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and excurved again above inner margin ; an indistinct -waved subterminal 

 line ; a series of black points just before termen and a crennlate terminal line. 

 Hindwing with black point at lower angle of cell ; traces of a sinuous medial 

 line, dentace postmedial line with dark and white points at the veins, a series 

 of black points before termen and a crenulate terminal line ; underside greyish 

 with dark discoidal lunule and sinuotis postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Travancore, Pirmad (R. S. Imray). Exp. 44 mill. Type in B. M. 



PyRALIN/E. 



Cledeobia molbavica. Exp. subsp. with the ground color black-brown. 



2564. a. Acantholipes eetracta, n. sp. 



9 . Head and thorax grey mixed with some black ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous brown. Forewing 

 grey irrorated with black-brown ; a subbasai black-brown spot on costa and 

 small spot below the cell ; an oblique antemedial band from costa to submedian 

 fold expanding somewhat at extremities and with slight line from it to inner 

 margin ; a triangular spot on middle of costa ; the postmedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold and produced as a short fascia 

 to discocellulars, incurved below vein 4 and with a diffused line on its inner 

 side ; some black striae on costa towards apex ; a dentate subterminal line 

 angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; some brown suffusion on 

 terminal area from apex to vein 4 ; a terminal series of blackish striae. Hind- 

 wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale at tips ; the underside pale, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Haputale (Mackwood). Exp. 30 mill. Type in B. M. 



2564. b. Acantholipes bisignata, n. sp. 



9. Head and thorax and abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown; 

 tarsi ringed with fuscous. Forewing ochreous white irrorated with brown ; a 

 conical brown antemedial patch on costa with traces of a line arising from it 

 excurved below cell and angled inwards on vein 1 ; a semicircular brown medial 

 patch on costa with brown oblique line arising from it, incurved in discal fold ; 

 a black point at lower angle of cell ; a curved series of dark points on the veins 

 also arising from the costal patch.; some black striae on costa towards apex ; a 

 pale minutely waved subterminal line defined on each side by brown and 

 incurved at submedian :fold ; a brown patch on apical half of terminal area 

 extending:to inner side of subterminal line ; a terminal series of small black spots. 

 Hindwing pale ochreous suffused with brown, especially on terminal area ; 

 the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 spot, curved postmedial series of points, traces of a subterminal line, a terminal 

 series of small black spots. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Haldamulla (Mackwood). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B. M. 



P. 533. Under Thermesia insert Sect. Tiruvaca, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), 

 vii., p. 497 (1901') type. 



Subcostalis. Forewing of male with the membrane in, beyond, above and 

 below cell distorted, vein 2 strongly curved downwards, the lower angle of cell 



