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inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4; a terminal Bertes of 

 minute black points ; cilia with tine white line at base and some 

 white at apex. Hind wins whitish suffused and thickly irrorated 

 with red-brown ; a slight dark subbasal line ; a diffused dark medial 

 line from below costa to inner margin ; a darkpostmedial line with 

 diffused white band on outer side ; an indistinct white subterminal 

 line; some faint dark points ou termen towards apex; the under- 

 side greyish suffused with fuscous, a slight dark discoidal bar. 

 Hah. Ceylon (Green), 1 tf type. Krp. 14 millim. 



5007. Araeoptera nivalis. (Plate CXLTX. fig. 12.) 

 Arcpop/crum nivalis, Hmpsn. .T. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 671 (1907). 



c? . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi and frons blackish ; 

 antennae tinged with brown except at base ; abdomen white tinged 

 with brown ; fore legs tinged with brown ; mid and hind legs and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing white very faintly 

 irrorated with rufous; a subbasal black point on costa ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, rufous, with black point on costa, angled inwards in 

 cell and oblique below the cell ; a black discoidal point with black 

 point above it on costa followed by a slight rufous mark : postmedial 

 line indistinct, rufous, waved, from below costa to inner margin ; 

 some slight brown marks on postmedial part of costa ; subterminal 

 line hardly traceable, white, excurvcd at middle and with brown 

 marks beyond it at apex and discal fold ; a terminal series of black 

 points: cilia white tinged with brown. Hind wing white slightly 

 irrorated with brown; a faint discoidal spot; a rather diffused 

 brown medial band with black spots at costa, discal fold and inner 

 margin ; traces of a brownish postmedial line and fine terminal line ; 

 the underside white slightly tinged wirh brown. 



Hah. Ceylon, Peradeniya (Green), 1 J type. Exp. 10 millim. 



5008. Araeoptera micraeola. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 13.) 



Essonistis micraola, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 36 (Apr.). 



Thelxinoa eallitcia, Turn. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xsvii. p. 133 (Aug. 1902). 



S . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi blackish except at 

 extremities of 2nd and 3rd joints; frons with black points at sides; 

 abdomen white suffused with red-brown at base and extremity and 

 fuscous at middle; fore legs brownish in front; pectus, mid and 

 hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing white ; 

 some brown on costa towards base ; antemedial line slight, brown ; 

 oblique, angled outwards below costa and cell ; the outer half ot 

 medial area suffused with brown : an oblique black discoidal bar ; 

 postmedial line brown, excurved from below costa to vein 4, angled 

 inwards at submedian fold, then again excurved above inner margin ; 

 ihe costa towards apex with alternating brown and white marks; 

 subterminal line only defined by a brown mark before it below costa, 

 and triangular patch beyond it below apex, ending on termen at 



