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towards inner margin ; some black and white points on costa towards apex ; a 

 more or less developed diffused oblique black fascia from apex crossing 

 the postmedial line ; a white bar on termen from below apex to vein 5 ; cilia 

 whitish mixed with fuscons. Hindwing fuscous : cilia whitish mixed with 

 fuscous, the underside whitish tinged with brown arid irrorated with fuscous. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis ; Sarawak ; Pulo Laut ; Java. Exp. 20-22 mill. 



2013. Hyela eervens. u. sp. 



Ochreous tinged with olive ; forelegs banded with fuscous. Forewing with 

 waved white ante- and postmedial lines excurved at middle, the former defined 

 on outer side by black scales, the latter on inner side and with white annulns 

 on its outer edge beyond the cell ; an incomplete white subterminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and submedial folds, excurved at 

 middle. Hindwing ochreous tinged with brown : cilia ochreous with a brown 

 line through them. Underbid) suffused with fuscous : hindwing with discoidal 

 spot and indistinct curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Habitat— Can aka, Karwar (Bell) ; Madras, Belgaum (Watson). Exp. 18 

 mill. Type in B. M. 



2016. a. Megalodes insocia, Wlk., XII, 788 (1857), 

 Acontia concinnula, Wlk., XII, 789 (1857). 



„ pyralina, Wlk., XII, 789 (1857). 

 Metaplioplasta sima, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mom, IV, p. 17 (I860). 

 Acontia conifrons, Auriv CEfv. Ak. Forh., XXXVI (7), p. 66 (1879). - 

 Tarache porphyria ( 9 ), Butl. P. Z. S., 1898, p, 420. 

 Agrophila burmana, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7), XV, p. 153 (1905). 



$, White; palpi and sides of frons tinged with fuscous, abdomen with 

 ochreous ; fore and mid tibia) banded with fuscous. Forewing with two 

 waved fuscous antemedial lines with patches before them on costa and inner 

 margin ; medial and postmedial spots on costa ; incomplete small black- 

 ringed orbicular and reniform stigmata ; the terminal area blackish, 

 narrow at costa, angled inwards to just beyond the reniform at vein 

 6 and to origin of vein 2 below the cell ; an indistinct double minute- 

 ly waved black postmedial line forming the inner edge of dark area at 

 costa, incurved below vein 4 and with slight dentate black marks on it 

 beyond the cell ; an irregular interrupted subterminal white line : a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia white at middle and below apex. Hindwing yellow- 

 ish white slightly tinged with brown on costa and terminal areas. 



$. Thorax suffused with fuscous; forewing fuscous brown with some 

 irregular white marks before the antemedial lines and two conjoined spots c n 

 costa beyond middle ; hindwing wholly suffused with brown. 



Habitat.— Sierra Leone ; Sokotra ; Br. E. Africa ; Damaraland ; N'Gamiland, C. 

 Colony ; Kntch ; Bombay ; Ceylon ; Burma, Beeling, Thayetmyo. Exp. 24 mill. 



2025. a. Tarache anormalis. n. sp. 



9. Head and thorax clothed with red-brown, red, white and black scales; 

 mesothorax with a pair of white tipped orange tufts ; pectus and legs[ greyish, 



