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gently arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, extremely oblique; pale 
brownish, finely sprinkled with dark fuscous specks, and strewn with short 
straight transverse whitish strigse, and with scattered minute black raised 
dots and strigule ; obscure patches of fuscous suffusion on middle of costa, 
and on dersum at 3 and 2; an angulated transverse series of several small 
blackish tufts before apex: cilia pale brownish, on tetmen with rows of 
black points and an interrupted dark fuscous subbasal shade. Hindwings 
grey; cell, and an elongate patch beneath it towards base, hyaline but 
thinly strewn with grey hairs ; cilia light ochreous-grey. 
Puttalam, Ceylon, in November (Pole); N. Coorg, 3,500 feet, in May 
(Newcome) ; three specimens. 
Prays erebitis, n. sp. 
dg. 12-13 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, face sometimes whitish. 
Palpi fuscous, extreme base and apex of terminal joint whitish, Abdomen 
dark grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 
_pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous, strigulated throughout 
with dark fuscous, obscurely dotted with whitish between the strigulie 
in disc and towards termen; a very undefined oblique darker fuscous 
fascia from middle of dorsum to middle of costa, extended along costa as an 
undefined patch to 2: cilia fuscous, indistinctly mixed with whitish on two 
terminal bars. Hindwings pointed; rather dark fuscous, thinly scaled and 
iridescent on basal half; cilia fuscous. 
Ootacamund, in December (Fletcher) ; two specimens. 
Prays citri, Mill. - 
Madulsima, Maskeliya, Colombo, Ceylon (Pole, Mackwood, Green); N. 
Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome); from January to May. An injurious pest of 
the orange and other species of Citrus, the larva feeding in the shoots ; it 
has been recorded from Southern Europe and Australia (nephelomima, Meyr., 
is a synonym), and Mr. S. Busck has sent me for identification a 
specimen from the Philippines; it is doubtless artificially spread with its 
foodplant. 
Prays ducalis, n. sp. 
@. 16mm. Head and thorax grey slightly mixed with whitish. Palpi 
and abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse-pointed, termen slightly rounded, rather strongly oblique ; white, 
strewn throughout with small dark fuscous spots and strigulee, these dark 
markings are suffused together with fuscous to form irregular elongate 
patches extending along costa from base to ? and along dorsum from base 
to tornus, confluent near base and connected by a narrow oblique dark fuscous 
bar near middle of wing, beyond which the costal patch is expanded with 
dark fuscous suffusion reaching half across wing, and marked above this 
with obscure whitish suffusion on costa; cilia brownish with obscure whitish 
bars below apex and above tornus, at apex dark fuscous on basal half, on 
costa alternately light brownish and whitish. Hindwings tolerably pointed, 
not acute; grey, rather lighter and iridescent towards base; cilia grey. 
Namunukuli, Ceylon, over 6,000 fect, in February (Green) ; one specimen. 
Prays curulis, a. sp. 
Q. 18mm. Head grey, lower part of face white. Palpi grey, apex of 
joints whitish. Thorax grey, posterior extremity and apex of patagia white. 
Forewings elongate, narrow (rather less narrow than in ducalis), costa slightly 
arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; white 
irregularly spotted with grey ; irregular elongate patches of grey suffusion 
transversely marked with dark fuscous extending along costa from base to 7 
and along dorsum from base to tornus, connected by an oblique rather 
broad median fascia, mixed with blackish ; apical area marked with several 
small dark fuscous spots: cilia grey suffused with eoppery, towards base 
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