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disc, round which are a blackish dot above middle at f-, a moderate dark fuscous spot 

 on middle of costa, and an undefined streak of blackish scales along fold beneath 

 middle ; two or three small dark fuscous spots on costa beyond middle ; terminal fourth 

 irregularly suffused with fuscous, with some blackish scales towards tornus. Hindwings 1, 

 grey ; cilia light grey. 



Mahe, Cascade Estate, 800 feet, in February ; one specimen. 



Trichotaphe Clem. 



27. Trichotaphe seminata, n. sp. 



¥ 11 — 12 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint dark fuscous 

 except apex, anterior edge of terminal joint suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly gently arched, posteriorly 

 nearly straight, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique ; ashy-fuscous, with 

 scattered black scales, posteriorly more numerous and tending to form series between 

 veins ; extreme costal edge ochreous-whitish from base to middle ; a blackish dot in 

 disc at ^ ; stigmata cloudy, blackish, discal approximated, plical small, rather before 

 first discal ; a cloudy ochreous-whitish dot on costa at § ; a hardly defined curved 

 shade of black irroration from this to tornus ; a series of black dots round apical part 

 of costa and termen : cilia pale greyish, towards base paler barred with darker and 

 limited by a darker antemedian line. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia light grey, with 

 darker subbasal shade. 



Aldabra ; two specimens. 



Ypsolophus Fabr. 



28. Ypsolophus ianthes Meyr. 



(Ypsolophus ianthes Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, 273 ; Y. ochrophanes Meyr., 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvn. 981.) 



MahtS, Port Victoria, in February ; one specimen. Also occurs in India, Ceylon, 

 and Reunion, doubtless artificially spread ; the larva feeds on Medicago, Cyamopsis, and 

 other Leguminosa>. I have recognised from the material now available that the two 

 names quoted above indicate only one species, the type of ianthes being an example with 

 the normal dark clouding nearly obsolete. 



Metachandidae. 

 Metachanda, n. gen. 



Head with appressed scales; ocelli absent; tongue developed. Antennae f, in 

 $ ciliated, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, 

 second joint with appressed scales, terminal shorter, moderate, acute. Maxillary palpi 

 very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae rough-scaled above. Forewings 

 with 2 from near angle, 7 absent, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal-ovate, 

 cilia ^ ; 3 and 4 connate, transverse vein obsolete, 5 and 6 absent (median fold well 

 marked, looking like a vein). 



Type M. thaleropis. This genus is the type of a group, characterised by the absence 



