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

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

 crests; tibite fringed with loug hair; abdoineu smoothly scaled and w'itiioiit 

 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 witli 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 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. Antennte of male bi):)ectinate with long branches to just beyond middle, 

 the apical part ciliated. 



4505. Elydna bosca. 



Dyrzela hosca, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 260 ; Hmji-sn. Moths Ind. 

 'ii. p. 267. 



(5 . 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 

 sligntly 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 ; postmedial 



Fig. 50. — Elydna basca, (^ . 



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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 sttbterminal 

 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 ; tlus underside grey 

 tinged with reddish brown. 



Hah. Burma, llangoon, 1 c5' type, Bhauio, 1 cj" ; Borneo, Sara- 

 wak {Wallace), 1 J . Eaj^. y4 millim. 



Sect. II. {Byr-ela). Antennaj of male strongly serrate above to middle, 

 strongly fasciculate below. 



4500. Elydna plagiata. 



Di/rzclaplacpafa, Wlk. xv. 1758 (18.")S) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 267. 

 Of/lasa cosfipannosa, Swinh. 'trans. Ent. Soc. 18(10, p. 266. 

 Offlasa costijdaga, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. ir)3. 



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



