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a narrow dark fuscous basal fascia, followed by a clear pale ochreous-yellow 

 subbasal fascia, edged posteriorly with dark fuscous suffusion ; a slender 

 cloudy dark fuscous slightly oblique median fascia, slightly bent in middle ; a 

 dark fuscous streak along termen : cilia pale whitish-ochreous, becoming ochre- 

 ous-yellow at base and on coata, with a dark fuscous subbasal line round apex 

 and on termen, beyond this tinged and somewhat mixed with fuscous. Hind- 

 wings posteriorly clothed with hair-scales, rather dark fuscous, disc more 

 or less broadly suffused with light ochreous-yellowish ; a subdorsal groove 

 enclosing an ochreous-yellowish hair-pencil from base ; a dark fuscous terminal /. 



line ; cilia whitish-ochreous, becoming ochreous-yellowish towards base, with 

 fuscous subbasal line. 



Five specimens, Maskeliya and Maturatla, Ceylon, in March, May, June, and 

 October (Pole, de Mowbray). 



Timyra orthadia, n. sp. 



^ $. 16-18 mm. Head whitish-ochreous mixed with fuscous. Palpi very 

 long, whitish, in ^ second joint much elongated, flatly compressed, clothed 

 with very long whitish hairs above and beneath, terminal joint short, greyish, 

 thickened with dense scales, hardly pointed, in 9 second joint smooth -scaled, 

 slender. Antennas grey, in ^ darker, with large dense concave anterior tuft on 

 basal joint. Thorax rather dark fuscous, posterior extremity ochreous-whitish. 

 Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs dark fuscous ringed with whitish, posterior 

 tibiiB clothed above with very long projecting curled whitish hairs mixed with 

 dark fuscous in middle, Forewings elongate, ratlier narrow, costa moderately 

 arched towards extremities, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; 3, 4, 5 

 af proximated, 7 to apex ; whitish-ochreous ; a narrow dark fuscous basal 

 fascia ; two broad rather dark fuscous fasciae about ^ and f , first somewhat 

 narrowed towards costa, second rather oblique, more or less constricted in disc, 

 beneath dilated and confluont posterioi'ly with a broad dark fuscous suffusion 

 or irroration in disc ; between these fasciae a very undefined oblique median line 

 of dark fuscous irroration ; a dark fuscous terminal streak, thickened at apex ; 

 cilia whitish-ochreous becoming ochreous-yellowish towards base, with a dark 

 fuscous antemedian shade, Hindwings fuscous ; in ^ a broad median longi- 

 tudinal ochreous-yellow band, including a deep central groove, and a subdorsal 

 groove enclosing an ochraous-yellow hairpencil from base ; cilia whitish- 

 ochreous. 



Eight specimens, Madulsima, Matale, and Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January, 

 April, and October (Vaughan, Alston, Pole). Allied to the following. 



Timyra irrorella, Wals. 



{Tipha irrorella, Wals., Moore Lep. Ceyl, iii, 517, pi. 209, 9.) 



Peradeniya, Maturatta, Diyatalawa, Puttalam, Ceylon ; a common species. 



Timyra crassella, Feld. ^ 



{Tlarpella crassella, Feld. Beis. Nov. pi. cxxxix, 22 ; Timyra sphenias, Meyr.) T 



Folder's figure is very poor and not characteristic, and the locality is said to 

 be Ternate, hence I failed to recognise his species ; but I have since seen his 



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