BY MISS A. E. PBOUT. 489 



Fore wing dark purplish-fuscous with a row of subterminal 

 white spots on the veins ; other markings almost obsolete. 

 Head and thorax <'as usual) matching fore wing ; palpus 

 bright buff in front and on inner side. Abdomen and 

 hind icinq greyish-fuscous, the latter paler on proximal 

 two-thirds, whitish at base; the discal spot, veins and 

 terminal lunules darker. Underside somewhat as above but 

 both wings paler, the hind wing with a sharply defined 

 discal spot and with pale, waved, proximally dark bordered 

 medial and postmedial lines. 



9 , 27-32 mm. 



Fcrre wing without the costal fold and fringe of scales ; 

 neuiation normal, with SC'^ given off just before SC^. A 

 pale spot on costa at origin of postmedial line, which is 

 sometimes very faintly indicated throughout (curved) ; a 

 dark discal spot usually just discernible. Hind wing and 

 underside much is in the cf . 



Mt. Mnrud, 6000-fi500 feet, October— 1 cf : ^-"^00 feet, 

 November — 1 9 ; without exact elevation, November — 1 9 • 

 Also 2 9 from Mt. Poi (5200 feet and 4400 feet), and 1 9 

 from Mt. Penrissen, 3500 feet. 



A narrower- winded insect and more u.iiform purplish - 

 fuscous in tone than the majoritv of Hydrillodes species : 

 perhaps nearest to funestalis, (Bleptiva funesfalis Wlk.. 

 Spec. Lep. Ins., xxiv, p. 1163, 1865, Moreton Bav.^ But 

 remarkable in the cf for tlie stalking of ^C with ^C'\ 



110. Hydrillodes gravatatjs Wlkr. 



Biicnno 'irnvatalin Wlkr., Spp(\ Lep. Tns., xvi. p. 17-5, 18/58, Ce.Tlon. 



Aft. Murud, November— 1 9 ; Mt. Penrissen, 3500 feet— 

 1 9. 



The Sarawak form (cnifhusalis Wlkr.) does not appear to 

 me to differ racially from gravnfalis from Ceylon. Only 

 known to me from these two localities and (in Coll. Brit. 

 Mus.) from Travancore. 



HI. Hydrillodes PERTRrNCAXA sp. n. 



(f , 32-35 mm. 



Palpus sickle-shaped : segment 1 rather longer than the 

 normal; segment 2 strongly curved, shortly and evenly 

 scaled, fully 1^ diameter of eye: segment 3 acute, with very 

 slight hair before and behind, more than twice length of 2. 



