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fringed with hair below, the 3rd conically scaled ; maxillary palpi as 

 long as the labial and dilated with scales at extremity ; irons flat 

 and oblique ; antennae annulated with rings at the joints ; legs long 

 and slender, the tibiae somewhat hairy. Fore wing somewhat 

 narrow ; the apex rectangular ; the cell short ; veins 3, 4, 5 

 stalked ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. 

 Hind wing with the cell very short ; vein 3 from the angle ; 4, 5 

 on a long stalk ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly 

 with 8. 



4499. Cangetta rectilinea, Moore, Lev. Ceyl. iii. p. 314, pi. 182, fig- 3 



C. 8f S. no. 4331. 

 Parapoynx griseolalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 176, pi. 174, fig. 12. 



White suffused with fuscous ; palpi blackish, the 3rd joint 

 white. Fore wing with the base of costa blackish ; almost straight 



blackish ante- and postmedial 

 lines, the latter slightly defined 

 with whitish towards costa; a 

 black marginal line, towards 

 apex becoming maculate and 

 inwardly defined by white. 

 Hind wing with traces of 

 Fig. 76. Cangetta rectilinea, <$. f. discocellular spot; a slightly 



curved postmedial fuscous line 



terminating near anal angle ; a black marginal line, obsolete below 

 vein 2. Both wings with the cilia grey, with a dark line through 

 them on fore wing and two on hind wing. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



4500. Cangetta albocarnea, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 149. 



Pale fulvous ; head whitish. Fore wing with slightly curved 

 fulvous antemedial line ; an indistinct discocellular speck ; a post- 

 medial line straight from costa to vein 2, then slightly retracted 

 and inwardly edged by diffused white from costa to vein 5; a 

 submarginal line with series of dark specks on it, becoming almost 

 marginal at vein 5 ; a marginal line. Hind wing with antemedial 

 fulvous line ; a postmedial line oblique from costa to near the 

 margin at vein 2, then retracted and obsolescent ; some dark specks 

 on apical part of margin. 



Hob. Khasis; Ceylon. Earp. 12 millim. 



Genus PETTA. 

 Petta, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 469 (1895). 



Type, P. alternata, Warr. 



Range. Assam ; Ceylon. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with very long 

 hair below, the 3rd long, naked, and acute; maxillary palpi large 

 and triangularly scaled ; antennas of male ciliated ; tibiae nearly 



