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Gracilaria syrphetias, n. sp. 



$ $. 14-15 mm. Head and thorax light metallic greyish-bronze, face paler. 

 Palpi pale ochreous, suffusedly banded with blackish irroration. Antennas 

 pale ochreous ringed with blackish. Abodmen shining dark grey, apex whitish- 

 ochreous. Middle tibias bronzy-grey, thickened above with blackish scales, 

 tarsi ochreous-whitish. Forewings sublinear, parallel-sided, moderately point- 

 ed ; ochreous, densely and irregularly strigulated and mottled throughout 

 with dark purple-fuscous : cilia dark grey, round apex with rows of blackish 

 points. Hindwings and ciiia dark grey. 



Four specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in July and October (Pole). Very 

 similar to the Australian G. eurycnewM, but darker and much narrower-winged, 

 and without the long hairpencils beside abdomen. 

 Argyresthia icterias, n. sp. 



$9- 8-10 mm. Head white, face tinged with ochreous-yellowish. Palpi 

 light ochreous. Antennas whitish-ochreous ringed with blackish. Thorax 

 white, patagia golden-bronze. Abdomen pale silvery grey. Forewings narrow, 

 elongate-lanceolate ; 7 and 8 separate ; whitish-brown, tinged with coppery- 

 purplish, darker towards base, strigulated throughout with dark fuscous ; an 

 irregular attenuated white streak along dorsum to tornus, in 9 little defined 

 and suffused into ground colour, strigulated with dark fuscous, interrupted 

 opposite middle of wing by a subquadrate dark fuscous spot ; sometimes some 

 irregular white marks along termen, and dots on costa posteriorly : cilia 

 whitish-grey, round apex purplish-tinged and with rows of black points. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Sixteen specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from February to June (Pole, de 

 Mowbray). 

 Xyrosaris maligna, n. sp. 



$9- 12-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white, finely irrorated with 

 fuscous or dark fuscous. Antennas and abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, 

 very narrow, gradually narrowed from before middle, apex round-pointed ; 

 light brownish, irregularly or wholly suffused with grey and whitish scales finely 

 tipped with blackish, and strewn with minute raised black dots ; indistinct 

 spots of dark fuscous suffusion on costa and dorsum before middle, and on 

 dorsum towards tornus ; an interrupted transverse ridge of blackish scales at 

 | ; apex brownish with a slight reddish tinge : cilia grey, round apex with 

 several black lines. Hindwings dark grey, basal third and cell transparent ; 

 cilia grey. 



Six specimens, Maskeliya and Puttalam, Ceylon, in March, May, October 

 and November (Pole). 

 Prays peperitis, n. sp. 



$ 9. 9-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale grey, more or less mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Antennas dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey, apex pale greyish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 stalked; whitish, irrorated 



