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head, slender, the 3rd long; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antennae of 

 male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests; tibiae fringed with long hair; abdomen smoothly scaled and without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, i from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars or rather stronger from well below middle; 6,7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipecfinate with long branches to just beyond middle, 

 the apical part ciliated. 



4505. Elydna bosca. 



Dyrzela bosca, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 266 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 2f>7. 



cj . Head and thorax pale reddish brown, the scales tipped with 

 greyish ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 reddish brown. .Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey and 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 obliquely curved and very slightly waved; an indistinct medial 

 line, oblique from costa to just below cell, then erect ; postmcdial 



Fig. 50. — Elydna basca, tf. ]. 



line indistinct, double, excurved to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, 

 then oblique and very slightly waved, an oblique black spot beyond 

 it between veins 7 and 6; traces of a minutely waved subterminal 

 line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a series of prominent 

 black points just before termen ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the underside grey 

 tinged with reddish brown. 



Bab. Burma, Rangoon, 1 d" type, Bhamo, 1 tf ■ Bokxeo, Sara- 

 wak (Wallace), 1 d" . Exp. ^4 millim. 



Sect. II. (Di/r^ela). Antennae of male strongly serrate above to middle, 

 strongly fasciculate below. 



4506. Elydna plagiata. 



Dyrzela plagiata, Wlk. xv. 1758 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 2f>7. 

 Oglasa costipannom, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 266. 

 Oglasa costiplaga, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 153. 



Head and thorax chocolate-brown, the vertex of head whitish ; 



