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pointed, tcrmen extremely obliquely rounded ; bright shining purple-coppery- 

 bronze ; a suffused orange-yellow patch extending along dorsum from \ to f. 

 Harrowed to extremities, not reaching half across wing ; two parallel thick 

 transverse ridges of raised scales about 5: cilia light shining yellowish, more 

 or less mixed with bronzy and pale purplish towards base. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous, thinly scaled in disc ; cilia rather dark fuscous. 



Twelve specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, from September to November (Pole). 

 Narthecoceros, n.g. 



Head with appressed scales ; tongue developed. Antennae 1, thick, flatly com- 

 pressed throughout, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labinl palpi long, 

 curved, ascending, second joint thickened with scales, roughly expanded towards 

 apex above and beneath, terminal joint shorter than second, acute. Posterior 

 tibiae rough-haired above. Forewings with 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to termen. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, apex round-pointed, termen faintly 

 sinuate, cilia 1 ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 parallel, 6 and 7 long-stalked. 



Type N. plat'!/conta,MejT. Having now obtained a second allied species, I 



consider the characters warrant generic separation from Macrotona, from 



which the genus is distinguished by the flatly-compressed antennas, second joint 



of palpi roughened above towards apex, and terminal joint shorter than second. 



Narthecoceros xylodes, n sp. 



^. 20-21 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ochreous sprinkled with 

 fuscous. Palpi pale brownish -ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous. Antenrss 

 whitish-ochreous tinged with fuscous, with two narrow dark fuscous subapical 

 bands. Abdomen light ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen slightly sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; 

 whitish-ochreous, irrorated with fuscous ; a moderate dark fuscous suffusion 

 along costa from before middle to apex, and dorsal half posteriorly more or 

 less suffused with dark fuscous irroration, space between these Fcmctirrca 

 forming an undefined pale streak ; stigmata undefined, dark fuscous, plical very 

 obliquely before first discal ; undefined cloudy dark fuscous dots along posterior 

 part of costa and termen : cilia fuscous with rows of ochreous-whitish points, 

 on termen with whitish-ochreous basal shade. Hindwings rather dark 

 fuscous ; cilia as in forewings, but lighter and more yellowish-tinged towards 

 tornus. 

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



, J Macroto7ia parana,n. sp. 



Ijj3^ I ^, 23-2 5 mm. Head, antennas, thorax, and abdomen light brownish-ochrcous. 



LtjuaJj^ Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint 



\i, . tinged with fuscous externally. P'orewings elongate, narrowed towards base, 



i(M\f^^ costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, rather oblique ; 7 to apex, 9 



^ . separate ; light brownish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled with pale brownish ard 



a few black scales ; a minute black subcostal dot near base ; discal stigmata 



imall, cloudy, dark brown, first resting on a transverse cloudy purple-fuscous 



mark beneath it, between first and second a cloudy fuscous dot in disc rati «r 



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