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and three very inwardly oblique fascioc (thus usually leaving about eleven 

 spots of ground colour) ; in 9 with similar markings, but the whole almost 

 obscured by general crimson suffusion of ground colour, except that the dorsal 

 and subdorsal spots are lighter or sometimes clear yellow : cilia crimson. Hind- 

 wings crimson, thinly scaled anteriorly ; cilia crimson. 



Nine specimens (.') $,4: $), Maskcliya, Ceylon, in January, March, May, 

 August, and October (de Mowbray, Pole). Smaller and narrower-winged than 

 the other two species. 

 j,^^^^^^ ^ Comocritis pieria, n. sp. 



ffCt^v'**^^ $ 5- 1-1-iy mm. Hoad, palpi, and antennas white. Thorax white, with 



PT sitsL dll\ ^ ^""^^ dorsal patch and posterior spot. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, apex 

 white^ Posterior tibiae clothed with long fine hairs. Forewings elongate, costa 

 Hently arched, apex and terraen evenly rounded ; 7 to apex ; white ; a moderate 

 very undefined basal fascia of blue-grey suffusion ; a large yellow-ochreoua 

 patch occupying posterior f of wing except a white marginal streak, edged 

 with blue-grey and finely streaked with blue-grey on all veins ; cilia white, 

 with a blackish-grey basal line round apex and termen, Hindwings light grey ; 

 cilia \, white, with a faint greyish basal line. 



Eleven specimens, all bred, Neboda, Ceylon, in March and April (Green). 

 Larva rather flat, at first reddish, afterwards creamy-white ; constructs flat 

 canopies and galleries of fine silk and comminuted fragments of bark on stems 

 of H'evea bras liemii '^Para rubber) ; feeds on lichens and algfe growing on stem ; 

 when pupating, a flattened cocoon or case, with valvular opening, is formed 

 in a shallow depression beneath the silken canopy (Creen). From specimens 

 sent, however, I should suppose that the bark itself is freely used as food. A 

 very elegant insect, allied nearly to C. ohjmpia, but very much tmaller. 



Episiomolis, n.g. 



Head with appressed scales; tongue developed. Antennae f, in ^ shortly 

 ciliated, basal joint short, without pecten. Labial palpi moderately long, second 

 joint porrected, with long projecting triangular apical tuft of scales beneath, 

 terminal joint longer than second, erect, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. 

 Posterior tibia) loosely haired above, Forewings with 1 bifurcate, 2 from 

 angle, very short, 3"G tolerably parallel, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from before 

 middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia almost 1 ; 2 remote, 3 and 4 short- 

 stalked, 5 parallel, G absent. 



Allied to Cerosioma, of which it is a development. 



Epistoinotis penessa, n. sp. 

 ^00^3 ^ ^9. 14-20 mm. Head, palpi, antennas, and thorax fuscous mixed with 



white. Abdomen grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; brownish-ochreous or 

 fuscous, irrorated with white ; stigmata dark fuscous, suffused, discal more or 

 less distinct, plical linear, indistinct, very obliquely beyond first discal cilia whi- 

 tish, irrorated with brownish or fuscous. Hindwings and cilia fuscous-whitish. 



Twenty-two specimens. Puttalam, Ceylon, from August to January (Pole). 

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