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reaching to vertex of head and broadly fringed with scales in front, 

 the 3rd moderate and acute ; maxillary palpi slight and filiform ; 

 irons smooth and rounded ; antennae of female somewhat laminate 

 and almost simple. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 7. 



Platytesis semifurva, sp. n. 



2 . Head and thorax fulvous; abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused 

 with fulvous ; pectus and legs whitish. Fore wing fulvous with 

 slight dark irroration ; cilia silvery white with a black line near 

 base. Hind wing white with a faint brownish tinge ; the cilia 

 with a slight blackish line near base to submedian fold. Underside 

 white, the fore wing and costal area of hind wing suffused with 

 fulvous. 



Hab. Siam, Biserat, 1 S type. JExp. 16 mm. 



Genus Patissodes, nov. 

 Type, P. fulvinotata. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled in front, 

 the 3rd moderate and obtuse ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons 

 smooth and rounded; antennae of male laminate and almost simple. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell, 4, 5 approximated for a short dis- 

 tance ; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 7. 



Patissodes fuhnnotata, sp. n. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen silvery white; antennae yellow- 

 brown ; palpi blackish above to near extremity of 2nd joint ; fore 

 tibiae and the tarsi banded with black-brown. Fore wing silvery 

 white ; a rather diffused pale fulvous antemedial band, oblique to 

 just below the cell, where it is angled outwards, then inwardly 

 oblique ; a diffused pale discoidal spot ; a diffused pale fulvous 

 subterminal band, interrupted between veins 5 and 3, where there 

 is a spot beyond it on termen. Hind wing silvery white. Under- 

 side white ; fore wing with postmedial series of minute blackish 

 streaks on the veins from below costa to vein 3 ; hind wing with 

 punctiform blackish postmedial line from costa to vein 3. 



Hab. Singapore {Ridley), 1 S type. JExp. 20 mm. 



(2) Neoschcenobia decoloralis, sp. n. 

 2 . Head and thorax pale reddish brown, the frons with white 



