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small spots towards apex ; some scattered blackish seales on margins of 
cell anteriorly ; slender black interrupted plical and median streaks on 
posterior half of wing, and two or three black dashes towards costa 
posteriorly : cilia fuscous irrorated with whitish. Hindwings grey, paler 
and thinly scaled anteriorly, veins dark grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 
Pundaluoya, Ceylon (Green) ; in May, one specimen. 
Chelaria tonsa, n. sp. 
@. 14-15 mm. Head and thorax pale glossy whitish-ochreous, shoulders 
brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second 
joint with scales appressed beneath, expanded towards apex above, with 
basal and supramedian bands of dark fuscous irroration, terminal joint 
thickened with projecting scales posteriorly except at apex, with two rings 
of blackish irroration. Abdomen ochreous-whitish irrorated with fusecous. 
Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen 
extremely obliquely rounded ; 6 separate, 7 and 8 stalked; light brownish, 
faintly purplish-tinged, sprinkled with fuscous; a dark purplish-fuscous 
triangular blotch with indigo-blue reflections occupying nearly median 
third of costa, reaching more than half across wing, edged anteriorly with 
whitish-ochreous suffusion ; a small blackish dot on fold at 4 of wing, one 
towards dorsum beyond this, one below middle at 3, and one obliquely 
beyond and above this; some minute ill-defined blackish dots round 
posterior part of costa and termen: cilia pale ochreous tinged with 
brownish, more brownish round apex. Hindwings grey, paler and thinly 
scaled anteriorly ; cilia pale ochreous. 
Khasis ; in October and March, two specimens, 
Chelaria caryodora, n. sp. 
&@. 15-16 mm. Head and thorax greyish-ochreous more or less 
sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi pale whitish-ochreous, second joint 
with whorls of fuscous pale-tipped scales, with long rough broad tuft of 
projecting scales beneath, terminal joint with apical 3 fulvous, thickened 
posteriorly with projecting scales to near apex. Abdomen whitish- 
ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, very 
narrow, costa gently arched, with scales rather prominent at 3, apex 
round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 out of 6; 
pale fulvous irrorated with dark fuscous ; costa, fold, and dorsum irrorated 
with whitish towards base; two dark fuscous dots beneath costa near 
base; a triangular dark fuscous blotch occupying median third of costa, 
reaching half across wing, partially edged with whitish suffusion; four 
violet-whitish oblique strigule on costa posteriorly ; a pale violet inwardly 
oblique mark from tornus, an outwardly oblique mark from termen below 
middle, and two small marks in dise above these ; a black dash resting on 
termen beneath apex: cilia light fuscous, mixed with darker and sprinkled 
with violet-whitish towards base. Hindwings  whitish-ochreous, veins, 
apex, afid termen suffused with fuscous; cilia pale ochreous-yellowish, 
round termen tinged with fuscous. 
Khasis; in June, eight specimens. 
Chelaria silvestris, 0. sp. 
& ¢@. 15-16 mm. Head and thorax whitish-fuscous, face whitish. Palpi 
whitish, second joint with whorls of fuscous white-tipped scales, with 
subbasal and median blackish bars, beneath with moderate tuft of long 
loose rough projecting scales, terminal joint with blackish subbasal ring, 
and supramedian band clothed with projecting scales posteriorly. 
Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, 
costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely 
rounded; 7 and 8 out of 6; fuscous, irrorated with whitish points; two 
blackish dots towards costa near base; a dark fuscous triangular blotch 
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