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at discal fold and strongly below vein 3 ; a grey snbterminal line defined on 

 each side by fuscous, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing grey suffused with brown. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim, Mergui (Doherty). Exp. 20 mill. Type in B. M. 



2249. d. DlLOPHOTHRIPA BRACHYTORNA, n. sp. 



$ , Hindwing with thin whitish pencil of hair below costa, the cilia slight- 

 ly thickened at tornus but not lobed. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown slightly mixed with grey ; abdomen pale 

 brown. Forewing fuscous brown mixed with grey ; an oblique minutely waved 

 subbasal line, defined by grey on inner side ; the antemedial line obliquely 

 curved, slightly waved and defined by grey on outer side ; two obliquely placed 

 black points beyond it in submedian interspace and two on discocellulars ; 

 postmedial line minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein 7, slightly in- 

 curved at discal fold and strongly below vein 3, defined by grey on inner side ; 

 subterminal line grey, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and ex- 

 curved at middle, a terminal series of black points. Hindwing grey-brown. 



Habitat.— Canara, Karwar (T. R. Bell). Exp. 18 mill. Type in B. Iff. 



2253. Sarrothripa polioph^ea, n. n. 



Sarrothripa nolalella, Hmpsn. Moths., Ind., II., p. 388 (nee Wlk.). 



Habitat, — Assam, Khasis ; Bombay, N. Canara ; Ceylon, Dickoya. 



Acontian^e. 



2186. e. Metaptya endoplaga, n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale brown and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; palpi behind and sides of frons blackish ; metathoracic crest tipped 

 with blackish • fore tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen white dorsally 

 tinged with brown. Forewing white tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous •, a blackish patch on the lobe of inner margin ; traces of a curved 

 antemedial line ; two faint discoidal points ; postmedial line rather diffused, 

 brown defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of dark points, excurved 

 below costa and at middle, then incurved ; some dark points on costa towards 

 apex. Hindwing brownish white with slight dark postmedial line ending in 

 a black point on inner margin, the terminal area suffused with fuscous. 



Habitat.— Madras, Bellary, Ramandrug, 3000' (Campbell). Exp. 22 mill. 

 Type in B. M. 



Under Pseudocalpe insert. Type. 



Arcyophora, Guen. Noct. II. p. 378 (1852), which has 



precedence ... ... ... ... ... longivalvh. 



Setoctena, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon., VII., p. 144» (1863)... ledereri. 



Euxestis, Led. Hor, Soc. Ent. Ross., VI., p. 88 (1869) ... mesogona. 



2655. a. Arcyophora bothrophora, n. sp. 



ft. Antennas with long bristles and cilia ; forewing on underside with fan 

 of scales at upper angle of cell ; veins 6'7 somewhat approximated and form- 

 ing ridges with a narrow groove between them for half their length. 



