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fulvous and fuscous. Forewing with streaks of diffused fuscous 
scales below costa, from base of inner margin to cell and along 
vein 2, and from inner margin before middle along vein 1 ; slight 
yellow spots at base of vein 2 and on discocellulars, the latter with 
a dark speck above it on costa; an ill-defined yellow submarginal 
band with some dark scales on its edges; a marginal yellow band 
defined on inner side by a fine black line and with a marginal series 
of minute black points. Hindwing with slight oblique fuscous 
line across end of cell; two sinuous fuscous diffused submarginal 
lines with some yellow between them at middle ; a yellowish 
marginal band defined on inner side by a waved black line and 
with three marginal black spots with orange between them on the 
lobe. 
Hab. Kandy, Ceylon. Exp., 16 mm. ‘Type in Coll. 
Rothschild. 
Auctorum. 
Parapoynx chrysota, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., 1886, p. 221 . : : ° : Aeeloriie 
Oligostigma quinqualis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., Java, 
XV, p. L76 é : : : : Celebes. 
Oligostigma adjunctalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 
1894, p. 56, pl. 6, figs. 17 & 18, : s . dava. 
Oligostigma candidalis, Pag., J. B., Nass. Ver., 
MUI, Pl ibe - : : : : ye 2eGRUe 
Oligostigma argyrotoxalis, Pag., J. B., Nass. 
Wer, Xxxix, Dn 176) . ‘ : j « Aru. 
Oligostigma prestabilis, Pag., J. B., Nass. Ver., 
MK, Pe ed : . 5 ;, Aru. 
Oligostigma orphninalis, Pag., J. B., Nass. Ver., 
5 O.S.b. ae 0501 i We 3 : : F 2 EASE. 
Genus AULACODES. 
Aulacodes, Guen., Delt. and Pyr., p. 285 (1854). 
Hydrophysa, Guen., Delt. and Pyr., p. 259. 
Chnaura, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 435. 
Palpi upturned and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 2nd 
joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd usually short with 
a small triangular tuft in front ; maxillary palpi as long as the 
labial and dilated with scales at extremity ; frons oblique ; an- 
tennze of male thickened and flattened with appressed serrations ; 
ocelli usually indistinct ; legs very long and slender ; wings long 
and narrow. Forewing with vein 3 from angle of cell, which has 
