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Six specimens, Ma.skeliya and Puttalam, Ceylon, in March, May, October 

 and November (Pole). 



Prays jjeperitis, n. sp, 



^ 9. S-14 mm. Head, palpi, ^nd thorax pale grey, more or less iljixed witbt 

 dark fuscous. Antennye dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey, apex pale greyish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex roqnd- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; whitish, irrorated 

 and sometimes suffused with grey, and coarsely strigulated more or less closely 

 throughout -^ith dark fuscous or blackish : cilia grey, HindAvings rather 

 thinly scaled, grey, becoming dark fuscous towards apex ; cilia grey. Fore- 

 wings beneath irregularly s-treaked or spfttted with raised black scales towards 

 base. 



Seven specirrfens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from March to May, and in October and 

 November (Pbfe). 



GlypTiipteriix argyromis, n. sp. 



^9. 6-7 mm. Head and thorax shining greyish-bronze. Palpi with six 

 whorls of black white-tipped scates. Antenna3 dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, 

 beneath white. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round- pointed, 

 termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; 7 and 8 separate ; shining golden-bronze ; basal 

 % occupied by a shining bluish-silvery-whitish patch, followed on dorsal half by 

 some blackish suffusion ; five bluish -silvery black-edged streaks from posterior, 

 half of costa, and two from dorsum towards tornus, nearly or quite uniting 

 with first two costal streaks, first resulting fascia angulated, second slightly 

 curved ; a bluish-silvery dot on tornus, and one on termen beneath apex : cilia 

 grey, with blackish basal and postmedian shades, indented beneath apex, 

 on costal streaks spotted with white. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia 

 grey. 



Ten specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from February to April (.Pole, de Mow- 

 bray.) The bfue-whitish basal patch is a unique distingui.shing character. 



TlNEID^. 



Opostega euryntis, n. sp- 



9. 7 mm, Head, palpi and thorax white. Antenna) ochreous-whitish', 

 basal joint white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings lanceolate ; white ; 

 a broad dark fuscous transverse median band occupying more than ^ of wing, 

 somewhat broadest on dorsum : cilia white. Hindwings and cilia pale- 

 grey. 



One specimen, Coorg (3,500 feet), in June (Newcome), 



Opostega epoctofa, n. sp. 



$ 9- 6-7 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi and abdomen whitish-och- 

 reous. Antennre whitish-ochreous, basal joint white. Forewings lanceolate ; 

 white ; a dark grey dot on dorsum before middle of wing, sometimes faint ; 

 a more or less defined dark fuscous line along apical fourth of costa : cilia 

 ©chreouH-whitish. tinged with fuscous round apex, with two oblique blackish- 

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