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Palpi curved, ascending, second joint dilated with rather rough scales, terminal 

 joint rather short, obtuse. Thorax crested. Forewings with 3 and 4 stalked 

 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to termen. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked, 5 rather 

 approximated, 6 and 7 stalked. 

 DicelUtis nigriiula, n. sp. 



$. 15-17 mm. Head dark fuscous. Palpi grey. Thorax pale brownish- 

 ochreous, crest blackish-fuscous. Abdomen light grey. Forewings suboblong, 

 costa anteriorly moderately, posteriorly gently arched, apex obtuse, termen sub- 

 sinuate, somewhat oblique ; pale yeliowish-ochreous, sufPusedly strigulated with 

 light brownish ; a dark fuscous spot on dorsum at | ; central fascia brownish, ill- 



define d except on cos tal edge where it is dark fuscous and moderately broad 



interrupted above middle, moderately broad beneath and dilated towards dorsum ; 

 costal patch and a triangular spot towards termen above tornus dark fuscous 

 mixed with black and leaden-grey : cilia pale yellowish-ochreous. Hindwings 

 grey ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous with a grey shade. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet, in Aueust and October (Newcome) ; two specimens. 

 Epaqoge invalidana, Walk, (Tortrix invalidana. Walk., XXVIII, 327.) 

 $ $. 15-19 mm. Head and thorax brownish-ochreous. Palpi moderate, 

 porrected, ochreous-whitish irrorated with fuscous. Abdomen ochreous- whitish, 

 sometimes sprinkled with grey, Forewings suboblong, costa anteriorly strongly 

 arched, posteriorly almost straight, apex obtuse, termen subsinuate, nearly 

 vertical ; in $ brownish or pale brownish-ochreous strigulated with fuscous, in 

 $ whitish-ochreous, usually more or less tinged or suffused with pale brownish, 

 sometimes sprinkled with brown dots, usually with a few black specks, in one 

 specimen sufEusedly irrorated with fuscous and dark slaty-fuscous ; markings in 

 ^ rather dark fuscous, in $ ochreous-brownish or fuscous, variable and ill- 

 defined, central fascia broad, narrowed on costal third, but in $ usually 

 interrupted or broadly obsolete in disc, costal patch flattened-triangular, these 

 sometimes represented in $ by a cloudy dark suffusion extending along dorsum 

 and posterior | of costa ; a more or less developed row of small black almost 

 marginal dots before termen : cilia whitish-ochreous, tips suffused with fuscous 

 or dark fuscous except on apex and tornus. Hindwings ochreous-whitish, more 

 ochreous-tinged towards apex, towards dorsum and lower half of termen suffused 

 with light grey ; several fuscous strigulas or small spots towards apex ; cilia 

 whitish-yellowish, on lower half of termen or in $ throughout with a grey shade. 

 Newera Eliya, Maskeliya, Madulsima, Kandy, Ceylon (Pole, Green, Alston, 

 Vaughan) ; Coorg (Newcome) ; Khasis ; practically throughout the year ; twenty 

 specimens. Its variability in tint and marking make it rather a puzzling species 

 but the forms with suffused costal and dorsal streaks are characteristic. 

 Epago(je psammocyma, n. sp. 



$. 22 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen whitish-ochreous. Palpi rather 

 long, obliquely porrected, whitish-ochreous, externally sprinkled with fuscous. 

 Forewings suboblong, costa anteriorly strongly arched, posteriorly nearly 

 straight, apex obtuse, termen sinuate, little oblique ; whitish-ochreous, strigulated 



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