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Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray); in June, six specimens. 
Chelaria ericta, a. sp. 
8@. 15 mm. Head and thorax whitish. Palpi whitish, partially 
sprinkled with grey, second joint with moderate rough basal and apical 
tufts beneath, lower part of each crossed by a blackish band, terminal 
joint with upper 3 blackish except apex, with submedian and supramedian 
projections of blackish scales posteriorly. Abdomen greyish, anal tuft 
ochreous-whitish, in ¢ with two long expansible whitish genital hair- 
pencils above. Forewings elongate, very narfow, costa gently arched, 
apex tolerably pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 6 closely 
approximated, 7 and 8 stalked; light fuscous, suffusedly irrorated with 
whitish points; a black dot beneath costa near base; a dark fuscous 
streak along costa from } to 3, eut by two oblique whitish strigulze ; an 
elongate dark fuscous spot in disc at 3, and another at 4, representing 
discal stigmata; a similar spot representing plical, rather before first 
discal, connected with a black subdorsal dash beneath it; a blackish dash 
on fold beneath middle, and another at tornus beneath second discal; an 
oblique whitish strigula edged with dark fuscous from costa beyond 3; 
a black dash resting on termen beneath apex : cilia fuscous sprinkled with 
whitish. Hindwings iridescent-grey, paler and semihyaline anteriorly, 
veins and termen darker grey ; cilia grey. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole); in March, ‘May, and October, three 
specimens. 
Chelaria isoptila, n. sp. 
$9. 16-21 mm. Head and thorax whitish sprmkled with fuscous. 
Palpi white somewhat mixed with fuscous, second joint with moderate 
rounded basal and apieal tufts beneath, lower portion of each crossed by a 
dark fusecous band, terminal joint with rough seales posteriorly forming 
median and subapical projections, mostly suffused with dark fuseous 
except base. Abdomen whitish-fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous. 
Forewings elongate, very narrow, costa gently arched, scales rather 
prominent at 2, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 6 separate, 
7 and8 stalked ; fuscous, much mixed and suffused with white, with some 
scattered dark fuscous scales, and small tufts of raised scales; a blackish 
dash near base above middle ; a streak of blackish irroration along basal 
fourth of dorsum; a very irregularly triangular dark fuscous blotch mixed 
with blackish oceupying median third of costa and reaching half across 
wing ; a rather inwardly oblique narrow streak of dark fuscous suffusion 
from tornus reaching more than half across wing, and a spot of dark fuscous 
suffusion on costa beyond this; a slender dark fuscous streak along termen : 
cilia fuseous irrorated with whitish, towards base whitish-ochreous. Hind- 
wings grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline anteriorly, veins, apical area, and 
termen suffused with dark fuscous; cilia grey. 
Kandy, Ceylon, in February (Mackwood); Khasis, in October; three 
specimens. 
Chelaria scriniata, 1. sp. 
$. 17mm. Head and thorax whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous, 
thorax with light brownish expansible posterior crest. Palpi dark fuscous, 
second joint with apical margin and a fine submedian ring white, with 
moderate triangular apical tuft beneath, terminal joint thickened with 
scales somewhat projecting posteriorly beneath apex, white with four dark 
fuscous oblique rings. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, 
very narrow, costa gently arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, 
termen obliquely rounded; 6 separate, 7 absent; fuscous much mixed 
and suffused with white; three elongate dark fuscous marks on costa 
anteriorly, two posteriorly, a flattened-triangular spot in middle, and three 
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