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slightly projecting tuft of raised scales on middle of costa, preceded by a 
blackish dot, from about which proceed two very oblique obscure pale 
ochreous streaks running together into apex; an irregular transverse 
brown blotch on costa at 3, reaching rather wore than half across wing, 
crossing these: cilia whitish-ochreous, at base beneath apical prominence 
with a few black specks. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline in 
disc and towards base ; cilia light-greyish-ochreous. 
Karwar, Kanara, bred in July ( Maxwell); four specimens. Larva feed- 
ing internally in young (but not quite new ) shoots Careya arborea; can be 
detected by excrement protruded in a bunch from the original entrance- 
hole in stem ( Maxwell). 
XYLORYCTIDA. 
Amorbea galbanea, 0. sp. 
. 30-32 mm. Head orange, forehead and face whitish except on sides. 
Palpi light-yellowish. Thorax rather dark-purplish-fuscous. Abdomen 
dark-fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 
termen obliquely rounded ; 3 and 4 separate ; rather dark fuscous, with a 
faint purplish or orchreous gloss ; extreme costal edge ochreous-whitish : 
cilia fuscous, tips pale. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon, from February to April (Green, Alston); three 
specimens. This differs from the two previously described species of the 
genus in having veins 3 and 4 of forewings separate, instead of stalked, 
the same variation occurs within the limits of the allied genus Ptochoryctis 
but the genera are natural without further subdivision. 
Metathrinca memnon, 0. sp. 
g. 24mm. Head, palpi, and antennz blackish, second joint of palpi 
suffused with whitish anteriorly. Thorax silvery-white. Abdomen whitish. 
Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 
rounded; silvery-white; costal edge blackish towards base; a slender 
slightly curved blackish streak from dorsum beyond middle, reaching about 
half across wing ; several very fine linear dark-fuscous marks round apex 
and termen: cilia white. Hindwings and cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Hakgala, Ceylon, in April (Green); one specimen. 
Ptochoryctis anguillaris, n. sp. 
3 2. 12-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Antenne blackish. 
Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; silvery-white ; 3 and 4 separate ; 
a curved dark-fuscous streak running from % of costa to near apex ; a dark 
fuscous streak running along termen from near beneath apex of preceding 
to tornus, where it is expanded into an oblique bilobed fasciaform marks 
reaching to middle of disc: cilia white, with dark-fuscous subbasal line, and 
apical third fuscous. Hindwings ochreous-white ; cilia white. 
Hambantota and Maskeliya, Ceylon, in October and December (Fletcher, 
Alston) ; two specimens. 
Ptochoryctis parabola, n. sp. 
2. 25mm. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen white, palpi infuscated 
above towards base. Forewings moderately elongate, costa moderately 
arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique; 3 and 4 stalked ; 
silvery-white ; costal edge dark-fuscous towards base; dorsal area tinged 
with ochreous; a submarginal series of blackish dots round apex and 
termen, that between veins 5 and 6 absent, one on each side of this 
minute, one above apex and two nearest tornus large: cilia white. Hind- 
wings ochreous-white ; cilia white. 
N. Coorg, 3,500 feet in May (Newcome); one specimen. Similar to 
rosaria, but in that species the palpi are blackish, and the submarginal dots 
uniform and complete. 
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