuscous; costa spotted with dark fuscous, strigula- 
ted with fuscous-whitish between the spots ; a quadrate dark fuseous spot 
beneath middle of disc; an ochreous-whitish diseal dot at 3, preceded by 
a spot of dark fuscous suffusion ; cilia fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal 
shade. Hindwings as broad as forewings, dorsat area folded over into a 
deep pocket and clothed with long rough hairs with a thickened glandular 
area, 3 and 4 connate; fuscous; cilia whitish-fuseous, with fuseous 
subbasal shade. 
N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Neweome); im August, two specimens. Very 
similar superficially to helota, but distinguished by the sexual characters, 
especially the absence of the costal fold, which in helota is long; a third 
very similar species is brachyptycha (described from Australia, but oceurring 
also in Ceylon) whieh has a short costal fold. 
Lobesia genialis, n. sp. 
3g.12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face suffused with white, crown with 
two blackish spots. Palpi pale ochreous irrorated with dark fuseous, 
terminal joint, apex of seeond, and base white. Thorax ochreous mixed 
with whitish and transversely barred with blackish. Abdomen elongate, 
ochreous, anal segment with two black basal dots. Posterior tibize and 
basal joint of tarsi elothed with rough whitish seales above. Forewings 
elongate, narrow at base, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa almost 
straight, with elongate glandular swellmg beyond middle, apex obtuse, 
termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; light brownish-oehreous mixed 
with keaden-grey and white, with fine seattered black scales; basal pateh 
irregularly marked with deeper ochreous and blaek, outer edge very 
obtusely angulated in middle; space between this and central fascia 
suffused with grey on dorsal half; central fascia ochreous-brown, direct, 
posterior edge with strong acute-triangular projection im middle, marked 
with a eurved blaek streak along costal half; a smal! blaekish spot on 
posterior portion of costal gland; a triangular dorsal spot between centra} 
fascia and tornus irrorated with dark grey and blaekish ; four pairs of 
whitish strigulze on posterior half of costa, last giving rise to a cireularly 
eurved white line which cuts off a brown apieal spot centred with blaekish ; 
a brownish blotch before middle of tornus, above convex and limited by a 
white line running to termen above middle, beneath undefined : cilia light: 
ochreous suffused with whitish exeept round apex. Hindwings with 
termen deeply excavated so as to form an elongate narrow apical lobe or 
projection and broader rounded dorsal lobe ; white, apical lobe rather dark 
grey ; cilia whitish, round apex grey. 
Peradeniya, Ceylon (Green); in January, one specimen. 
Polychrosts cellifera, n. sp. 
3 Q. 14-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale ochreous mixed with 
brownish and dark fuscous. Posterior tibix in ¢ clothed with whitish 
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