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joint with large dense anterior dark fuscous scale-tuft. Abdomen fuscous, 

 sides suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with 

 pale yellowish, anterior tibiae rough-haired beneath, middle tibiae rough-scaled, 

 posterior tibise hairy beneath and with very large curled median tuft of light 

 fuscous scales above, posterior tarsi rough-scaled above throughout. Forewings 

 elongate, narrow, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 3, 4, 5 approximated, 7 to termen ; 

 dark fuscous, with a few whitish-ochreous scales ; a tuft of scales in disc near 

 base ; a transverse light ochreous-yellow mark at f, somewhat dilated upwards, 

 reaching from near costa to below middle: cilia whitish-fuscous, darker towards 

 tips, base pale ochreous-yellow, with a dark fuscous subbasal shade. Hind- 

 wings oblong, termen beneath apex hardly oblique ; ochreous-yellow ; a mode- 

 rate suffused dark fuscous streak along costa, dilated at apex ; a suffused dark 

 fuscous streak proceeding from a basal tuft of scales along dorsum and termen 

 to above middle, widest at tornus and gradually attenuated; a groove along 

 fold, enclosing an exceedingly long expansible pale ochreous-yellowish hair- 

 pencil ; cilia whitish-ochreous, becoming ochreous-yellow towards base on upper 

 part of termen, with fuscous subbasal shade obsolete on yellow area. 



Three specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January and February (Pole, Alston). 

 Very similar to crassella, but structurally distinct in the palpi, especially by the 

 elongate basal joint and resulting elbow, the large whitish interior hairtuft, and 

 the dark fuscous costal streak of hindwings, of which the termen is less oblique 

 on upper portion and therefore more prominently bowed ; the reduced yellow 

 mark of f orewings is found also sometimes in crassella, but is there exceptional. 



Timyra parochra, n. sp. 



$„ 23-27 mm. Head ochreous. Palpi dark purplish-fuscous, internally 

 deep ochreous-yellow, second joint thickened with scales, above rough-scaled, 

 terminal joint shorter than second, thickened with scales, tolerably pointed. 

 Antennae ochreous faintly ringed with fuscous, basal joint without tuft. 

 Thorax purplish-fuscous, more or less mixed with pale ochreous. Abdomen 

 pale ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with ochreous-yellowish, posterior 

 tibiae orange-suffused on basal half, partially rough-scaled, with large 

 curled median purplish-fuscous tuft above, posterior tarsi somewhat 

 rough-scaled above. Forewings elongate, rather narrowed towards base, costa 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 3, 4, 5 

 approximated, 7 to termen ; deep yellow-ochreous or brownish-ochreous, irro- 

 rated with purplish fuscous and dark fuscous ; a curved postmedian fascia more 

 or less obscurely indicated by margins of purplish-fuscous and dark fuscous 

 suffusion, narrowed dorsally, enclosed portion sometimes ferruginous-tinged : 

 cilia whitish-ochreous tinged with fuscous, more yellow-ochreous basally, with 

 subbasal fuscous line, on costa deep yellow-ochreous. Hindwings pale whitish- 

 ochreous, towards termen slightly infuscated ; a slight groove on lower margin 

 of cell ; cilia whitish-ochreous, base yellowish-tinged, sometimes with indis- 

 tinct fuscous subbasal line. 



