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2162 a. Mick/eschus oinistis, n. sp. 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen vinous red and -whitish; shaft of antennso 

 and a band between their bases white. Forewing whitish tinged with vinous 

 red and irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct antemedial line from cell to inner 

 margin ; an oblique line from costa to lower angle of cell ; a diffused blackish 

 discoidal spot ; traces of a postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the terminal area slightly darker with traces of a pale waved sub- 

 terminal line ; some dark points on termen. Hindwing purplish red ; the post- 

 medial line .represented by a white bar on inner margin ; cilia whitish at tips. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Kandy ( Pole ), Yatiyantota (Green). Exp. 14 mill. 



Type in B. M. 



2164. C. MlCRvESCHUS purpurascens, n. sp. 



£. Deep purplish pink ; palpi, frons and forelegs brown ; vertex of head 

 and shaft of antennas above pure white ; ventral surface of abdomen and anal 

 tuft yellow. Forewing with traces of an antemedial line ; an indistinct post- 

 medial line very oblique from costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the 

 area between the lines rather darker ; the costa except at base and between 

 the lines white. Hindwing with postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 3, 

 then incurved, the area beyond it rather paler ; both wings with the termen 

 and cilia orange yellow. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Kandy (Pole). Exp. 16 mill. Type in B. M. 



2164. d. MlCRiESCHUS POLIORHODA, n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen grey mixed with purplish crimson, the vertex 

 of head pure white. Forewing grey irrorated with purplish pink ; some 

 ochreous points on costa ; traces of a pink antemedial line ; a alight dark dis- 

 coidal lunule ; a faint medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a 

 minutely waved postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved below 

 vein 4 and excurved at vein 1 ; traces of a subterminal line ; termen purplish 

 pink ; cilia yellow. Hindwing grey irrorated with purplish pink ; a small 

 black discoidal lunule ; a rather diffused postmedial line defined by whitish 

 on outer side ; an indistinct minutely waved grey subterminal line ; termen 

 purplish pink ; cilia yellow. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Gampola ( Mackwood ), Kandy (Pole). Exp. 14 mill. 

 Type in B. M. • 



Stictofterin/e. 



2298. a. G-yrtona nama, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), vii., p. 492 (1900). 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown and black with a few white scales ; a white 

 stripe on frons and vertex of head ; tibiae and tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous at sides. Forewing dark purplish 

 grey with numerous waved lines ; a more distinct medial line angled in and 

 below cell ; the tufts of scales below middle of cell dark ; the reniform 

 defined by tufts of white and dark scales ; the postmedial line distinct, double, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and below vein 4 very oblique, two black 

 marks and white lunules on it below costa followed by an apical white 



