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Habitat. — Ceylon, Peradenyia, Nawala Pltiya (G-reen) ; Hambantota. 

 Puttalam (Pole). Exp. 10-11 mill. Type in B. M. 



2887. e. Ae^eoptebon goniophoea, n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen grey mixed with brown, the last tinged with red- 

 dish brown. Forewing grey irrorated and suffused with brown ; the subbasal 

 line represented by a black point on costa, the antemedial line by a triangular 

 brown mark on costa with oblique somewhat sinuous line from it to inner 

 margin ; a black discoidal spot with triangular brown mark above it on costa and 

 oblique line from it to inner margin ; an indistinct postmedial line obliquely 

 curved from costa to vein 3 where it is sharply angled, then incurved; subtermi- 

 nal line grey defined on each side by brown, obliquely curved from costa to 

 vein 4, incurved at submedian fold ; a terminal series of dark-brown points- 

 Hindwing grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a black 

 discoidal spot with diffused black between it and inner margin ; a sinuous black 

 postmedial line ; the terminal area darker with a terminal series of black points. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Nawalapitiya (G-reen), Hambautota (Pole). Exp. 12 mill. 

 Type in B. M. 



2887./. Ae^eoptebom xanthopis, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax whitish slightly tinged with rufous ; abdomen with 

 the basal segment whitish tinged with rufous, the terminal segments black, the 

 anal tuft white. Forewing leaden grey partly suffused with black to the post- 

 medial line ; the basal inner area whitish ; an indistinct curved, waved, black 

 antemedial line ; a black discoidal point with diffused band from it to inner 

 margin ; an outwardly oblique postmedial line, slightly angled inward at vein 3 ; 

 terminal area whitish with some blackish points on costa ; a conical fulvous 

 subterminal patch on costa ; some terminal dark points. Hindwing with the 

 basal area whitish with some black subbasal scales ou it, the rest of wing 

 leaden grey with diffused black band on its inner edge ; a small fulvous dis- 

 coidal tuft of scales ; a diffused black subterminal band. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Haldamulla (Mackwood). Exp. 12 mill. Type in B. M. 



2894. 6. Talapa biethama, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (7), xv., p. 161 (1905). 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous; palpi blackish 

 towards base, forewing ochreous greyish irrorated with fuscous brown ; the 

 costa and medial area except below costa suffused with brown ; a velvety black 

 triangular subbasal patch between cell and inner margin, bounded by the 

 sinuous yellowish antemedial line which is obsolete in cell ; excurved and 

 brown defined by yellowish on inner side at costa ; a black point in middle of 

 oell ; an inverted comma-shaped white mark on a rounded black patch at lower 

 angle of cell ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line angled outwards 

 below costa, then oblique, sinuous, black and prominent, some brown suffusion 

 beyond it extending to apex and to termen at middle ; a faint waved whitish 

 line just beyond the postmedial line and a similar subterminal line incurved near 

 discal and submedian folds and with oblique black streak beyond it from apex 

 and spot before it above vein 6 ; a waved brown terminal line. Hindwing 



