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TORTRICID^. 



£&ofZa Walk. 



Antennae in $ moderately ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected or ascending. 

 Thorax without crest. Forewings without costal fold ; 3 and 4 stalked, 7 to 

 termen. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 absent, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Apparently related to OxygrapJia, but easily distinguished by the different 

 neuration. 



Ehoda smaragdinana Walk. 

 {Ehoda smaragdinana Walk. Cat. Suppl. 1805.) 



$ $. 14-18 mm. Head and thorax green. Palpi white, spotted with olive- 

 _^reem Abdomen dark-grey. Forewings suboblong. costa abruptly arched and 

 roughened with scales near base, broadly prominent and with a patch of rough 

 projecting scales beyond middle, apex rounded-obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 

 vertical ; deep emerald-green ; a round spot in middle of disc, a transverse 

 spot from dorsum beyond middle nearly reaching it and sometimes a subcostal 

 dot beyond middle mixed with ochreous and blackish raised scales, and edged 

 -with whitish ; a narrow dark grey terminal fascia continued round apex, an- 

 teriorly marked with blackish and edged with white, terminating just above 

 tornus ; a blackish wbite-edged tornal dot ; cilia grey, base spotted with pale 

 ochreous, Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous, tips whitish. 



Seven specimens, Kandy and Haragam, Ceylon, in March, August, and Sep- 

 tember (Green). Walker's type is from New Guinea ; his description is unre- 

 cognisable. 



Oxygrapha Hb. 



I think it best to follow Lord Walsingham in adopting this name for the 

 genus standing as Acalla in my Handbook. 

 Oxygrapha sagmalias n. sp. 



$. 17-20 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous or 

 whitish-fuscous. Forewings moderately elongate, costa strongly and evenly 

 •arched throughout, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, little oblique, rounded 

 beneath ; fuscous, obscurely strigulated with darker, more or less mixed or 

 sprinkled with ferruginous-brown, some very small scattered scale-tufts ; a curved 

 ochreous-yellow ferruginous-mixed fascia-like blotch running from dorsum near 

 base obliquely outwards to middle of disc, thence bent towards tornus and 

 terminating at %, but this blotch is sometimes (var, 2) wholly obsolete ; a very 

 small white spot before apex ; cilia dark fuscous, base and a median line paler. 

 Hindwings pale fuscous or whitish-fuscous, suffused with darker posteriorly • 

 cilia whitish-fuscous, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Five specimens, Maskeliya and Horton Plains, €eylon, in February and 

 March (Pole, Green). 

 JEpagoge siderantha n, sp, 



$ $, 12-14 mm. Head and palpi pale brownish-ochreous or brownish, 

 palpi in <^ 3, in 9 almost 4. Thorax brown, with large posterior crest tipptd 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-fuscous, suffused with grey posteriori-y 



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