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teriorly with metallic purple : cilia whitish- fuscous, mixed with darker, with 

 rows of pale points. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximated ; fuscous 

 paler towards base : cilia fuscous-whitish, with pale fuscous subbasal shade. 



Five specimens, Puttalam, Ceylon, in A.pril and October (Pole). 



Copromorpha efflorescens, n. sp. 



9. 17-19 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, face with a fuscous frontal band. 

 Palpi dark fuscous, apex of terminal joint whitish. Antennae whitish-ochreous, 

 suffusedly mottled with dark fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, shoulders and 

 crest fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous mixed with fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, narrowed anteriorly, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen somewhat rounded, hardly oblique ; 2 from towards angle, 3, 4, 5 

 closely approximated, 7, 8, 9 closely approximated ; fuscous (actually ribbed 

 with dark fuscous scales with pale bases) ; about seven irregular transverse 

 series of ochreous-yellow tufts, edged anteriorly with dark fuscous and poste- 

 riorly with metallic slaty-purple ; several yellow- whitish marks on veins at f, 

 above and below middle : cilia light slaty-fuscous, with rows of pale points. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 separate, 5 closely approximated to 4 ; fuscous ; cilia 

 pale fuscous, tips whitish. 



Four specimens, Matale and Madulsima, Ceylon, in April and from October 

 to December (Pole, Vaughan). Very like the preceding species, but, easily 

 distinguished by the different form of forewings, which are very obviously 

 broader posteriorly, whilst in metallitis they are nearly the same width through - 

 out ; the differences in neuration, darker colouring, and posterior whitish marks 

 in disc are also characteristic. 



CHLIDANOTIDj-E. 



I find it necessary to form this new family for the reception of the three 

 following genera, together with Trymalitis, described in my last paper and 

 there referred to the Phaloniadcn, and also Archimaga, there referred to the 

 Plutellidce. The family is in fact intermediate between the Phaioniadoz and 

 Epiblemidce, on the one hand, and the PluteUidce on the other, and appears to 

 indicate the real genetic transition between these groups ; it is therefore of 

 much interest. The family characters are as follows : — 



Head rough or loosely haired ; tongue short or absent. Antennae about |, 

 simple. Labial palpi ascending or porrected, second joint rough-scaled, 

 terminal joint pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Forewings with 1 bifurcate, 

 2 from §— | of cell, 3 from or near angle, 8 and 9 stalked or coincident, 11 from 

 beyond middle. Hindwings trapezoidal, lower margin of cell without basal 

 pe^ten of hairs ; 3 and 4 connate, stalked, or coincident, 5 parallel, 6 and 

 7 long-stalked, 8 free. 



Chlidanota, n. g. 



Head rough ; tongue apparently absent. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, 

 second joint broadly dilated with rough scales towards apex above and 

 beneath, terminal joint moderate, tolerably pointed. Antennae about £, simple. 

 Posterior tibiae with loosely appressed hairs. Forewings with 2 from before f , 



