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suffused with fuscous. Legs orange-yellow banded with dark fuscous, 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi above with rough black scales and longer scattered 

 pale yellowish haii-s with black tips, tibiae with large median tuft of similar 

 hairs. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termcn 

 slightly rounded, oblique ; 7 to termen ; in $ ochreous-orange, in $ pale 

 ochreous-yellowish streaked with orange ; a costal streak from base to |, and 

 a aeries of well-marked interneural streaks, not reaching costa posteriorly or 

 torraen, blackish or dark fuscous, interrupted by a somewhat curved obliqu© 

 double median fascia, of which first half is ochreous-yellow, paler in $ , and 

 second deep ochreous-orange sufEusedly edged with dark fuscous ; a blackish 

 line along posterior part of costa and termen : cilia pale whitish- ochreous, 

 basal half orange, with a blackish postmedian line becoming double towards 

 tornus, Hindwings with 3 in $ absent, 6 to termen ; dark fuscous ; in $ an 

 ochreous-yellow streak from base along a subdorsal groove enclosing a pencil 

 of long ochreous- whitish hairs, posteriorly dilated into a broad patch 

 extending all along termen but not quite reaching it, in which is a curved line 

 of appressed hairs ; cilia ochreous-whitish, more yellowish towards base, with 

 two dark fuscous shades. 



Palni Hills and Cuddapah ; three specimens (Campbell). 



Timyra toxastis, n. sp. 



9.17 — 20 mm. Head fuscous, face and side-tufts ochreous-whitish. Palpi 

 ochreous-whitish, anterior edge and terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennai 

 fuscous-whitish, more or less suffused with fuscous and ringed with dark 

 fuscous. Thorax bronzy-fuscous, with slender whitish stripe on each side of 

 back. Abdomen light ochreous-yellowish. Legs ochreous-yellowish longi- 

 tudinally streaked with black edged with whitish, posterior tibite with large 

 median tuft of long curved whitish and black hairs. Forewings elongate, 

 narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather 

 oblique ; 7 to termen ; brown sprinkled with dark fuscous, narrow orange 

 subcostal and submedian streaks from base, not reaching middle ; a slender 

 curved rather oblique white median fascia ; veins on posterior third of wing 

 marked with irregular white streaks ; a slender white streak along posterior 

 part of costa and termen : cilia white, basal half yellowish-tinged, limited by a 

 blackish line, tips fuscous. Hindwings with vein 6 to termen ; grey; cilia grey- 

 whitish, base yellowish-tinged, with a subbasal fuscous line. 



N. Coorg (3,500 feet), in June and November ; three specimens (Newcome).. 



Timyra toreutis, n. sp. 



$. 17 — 20 mm. Head dark bronzy-fuscous, face suffused with ochreous- 

 whitish. Palpi simple, sickle-shaped, whitish-yellow, anterior and posterior 

 edges blackish. Antennae pale yellowish anteriorly suffused with dark fuscous 

 basal joint with yellowish anterior tuft mixed with dark fuscous. Thorax 

 dark bronzy-fuscous, with a whitish line on each side of back, and a yellow 

 mark on each side of posterior extremity. Abdomen ochreous-yellowish, base 

 of segments suffused with dark fuscous. Legs yellowish, banded with 



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