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blackish sprinkled with white, posterior tibi.e with large n^^dian tuft of 

 lon.^ curved purplish-fuscous and ochreouB-yellow scales tipped with black- 

 Foi^wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, tern^en shghtly 

 rounded, oblique ; 7 to apex. 9 out of 7 ; dark fuscous; two or three short 

 whitish streaks from base; transverse lines of white irrovation at , and, 

 partly marked with orange ; three orange longitudinal streaks ft;om about 

 middle to I. third furcate posteriorly, separated by streaks of purphsh-leaden 

 suffusion ; veins 3, 4, and 7-10 marked more or less completely with white 

 reaks, 5 and 6 with orange streaks ; a short white screak along costa near 

 apex: dlia fuscous-whitish, basal third pale yellowish limited by a black line, 

 with two postmedian dark fuscous lines. Hindwings with 3 absent o 



termen • dark fuscous , a subdorsal groove enclosing a pencil of whitish- 

 ochreou's hairs ; cilia rather dark fuscous, base pale yellowish. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, from August to October ; four specimens (Alston). Very 

 like n^endicMa, but differing by the smaller size, white streaks from base 

 (iu r,^end^cella orange), fewer and longer orange postmedian streaks more 

 numerous white and fewer orange lines on veins posteriorly, and wholly dark 



fuscous hindwings. 



Tmym seJmaims, n. sp. 



Q 18-19 mm. Head and thorax bronzy-fuscous. Palpi whitish tinged 

 with" fuscous, anterior, edge dark fuscous. Antennae white ringed ^ith dark 

 fuscous Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs fuscous ringed with yellowish and 

 whitish' posterior tibia, with very long rough whitish hairs, and very large 

 median tuft of curved yellowish and whitish hairs tipped with black and 

 silvery-metallic, and smaller apical yellowish tuft tipped with grey and v.olet- 

 whitish basal joint of tarsi above with rough yellowish scales tipped with grey 

 and violet-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen shghtly rounded, oblique ; 7 to just below apex ^ V-^f^- 

 fuscous sprinkled with blackish ; median third obscurely streaked with whitish. 

 rve";;a narrow irregular orange transverse fascia from | of costa to of 

 dorsum • a triangular spot of whitish suffusion on costa about |. and an 

 irreguhu suffused whitish streak immediately before termen ; apical and 

 terminal edge suffused with dark fuscous: cilia gvey-whitish, basal third pale 

 yellowish limited by a fuscous line. Hindwings with 6 to termen ; grey ; cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, more yellowish towards base. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in August and October ; two specimens (Alston). 



T/ntvra sphaeristis, n. sp. i, • v ^ ^ 



To 16-n mn,. Head aud thorax shining light oohieons-yenow.3h,centre 

 of f,„wn fuscons. Palpi yellowish, alike in both sexes. Antennae pale yellowish 

 Abdom- whitish^ochreons. segments dorsally suffused w h uscous Leg, 

 ItXechveous, anterior and middle tibl. yellowish withblack.sh subap.cal 

 Tporposterior t,bi. with expansible tufts of yellowish scales at „,ddle ad 

 Tpex 'spotted w,th blackhh at base. Forew.ngs elongate, narrow, costa goni^ 

 arched apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 7 to termen , 



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