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or less broadly streaked with leaden -grey between veins, variable in extent : 

 cilia pale ochreous-ycllowiah. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 stalket}, 

 6 to termen ; in $ whitish -ochreous, costa suffused with grey, with submedian 

 groove and expansible pencil of long whitish-ochreous hairs from base lying 

 beneath it ; in $ grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in June, from September to November, and in January j 

 six specimens (Pole, de Mowbray). 



Tingentera epliestris, n. sp. 



$. 16 — 18mm. Head, palpi, and antennae ochreous-yellow, face paler; 

 second joint of palpi dilated with rough scales towards apex above and beneathj 

 with a dark grey spot internally, terminal joint very short, projecting. 

 Thorax ochreous-yellow spotted with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochieous 

 tinged with grey. Legs yellowish, spotted with dark grey, posterior tibiae 

 above with expansible yellow median and apical scales tipped with black. 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, 

 termen very obliquely rounded ; 4 and 5 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa ; 

 orange ; a blackish dot on bavSe of costa ; a fascia near base composed of two 

 irregular dark fuscous lines mixed with leaden-metallic coincident at extremities -; 

 a similar irregular transverse line at \, closely followed by a moderate dark 

 fuscous fascia, narrowed on costa and dilated on dorsum ; a round dark fuscous 

 dot mixed with leaden-metallic in middle of disc ; a moderate inwards-curved 

 fascia of fuscous suffusion from about f of costa to tornus, marked with a 

 strongly inwards-oblique leaden-metallic streak from costa, a dot below middle^ 

 and a longitudinal mark on tornus ; three similar longitudinal leaden-metallic 

 marks on termen, and one on costa before apex, more or less surrounded with 

 fuscous suffusion : cilia fuscous, basal half orange except towards tornus* 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 stalked, 6 to termen ; rather dark 

 grey ; a small whitish-ochreous patch at tornus, above which is a hyaline groove 

 containing a pencil of whitish-ochreous hairs ; cilia grey*. 

 Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February ; two specimens (Pole). 



Tingentera molyhdantha, n. sp, 



$. 14 mm. Head dark bronzy-fuscous, face and side tufts yellowish-tinged. 

 Palpi ochreous-yellowish mixed withdarkgrey, second joint broadly dilated with 

 long projecting ochreous-yellow scales beneath, terminal joint minute, concealed. 

 Antennae dark fuscous, basal joint with slight anterior scale-projection* 

 Thorax dark bronzy-fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Legs dark fuscous, ringed 

 with ochreous-yellowish, all femora suffused with metallic grey, posterior tibia) 

 with bright leaden-metallic bands before and beyond middle, with expanded 

 scales at origin of spurs. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 2 remote, 3 and 4 

 connate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa ; dark fuscous sprinkled with black, with 

 scattered ochreous hair-scales ; thick bluish-leaden-metallic subcostal and 

 nai-rower submedian streaks from base to ^ ; an almost straight double 

 antcraedian fascia, first half narrow, ycllow-ochrcous, edged posteriorly with 



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