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fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, suffused with ochreous towards base. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen abruptly and rather 

 deeply excavated beneath apex, rounded beneath ; white ; anterior half of 

 costa strigulated with blackish ; dorsal half of wing strigulalcd with grey 

 mixed with blackish, with subtriangular erect dark blotches more or less mixed 

 with ochreous at | and ^ ; costal area on posterior half suffused with light 

 purple-grey, with five yellow-ochreous blackish-edged oblique wedge-shaped 

 marks from costa separated by white costal spaces, second elongated to beneath 

 fourth ; a longitudinal streak of dark fuscous suflEusion in disc posteriorly ; apex 

 cf wing forming a yellow-ochreous spot, bisected by a longitudinal white 

 blackish-edged dash ; a black dot edged above by a yellow-ochreous mark on 

 termen slightly above middle, and another yellow-ochreous mark lower down : 

 cilia whitish, su Ffused with pale fuscous except towards base, above apex white 

 with dark fuscous median and apical lines. Hiudwings in $ tawny-fuscous, 

 in 9 rather dark fuscous ; cilia light fuscous, with darker sabbasal liu^. 

 Two specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in June (Poie)^ 

 Metrernis, n.g. 



Head loosely haired ; tongue apparoully absent. Labial palpi moderate, 

 curved, ascending, second joint with rough projecting tuft of scales beneath, 

 terminal joint rather shorter than second, acute. Antennte |, in ^ rather 

 thick, simple. Posterior tibife loosely haired above. Forewings with 2 from 

 before j, 3 and 4 long-stalked from angle, 5 straight, 7 absent, 8 and 9 

 stalked, 10 closely approximated to 8 towards base, 11 from |. Uindwings 1, 

 elongate-trapezoidal, cilia 1 ; 3 and 4 stalked, 

 ^,^ 3Ietreniis ochroUna, n, sp. 



/. ^jj^ - $ 9, 12-13 mm. Heal brown, lower part of face and back of crown white. 



Palpi white, towards base pale fuscous, terminal joint with a fuscous line. Thorax 

 white, shoulders fuscous-tinged. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous Forewings 

 elongate, costa moderately arched towards base, thence nearly straight, apex 

 round-pointed, termen concave beneath apex, thence obliquely rounded ; white, 

 ochreous-tinged except towards costa anteriorly ; dorsal half more or less 

 strigulated with fuscous, sometimes partly suffused with pale greyish, with two 

 indistinct dorsal blotches formed of suffused dark fuscous strigas, first before 

 middle, second broader, about \, with a whitish-ochreous mark above its upper 

 anterior angle ; five golden-brown oblique marks on posterior half of costa, first 

 two giving rise to pale ochreous-yellowish lines which run near costa almost to 

 apex, fifth apical, separated beneath by a white dash from a pale ochreous-yellow 

 subapical dash which extends into cilia:; an indistinct pale yellowish longitu- 

 dinal line in disc posteriorly ; a blackish dot on middle of termen, edged above 

 with pale yellowish : cilia whitish, with two or three indistinct grey bars on 

 basal half, on upper half of termen fuscous-tinged posteriorly, above apex white 

 with golden-brown subbasal and ochreous apical lines. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 pale greyish-ochreous, with two faint grey shades, darker round apex. 

 Throe specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon (Alston, Pole). 



