Mr. F. Moore on Ceylon Lepidoptera. 345 



Female. Uniform pale yellow, without markings. Under- 

 side — costal border bright yellow. 

 Exp. c^ I, ? 14- inch. 

 Hah. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Artaxa cervina. 



Male. Fore wing brownish ochreous, with two transverse 

 median pale yellowish slightly wavy lines : hind wing pale 

 brownish fawn-colour. Body brownish ochreous. Underside 

 dark brownish fawn-colour, outer borders yellowish. Legs 

 brownish above. 



Exp. I to I inch. 



Hah. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Most nearly allied to A. varians^ Walker, but is a much 

 smaller insect and of different-coloured wings. 



Ckoerotricha decussata. 



Female. Ochreous yellow, palest on hind wing and abdo- 

 men : fore wing very sparsely irrorated with prominent black 

 scales ; two indistinct grey recurved median bands crossing 

 each other below the cell ; a small black spot at end of the 

 cell. Underside uniform ochreous-yellow. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Hah. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Near to Ch. plana {Artaxa plana ^ Walker) ; distinguished 

 by its smaller size and by the cross bands on the fore wing. 



Fara. Psychidae. 



Chalia, n. g. 



Wings quite transparent, naked ; abdominal border fringed 

 with fine hairs : fore wing short, broad, arched at the base, 

 rounded at apex and at posterior angle ; cell broad, upper part 

 longest ; subcostal vein five-branched, the branches very short, 

 first and second arising before end of the cell, fourth and fifth 

 at equal distances from lower side of third, and terminating 

 below the apex ; discocellulars inwardly oblique, lower bent 

 inward at half its length ; discoidal veinlet emitted from angle 

 of lower discocellular and anastomosing with subcostal near 

 end of the cell ; one radial emitted from lower end of upper dis- 

 cocellular ; median vein four-branched, the two lower branches 

 from before end of cell, curved, third at end of cell, fourth 

 short and emitted at half the length of the latter ; submedian 

 vein recurved to two thirds its length, thence straight to pos- 



