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excurved between veins 7 and 8, with black patch beyond it at 

 costa ; a dark marginal crenulate line. Hind wing with diffused 

 fuscous antemedial band ; a discocellular speck ; a pale sinuous 

 postmedial line ; a tine dark crenulate marginal line and a line 

 through the cilia. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Margharita, Assam ; Ceylon ; Malayan subregion. 

 Exp. 14 millim. 



4765. Sufetula rectifascialis, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous and white ; palpi with the 

 extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints white ; wings pale suffused with 

 fuscous brown. Fore wing with oblique antemedial line, with 

 whitish band on its inner edge ; a black discocellular spot ; three 

 pale annuli on outer half of costa ; an oblique postmedial line with 

 white band on its outer edge bent inwards at vein 6. Hind wing 

 with oblique straight ante- and postmedial lines, the former with 

 the black discocellular spot on it, the latter with white band on 

 its outer edge ; a submarginal line waved towards anal angle. 



Hab. Ceylon (Pole). Exp., J 12, $ 14 millim. Type m B. M. 



Genus MASSEPHA. 

 Massepha, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 488 (1859). 



Type, M. absolutalis, Wlk. 



Range. India ; Ceylon ; Java. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with scales in 

 front and not reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and 

 acuminate ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons rounded ; antennae of 

 male annulated; tibiae with the outer spurs two-thirds length of 

 inner. Fore wing with the apex acute and somewhat produced ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 well separated from 8, 9, to 

 which 10 is approximated. Hind wing with the cell short, veins 3, 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with two slight indentations of the outer 

 margin below veins 7 and 6. 



4766. Massepha absolutalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 489; C. $ S. no. 4332. 

 Physematia pollutalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 240, & xxvii, 



pi. 4, fig. 10. 



Ochreous white, thickly 

 striated with brown. Fore 

 wing with a dark spot below 

 middle of cell ; some dark 

 specks on costa ; an ill-defined 

 pale submarginal line bent 

 wwfe at vein 2 the area 

 beyond it somewhat darker, 



with a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing with the apical 



area darker ; a marginal series of dark specks. 



