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submedian and subapical bands of second joint, and median band of terminal 

 joint blackish. Antennae grey, basal joint grey-whitish, with a blackish dot. 

 Abdomen grey, second segment and sometimes first and third with pale oohre- 

 ous-yellowish dorsal patches, apex ochreous-yellow. Forewings elongate, costa 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather oblique ; pale 

 whitish-fuscous, markings blackish ; a streak from base of costa to beneath 

 eosta at §, brown towards its middle ; an irregular streak along fold from base 

 to near middle, beyond apex of which lies a dot surrounded with whitish ; a 

 median longitudinal streak from before middle to termen beneath apex, its 

 posterior extremity bifurcate ; a series of irregular dots along posterior part 

 of costa and termen ; cilia whitish-fuscous mixed with ochreous-whitish, 

 towards tips ochveoue-whitish, with dark fuscous spaces at apex and middle of 

 termen. Hindwings fuscous-whitish, suffused with fuscous towards apex ; 

 cilia pale fuscous, on apical half and towards tornus wholly ochreous-whitish. 



Eight specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, in April and from September to January 

 (Pole). 



ELACHISTIDJi. 



Hieromantis fibulata, n. sp. 



9. 13-14 mm. Head and thorax yellow-orange, face shining white. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, Antennae whitish-ochreous, eyecap white. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings very narrow-lanceolate, widest near base, thence 

 narrowed to acute apex ; yellow-orange ; dorsum grey towards base ; a black 

 spot near dorsum beyond \, centred with a white dot ; beyond this a larger 

 golden-metallic dorsal spot, partially edged above irregularly with black ; a 

 variably developed fuscous terminal streak from apex to tornus, sometimes 

 wide towards costa : cilia fuscous, towards base tinged with orange-yellowish. 

 Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Three specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in May and June (Pole, de Mowbray). 



Stathmopoda rnasinissa, n. sp. 



£. 17 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae whitish-ochreous, base of palpi dark 

 fuscous. Thorax dark purplish -grey, with a whitish-ochreous posterior dot. 

 Abdomen rather dark grey. Legs dark grey, middle tibiae rough-haired above, 

 posterior tibiae clothed with very large dense expansible brush of hairs above, 

 all tarsi whitish-ochreous, posterior pair spotted with dark grey, with project- 

 ing scales at joints, Forewings linear-lanceolate, widest near base, thence 

 narrowed to acute apex ; dark fuscous-grey, faintly purplish-tinged ; a some- 

 what oblique whitish-ochreous mark from costa before \ : cilia fuscous-grey. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous, with a narrow longitudinal transparent patch in disc 

 from base to \ ; cilia fuscous. 



One specimen, Matale, Ceylon, in October (Pole). 



jEoloscelis theoris, n. sp. 



£9« 10-12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, back of crown yellow. Palpi, 

 antennae, and abdomen whitish-ochreous. Thorax yellow. Forewings narrow- 

 lanceolate, widest near base, thence gradually narrowed to acute apex; fuscous, 



