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long hairs. Forewings with lb furcate, 2 from towards angle, 7 to apex or 

 ■Oermen, 8 stalked with 7 or absent, 11 from before middle. Hiudwings 1,. 

 elongate-ovate, cilia 3 — 1 ; 2—7 tolerably parallel. 



Type -S. camerata. Allied to Ilelusma, from which it differs essentially by 

 the antennae not being pectinated in ^. 



Sapheneutis camera/a, n, sp. 



^. 12-15 mm., $ 21-23 mm. Head, paljii, antennse, thorax, and abdomen 

 pale whitish-ochreons ; basal haM of palpi mixed with blackish ; shoulders 

 with a blackish-fuscous spot. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded • 8 absent ; pale whitish- 

 ochreons ; markings rather dark fuscous edged with black ; an irregular fascia 

 near base, not black-edged anteriorly ; an irregular fascia before middle, ante- 

 rior edge concave, posterior angularly prominent in middle ; a subquadrate 

 spot on costa about f , and narrow sometimes nearly obsolete spot on tornus 

 opposite it ; sometimes two undefined dots on costa and termen near apex ; 

 cilia pale whitish-ochreous. Hindwings in ^ ochreous-whitish more or less 

 tinged with grey, in 9 pale grey ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; N. Coorg (Newcome) ; in April, May, October, 

 and November, nine specimens. 



Saphc7ieutis marmarurga, n. sp. 



(J 9. 15-20 mm. Head ochreous-yellow. Palpi fuscous, towards apex pale 

 yellowish. Antennae pale ochreous, ciliations in ^ 1. Thorax light purplish- 

 bronzy, mixed with blackish and sometimes with yellow-ochreous with posterior 

 crest. Abdomen whitish-ochreous more or less suffused with grey. Forewinga 

 elongate, posteriorly rather dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse,, 

 termen straight, oblique ; 7 and 8 long-stalked, 9 sometimes out of 7 near base ; 

 white, in ^ sprinkled with oohreous, especially posteriorly, and more or less 

 sprinkled with blackish, in 9 much more largely suffused and strigulated with 

 oohreou^-fuseous or purplish-fusccvus and irrorated with blackish, so as to ob- 

 scure ground colour except on a fascia following basal patch and dilated toward* 

 costa ; markings slaty-purplish or purplish-fuscous irrorated with black, viz., a 

 basal patch with outer edge running from ^ of costa to | of dorsum, slightly 

 curved, and a transverse or subtriangular blotch on costa somewhat beyond 

 middle, reaching half across wing: cilia fuscous sprinkled with blackish. 

 Hindwings in $ pale grey, brassy-tinged, in 9 gi'ey ; cilia oohreous-whitish 

 more or less tinged with grey, usually with grey subbasal line, 



Maskeliya, Ctylon, iu February, March, and Jime ; sixteen specimens (Pole). 



Sapheneutis metaeentra, n, sp. 



$. 14-18 mm., 9 24-26 mm. Bead rather dark fuscous. Palpi ascending, 

 dark fuscous, apex of second and terminal joints light greyish-ochreous. 

 Antenngepale greyish-ochreous. Thorax fuscous-whiti&h, anteriorly narrowly 

 suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Forewings 

 elongate-oblong, costa moderately arched towards extremities, apex rounded, 

 termen obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; very pale greyish-ochreotss, 

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