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dark fuscous, second half broader, bright bluish-leaden-mctallic ; some irregular 

 leaden-metallic spots in disc about | and round posterior third of costa and 

 termen, round apex confluent into a streak : cilia rather dark fuscous, towards 

 base mixed with ochreous. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 stalked, 

 ■6 to tormen ; dark fuscous ; a short subdorsal groove from base, containing aa 

 expansible pencil of whitish -ochreous hairs ; cilia rather dark fuscous, 



Pattipola (6,200 feet"), Ceylon, in September ; one specimen (Fletcher). 



Thigentera meryntis, ix, sp. 



^9. 17 — 19 mm. Head light yellowish, crown suffused with prismatic 

 brouzy-fuscous except on sides. Palpi alike in both sexes, ochreous-yellow, an- 

 terior edge of terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennaj yellowish, ringed and on 

 apical hiilf suffused with fuscous, in ^ above basal joint with a short streak of 

 shining fuscous inwardly projecting scales above. Thorax shining bronzy-fuscous. 

 Abdomen fuscous, apex suffused with ochreous-yellow. Legs ochreous-yellow 

 foanded with dark fuscous, posterior tibise clothed with fine loose hairs.- 

 Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 extremely obliquely rounded ; 2 remote, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen ; 

 bronzy-fuscous with bluish-leaden reflections ; basal third ii'regularly streaked 

 longitudinally with yellowish, with d^ark shining purplish-fuscous costal and 

 purple-blackish subcostal streaks, and lines of blackish scales between the 

 yellowish streaks ; a slender oblique pale yellowish median fascia, yellower 

 posteriorly ; posterior half of wing streaked with ocbreous-yellowish on veins, 

 interspaces shining leaden-metallic : cilia pale yellowish, outer half light shining 

 bronzy-fuscous. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 stalked, G to 

 termen ; grey, in ^ broadly suffused with whitish-ochreous-yellowish in disc, 

 with submedian groove containing expansible pencU of long pale yellowish 

 hairs ; cilia whitish-ochreous-yellowish. 



Nilgiri Hills (6,000 feet), in May ; nine specimens (Andrewes). 



Autosticha, Meyr. 



I have recognised that this genus, based on a Hawaiian species, is identical 

 V!yi\\ Eiricama, Meyr, and the latter name is therefore superseded. I have "^"JyiVll, Mc 

 described three species from Ceylon, and if I have correctly identified Gelecliki 

 affixella, Walk,, 632, and Geleehia strenuella, Walk., 632, they also belong to this 

 genus, but the condition of the original types leaves some uncertainty. I now 

 add eleven more ; but it seems desirable to repeat that considerable care is 

 requisite in identifying the more obscure and similar species. The larva) of 

 several are known, and all feed in the same way in galleries on lichens.. 



Autosticha aureolata, n. sp. 



$. 14 — 15 mm. Head orange, centre of crown suffused with fuscous. Palpi, 

 orange-yellowish, anterior edge suffused with dark fuscous throughout. An- 

 tennae dark fuscous, with whorls of long cilia (3). Thorax purplish-fuscous 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, sides of posterior extremity yellowish. Abdomen 

 yellowish- fuscous, segmental margins darker fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, oblique ; purphsh-fuscoua 



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