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Gampola, Puttalam, and Maskeliya, Ceylon, in October, November and Feb- 

 ruaiy (Pole, Green) ; Palni Hills, 6,000 feet (Campbell) ; five specimens. This 

 species has the termen of forewings more distinctly sinuate than any other 

 described, but only moderately oblique. 

 Bactra leucogama, n, sp. 



■ $ ^. 13-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous ; palpi 2„ Abdo- 

 men ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, hardly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen almost straight, oblique ; whitish-ochreous, 

 mixed with silvery-metallic suffusion, which tends to form irregular transverse 

 strigse ; costa marked with short deep ochreous strigulse irrorated with black- 

 ish, and about seven longer deep ochreous strigulse ; deep ochreous markings 

 as follows, mz., a spot on suffusion in disc towards base, a transverse spot in 

 disc at ^, an irregular or interrupted fascia on dorsal f beyond middle, com- 

 bined in middle with an irregular sinuate streak running to apex, an oblique 

 triangular pra3tornal spot, and a slender streak along termen ; dorsum with 

 minute dots of blackish irroration : cilia whitish-ochreous mixed with deeper 

 ochreous. Hindwings in $ pale grey, in $ whitish ; cilia whitish in $ with 

 faint grey subbasal line. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in February and August (Pole) ; four specimens. Recog- 

 nisable by the pale ochreous colouring, distinct deeper ochreous markings, 

 termen of forewings not sinuate, and white hindwings of 9 (in ,J paler grey 

 than usual) ; but I have another apparently distinct undesciibed species, in 

 which the 9 has ako white hindwings. 

 Bactra honei^ta , n. sp. 



$ 9- 14-16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi 2, whitish, with broad 

 median fuscous band. Thorax pale ochreous. Abdomen greyish. Forewings 

 elongate, hardly dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex tolerably 

 pointed, termen rather sinuate, oblique ; pale ochreous, more or less tinged 

 with ferruginous-brownish, especially towards disc beyond middle, with a few 

 scattered dark fuscous scales ; costa marked with long oblique ochreous-whitish 

 strigulae more or less tinged with leadeurgrey, alternating with very slight short 

 strigulse of black irroration ; between ^ and apex the whitish strigulse are 

 often continued across wing as well-marked angulated striee, leaving an angu- 

 lated basal patch and narrow irregular central facia of ground colour ; gener- 

 ally a more or less marked broad streak of blackish irroration in disc from base 

 to end of cell, sometimes well-defined above and continued to near apex ; often 

 a subcrescentic downwards-curved dark spot in disc at f ; space beyond cell 

 variably mixed with whitish suffusion and irrorated with dark fuscous, with 

 two distinct black interneural lines between veins 6-8, and indications of others, 

 especially of ben two short black marks between veins 3-5 : cilia pale brownish- 

 ochreous with rows of whitish points, sometimes somewhat sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous, at apex with a more or less marked dark ochreous- brown spot 

 marked with black. Hindwings grey, paler towards base ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, with an indistinct grey subbasal line. 



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