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prominent on lower half; pale oclireous, sometimes mixed with 
light grey-greenish and sprinkled with whitish, strewn with un¬ 
defined strigulae of fuscous and dark fuscous irroration; quad¬ 
rate spots outlined or suffused with dark fuscous on costa at base, 
J, and middle ; in an oval fovea in disc from near base to 
filled with rough scales, edged posteriorly with dark fuscous suf¬ 
fusion ; cilia dark grey, sprinkled with whitish points, towards 
base suffused with pale ochreous. Hind wings grey; veins dark 
grey ; cilia grey. 
Chagos Islands, I. du Coin, in June, two specimens; 
also one from Galle, Ceylon, in April (Fletcher). 
GELECHIADAE. 
Brachmia, Hb. 
Brachmia aiUonoma, n. sf). 
$. 12 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, ter¬ 
minal joint with a few dark fuscous scales indicating basal and 
supramedian rings. Antennae pale ochreous suffusedly ringed 
with fuscous. Thorax light brownish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish- 
ochreous, tinged with grey. Fore wings elongate, costa gently 
arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 7 to apex, 8 
and 9 out of 7; pale yellow-ochreous suffusedly mixed with light 
brownish ; sligmata dark fuscous, plical somewhat before first discal; 
a small cloudy fuscous spot on dorsum beneath second discal; a row 
of dark fuscous dots round posterior part of costa and termen : cilia 
whitish-ochreous tinged with brownish. Hindwings pale greyish ; 
cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 
Chagos Islands ; one specimen. 
METACHANDIDAE. 
Metachanda, Meyr. 
Metachanda Jimhriata, n. sp. 
$. 15-16 mm. Head and thorax dark purple-fuscous, with an 
ochreous-yellow line above eyes. Palpi ochreous-yellowish mixed 
with dark fuscous. Fore wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; dark purple-fuscous; an 
irregular transverse somewhat oblique blackish bar representing first 
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