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the apical part of costa brown, with some white specks on it ; a 

 minutely dentate white submarginal line excurved at middle, and 

 with some black specks on it below costa. Hind wing with a pale 

 medial line, slightly excurved at middle ; both wings with brown 

 marginal line ; the cilia purple at tips. 



Some specimens have the medial area of both wings suffused 

 with purple-brown except on costal area of fore wing, the disco- 

 cellular spot white. 



Larva like the figure of the European E. scitula, Insect Life/ vi, 

 i, p. 6 ; colour pinkish or greenish. Feeds on various species of 

 Coccids such as Lecanium and Pulvinaria ; living in a case formed 

 of their remains, the case of the young being formed of a single 

 scale to which additions are made as required, and having a four- 

 sided valve at anterior end. 



Hob. Ceylon (Green, Pole). Exp. 24 millim. Type in B. M. 



2131 a. Eublemma acrapex, n. sp. 



$ . Fuscous, thickly irrorated with grey. Fore wing with the 

 npex produced and acute ; a pale sinuous antemedial line angled 

 below costa, then inwardly oblique ; a slight pale discocellular 

 mark ; a pale postmedial line, very much excurved from costa to 

 vein 2, where it is angled ; a dark patch on the costa with three 

 white specks ; an indistinct highly dentate submarginal pale line. 

 Hind wing with indistinct sinuous postmedial and highly dentate 

 fiubmarginal lines. 



Hab. Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 22 millim. Type in B. M. 



5134 a. Troctoptera bisectalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 449 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii, pi. 179, fig. 12 ; C. $ 8. no. 4403. 



Whitish ; abdomen slightly tinged with pink and fuscous. 

 Fore wing with pinkish patch near base from cell to inner margin ; 

 an antemedial black line outwardly oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then bent inwards ; a prominent inwardly-oblique black 

 medial band, with a speck before it in cell, one beyond it on costa, 

 and two on discocellulars ; a reddish patch on inner margin before 

 outer angle ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing with 

 black antemedial line, with a pink and black patch beyond it and 

 beyond end of cell bearing a white discocellular spot ; a sinuous 

 postmedial black line, the area beyond it purplish pink, with a 

 black spot near anal angle ; the cilia whitish. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



21346. Troctoptera deleta, Moore. Lep. Ceyl iii, p. 304, pi. 179, 

 fig. 13 ; C.8f S. no. 4404. 



White ; the thorax, abdomen, and fore wing suffused with pale 

 yellow-brown, the last with traces of curved antemedial line ; a 

 black speck in cell ; an oblique red-brown band across apical area 

 not reaching outer margin, and usually with a dark spot at its 



