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^. 9 ram. Head dark shining bronze, face lighter, with pale golden-metallic 

 lines above eyes. Palpi dark fuacous, terminal joint suflused with whitish 

 except towards base. Antenna) dark fuscous, with two or three scattered 

 whitish rings towards apex (one antenna has some broad whitish suflusion 

 below middle, perhaps an abnormality, as the other does not show it). Thorax 

 dark shining bronze (defaced). Abdomen dark fuscous, on sides bright brassy- 

 nietallic. Posterior tibite blackish, with silvery-white median, subapical, and 

 apical rings. Forewings very narrowly lanceolate, apex narrowly long-pro- 

 duced, caudate ; blackish ; two broad partially conBuent golden-metallic longi- 

 tudinal streaks occupying nearly all basal area, upper extending to near ^, 

 lower to I ; a vertical violet-golden-metallic fascia slightly before middle, 

 near beyond which is a subtriangnlar orange patch on costa ; an erect traus- 

 verse violet-golden-metallic spot on dorsum at |, whence proceeds a golden- 

 metallic sinuate line to apex ; a golden-metallic costal streak extending from 

 close beyond orange patch half way to apex : cilia bronzy-blackish. Hindwings 

 and cilia dark fuscous. 



Hakgala, Ceylon, in April (Green) ; one specimen. 

 Cosmopteryx cyclopia, n. sp. 



^. 8 mm. Head dark shining bronze, crown with three fine white lines, 

 face light bronze. Palpi white lined with black. Antennae blackish, dotted 

 and towards base lined with white, four apical joints white, then five blackish, 

 one white, one blackish, one white. Thorax dark bronzy-fuscous, with three 

 fine silvery-white lines. Abdomen rather dark bronzy-fuscous, apex whitish- 

 ochreous. Posterior tibi^ blackish, with silvery-white median and apical rings, 

 and a silvery-metallic ring between these. Forewings very narrowly lanceo- 

 late, somewhat wider near base, apex slenderly long-produced, caudate ; 

 blackish ; dorsal edge silvery-white towards base ; three fine silvery lines 

 before |, subcostal longest but not nearly reaching base, median intermediate 

 in length, subdorsal very short, posterior extremities of all three equidistant 

 from base ; a broad dull fuscous-orange postmedian band, suffused with darker 

 fuscous on costa and dorsum, anteriorly margined by a vertical violet- golden- 

 metallic fascia, and posteriorly by two vertical-transverse violet-golden-metallic 

 spots edged anteriorly by a few black scales, lower wholly anterior and not 

 meeting upper if produced, the fuscous-orange colour projecting beneath but 

 not beyond upper ; a fine silvery-metallic dash midway between this and apex, 

 and a short shining white line in apical cilia marked also on under surface : 

 ciha otherwise dark fuscous, with a white costal spot on posterior margin of 

 band. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet, in February (Newcome) ; one specimen. This is the 

 species which seems to approach nearest to asiatica Stt., from which however 

 it is separated by the peculiar fuscous-orange band, and the metallic anteapical 

 line not running into the apex ; the arrangement of the mctaUic lines in the 

 basal area is also characteristic. 



