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beneath and ochreous-brown bands sometimes sprinkled with blackish 
traversing these, terminal joint with indistinct fuscous oblique subbasal 
and median rings, and projecting scales posteriorly towards middle. 
Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, 
narrow, widest at {, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely 
obliquely rounded ; 6 separate, to apex, 7 and 8 stalked ; chocolate-brown, 
becoming deeper towards costa and apex; an ochreous-whitish patch 
on base of costa, including a small dark brown spot on base of costa, and 
a black subcostal dot near base; a streak of ochreous-white suffusion 
along dorsum from base to tornus; stigmata represented by undefined 
blackish dashes, plical rather before first discal, preceded by a blackish 
dot on fold; a black dot on tornus ; some irregular pale grey irroration 
on apical third; a black dash resting on termen beneath apex: cilia 
fuscous, towards base mixed with dark fuscous and sprinkled with whitish, 
on costa brownish. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled and iridescent anteriorly, 
veins and termen darker ; cilia grey. 
Khasis ; in June and October, two specimens. 
Chelaria iophana, n. sp. 
3 Q. 14-16 mm. Head and thorax whitish irrorated with dark grey. 
Palpi whitish irrorated with dark grey, second joint beneath with two 
moderate rounded ochreous-tinged tufts, terminal joint ochreous-tinged 
towards middle, posteriorly with projections of dark fuscous scales above 
and below middle. Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with dark grey. 
Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa gently arched, with scales rather 
prominent at 3, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; 6 separate, 
to apex, 7 and 8 stalked ; brownish mixed with grey and raised whitish 
scales, strewn with irregular black longitudinal marks on veins; some 
irregular tufts of scales, especially a large tuft in disc at 23; a triangular 
blackish blotch occupying median third of costa, and reaching 4 across 
wing; cilia fuscous sprinkled with whitish points. Hindwings fuscous, 
thinly scaled and subhyaline anteriorly, with strong violet-blue irides- 
cence ; veins, apical area, and termen suffused with dark fuscous ; cilia grey. 
Central Provinces, Ceylon (de Mowbray) ; in December, three specimens. 
Chelarva corynetis, n. sp. 
SQ. 15-16mm. Head grey suffusedly mixed with white. Palpi 
brown irrorated with whitish, second joint with moderate rounded basal 
and apical tufts beneath, lower portion of each crossed by a band of black 
irroration, terminal joint with well-marked median and subapical projec- 
tions of blackish scales posteriorly. Thorax fuscous irrorated with whitish 
and sprinkled with blackish. Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with 
grey. Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa gently arched, with scales 
rather prominent at 3, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 6 
separate, 7 and 8 stalked; brown, sometimes tinged with ferruginous in 
disc, variably mixed and sometimes posteriorly wholly suffused with dark 
fuscous ; basal area irregularly mixed or suffused with white, with some 
irregular dark fuscous marks, and a black subcostal dash; a narrow 
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elongate black patch extending along costa from 1 to =, cut by three 
oblique white strigule ; an irregular outwardly oblique transverse black 
patch from dorsum before middle, nearly reaching costal patch, edged 
with raised whitish scales ; an irregularly triangular fuscous blackish-edged 
spot on tornus, reaching half across wing, surrounded with white suffusion 
extending to costa; some irregular whitish irroration towards apex : cilia 
fuscous, towards base sprinkled with whitish, with indications of dark 
fuscous bars round apex. Hindwings light fuscous, thinly scaled and 
semihyaline, darker along termen and towards apex, veins rather dark 
fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 
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