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SECT. III. Palpi of male with the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 2nd and 3rd joints not fringed with curved 

 scales; irons with a tuft of rough hair; vertex of head 

 not hollowed out ; antennas with the basal joint not dilated, 

 the shaft thickened and flattened but without ridge of scales. 



4420. Spatulipalpia pallicostalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 63 ; Rag. Mon. 



Phyc. p. 18, pi. xli, fig. 1 ; C. $ S. no. 4557. 



Red-brown irrorated with white ; head whitish. Fore wing 

 with the costal area white irrorated with brown and broadening 

 from base to apex ; a white spot in cell and discocellular spot ; an 

 oblique postmedial series of white specks ; cilia whitish. Hind 

 wing pale semihyaline, with marginal fuscous line. 



Hob. Coimbatore ; Ceylon. Exp. 22 millim. 



4421. Spatulipalpia erythrina, n. sp. 



c?. Head and thorax dark red-brown; abdomen pale rufous. 

 Pore wing purplish red-brown ; a sinuous medial line with fuscous 

 mark on its inner edge below costa, the inner area beyond it paler ; 

 a dark postmedial line slightly bent outwards at vein 5. Hind wing 

 pale tinged with ferruginous red, especially on inner area ; the veins 

 .and cilia ferruginous red. 



Hob. Calcutta (Atkinson). Exp. 14 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus CEROPREPES. 



Ceroprepes, Zett. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 401. 



Type, O. patriciella, Zell. 



Range. Amur; Himalayas. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 well developed and acuminate ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons 

 rounded ; antennas of male with uniseriate branches, the basal joint 

 long and much thickened at extremity, the base of shaft thickened 

 by a ridge of scales on upperside. Eore wing with a ridge of raised 

 scales before the antemedial line ; vein 3 from close to angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 10 approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8 ; the cell short. 



4422. Ceroprepes patriciella, Zell. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 401, pi. ii, 

 figs. 4 a, b ; Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 9, pi. iv, fig. 2 ; C. fy S. no 4554. 



c?. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen reddish ochreous, 

 with slight fuscous mark- 

 ings. Fore wing purplish 

 rufous suffused with fus- 

 cous ; the costa rufous ; 

 Fig. 60.- Ceroprepes patriciella, J. j. an indistinct pale sinuous 



medial line, with olive band inside it, white patch on costa, and tufts 



