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type, wliich is certainly this insect ; the alleged locality is doubtless erroneous, 

 as is frequently the case with Felder's species. 

 Timyra peronetris, n. sp. 



$. 29-30 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax rather dark fuscous ; palpi very long, 

 basal joint elongate, so that it forms a sharp elbow with second, second joint 

 reaching much above vertex, bi-oadly compressed, internally with large dense 

 expansible tuft of very long whitish hairs, terminal joint about half second, 

 _dilated with dense scales, tolerably obtuse. Antenna) f uscous-ochreous, basal 

 joint with large dense anterior dark fuscous scale-tuft. Abdomen fuscous, 

 sides suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with 

 pale yellowish, anterior tibias rough-haired beneath, middle tibiae rough-scaled, 

 posterior tibias hairy beneath and with very large curled median tuft of light 

 fuscous scales above, posterior tarsi rough-scaled above throughout, Forewings 

 elongate, narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 3, 4, 5 approximated, 7 to termen ; 

 dark fuscous, with a few whitish-ochreous scales ; a tuft of scales in disc near 

 base ; a transverse light ochreous-yellow mark at |, somewhat dilated upwards, 

 reaching from near costa to below middle : cilia whitish-fuscous, darker towards 

 tips, base pale ochreouf -yellow, with a dark fuscous subbasal shade. Hind- 

 win"S oblong, termen beneath apex hardly oblique ; ochreous-yellow ; a mode- 

 rate suffused dark fuscous streak along costa, dilated at apex ; a suffused dark 

 fuscous streak proceeding from a basal tuft of scales along dorsum and termen 

 to above middle, widest at tornus and gradually attenuated; a groove along 

 fold enclosing an exceedingly long expansible pale ochreous-yellowish hair- 

 pencil ; cilia whitish-ochreous, becoming ochreous-yellow towards base on upper 

 part of termen, with fuscous subbasal shade obsolete on yellow area. 

 . Three specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January and February (Pole, Alston). 

 Very similar to crassella, but structurally distinct in the palpi, especially by the 

 elonf'ate basal joint and resulting elbow, the large whitish interior hairtuft, and 

 the dark fuscous costal streak of hind wings, of which the termen is less oblique 

 on upper portion and therefore more prominently bowed ; the reduced yellow 

 mark of forewings is found also sometimes in crassella, but is there exceptional. 



Timyra parochra, n. sp. 



^. 23-27 mm. Head ochreous. Palpi dark purplish-fuscous, internally 

 deep ochreous-yellow, second joint thickened with scales, above rough-scaled, 

 terminal joint shorter than second, thickened with scales, tolerably pointed. 

 Antennai ochreous faintly ringed with fuscous, basal joint without tuft. 

 Thorax purplish-fuscous, more or less mixed with pale ochreous. Abdomen 

 pale ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with ochreous-yellowish, posterior 

 tibia) orange-suffused on basal half, partially rough-scaled, with large 

 curled median purplish-fuscous tuft above, posterior tarsi somewhat 

 rough-scaled above. Forewings elongate, rather narrowed towards base, costa 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 3, 4, 5 

 approximated, 7 to termen ; deep yellow-ochrcous or browuish-ocLrcous, irro- 



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