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from just above the angle ; upper radial sinuous from below 

 the upper angle ; first, second, and stem of the other three 

 subcostals curved at origin, the third, fourth, and fifth all 

 starting from a point. Hind wings with costal closely 

 approximated to, but not actually anastomosing with, the first 

 subcostal nervule, which leaves the other close to their origin ; 

 first median at two thirds, second shortly before angle of cell, 

 third and radial together from the angle. 

 Type Trichotophysa olivalis, sp. n. 



Trichotophysa olivalis, sp. n. 



Fore wings olive, tinged in parts with reddish, and dusted 

 and suffused with dark fuscous ; the central area between the 

 lines darkest; first line at one third, wavy, obscure; the 

 basal area paler, tinged with rosy, and with a black spot at 

 base ; second line at two thirds, curved and crenulate to inner 

 margin at two thirds ; a black spot at end of cell before the 

 olive comb of scales ; marginal area olive, with a darker 

 fuscous shade in the middle, most evident on costa ; a row of 

 black spots before the olive fringes. Hind wing semitrans- 

 parent, pale olive, tinged with rosy and fuscous, with traces 

 of a denticulate submarginal grey line; fringe as in fore 

 wings. Head and thorax olive ; abdomen reddish, with paler 

 anal tuft ; metathorax with a dark brown tuft. Underside 

 glossy, dull olive ; the fore wings smeared with darker. 



Expanse of wings 30 millim. 



One male from the Khasias. 



Subfamily Ptbalidinje. 

 POLYCAMPSIS, gen. nov. 



Fore wings elongate, narrow ; costa uneven, bulged at one 

 third and two thirds, concave between the bulges and between 

 the second and apex ; apex shortly but strongly produced ; 

 hind margin shortly but strongly incised below apex, then 

 remarkably gibbous ; anal angle obtuse and rounded off; inner 

 margin convex. Hind wings with apex somewhat produced, 

 the hind margin slightly excised below it, then faintly curved ; 

 both wings beneath with strong wisps of hair from the base ; 

 fore wings with an oval indentation beneath at costa close to 

 base, appearing above as a scale-covered blister. Antennas 

 of male simple, filiform, short ; forehead oblique, hairy ; 

 maxillary palpi large, laxly haired, triangular ; labial palpi 

 decumbent, hairy, blunt, five times as long as head ; the 

 forehead, the maxillary and the labial palpi united to form a 



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