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arched, bent at \, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, oblique ; light brownish 

 coarsely and irregularly strigulated with black ; based | more or less wholly 

 suffused with light greenish, mixed with olive-green, edge of basal patch 

 indicated by a black striga ; median area towards costa and dorsum more or 

 less suffused with slaty-purplish ; posterior area transversely streaked with 

 dark ferruginous-brown : cilia light brownish suffusedly irrorated with blackish. 

 Hindwings fuscous or rather dark fuscous, sometimes ochreous-tinged ; cilia 

 light fuscous or ochreous-fuscous, 



Patipola and Maskeliya, Ceylon (Green, Pole, Alston) ; Khasis ; in February, 

 and from May to September, nine specimens. 



Oxygrapha curiosa, n, sp. l- 



$. 17 mm. Head pale grey sprinkled with darker and whitish. Palpi dark 

 grey irrorated with whitish. Thorax pale grey mixed with black, shoulders 

 brown. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings moderate, rather dilated posteriorly, 

 costa strongly arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, oblique ; rather dark 

 violet-grey, partially brownish-tinged and sprinkled with whitish, with some 

 irregularly arranged black raised scales ; several irregular black striga from 

 costa about ^, and in disc in middle and at f ; large tufts of scales towards 

 dorsum before and beyond middle ; an irregular prismatic purple-blue blotch 

 beneath disc at f ; an 8-shaped tornal spot outlined with black, upper half filled 

 with brownish and lower with white ; an evenly broad ferruginous-brown 

 streak from beyond | of costa to below middle of termen, edged with some 

 black scales ; a ferruginous-brown streak along apical part of costa, posteriorly 

 triangularly dilated and edged on termen with blackish : cilia pale brownish with 

 dark brown antemedian shade, and posterior dark fuscous patches at apex 

 middle, and tornus. Hindwings dark grey, lighter towards base : cjlia whitish- 

 grey, with fuscous subbasal shade. 



Khasis, in October ; one specimen. 



Oxygrapha porpacias, n. sp. ^ 



$^. 16-20 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi whitish, irrorated with _fif.*. 

 grey and black except towards base. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, -^'/O^fM** ,- . »•; 

 rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen sinuate, rather ,<« C rt/^/J 



oblique; ochreous- whitish, finely and suffusedly irrorated with grey, and L ** " '' \ 

 strigulated with brown and dark grey, with a few black scales ; three black dots '^"' ' '^^^' ^ 



longitudinally placed just above tornus, first usually minute, second elongate, 

 third terminal : cilia whitish with rows of fuscous points, basal half with 

 indistinct fuscous bars tipped with dark fuscous, a tornal patch mixed with dark 

 grey and blackish. Hindwings rather dark fuscous, darker posteriorly ; cilia 

 rather dark fuscous. 



Puttalam, Muskeliya, Peradeniya, and Gampola, Ceylon (Pole, Green, Alstoon ; 

 Muoklek, Siam ; in June and from October to February, nine specimens. 



XYLORYCTIDiE. 



Metathrinca, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales, sidetufts spreading ; ocelli present ; tongue 

 developed. Antennoc f, in $ bipectinated, apex simple. Labial palpi long 



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