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and sometimes suffused with grey, and coarsely strigulated more or less closely 

 throughout with dark fuscous or blackish : cilia grey, Hindwings rather 

 thinly scaled, grey, becoming dark fuscous towards apex ; cilia grey. Fore- 

 wings beneath irregularly streaked or spotted with raised black scales towards 



Seven specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from March to May, and in October and 

 November (Pole). 



Glyphipteryx argyromis, n. sp. 



$9- 6-7 mm. Head and thorax shining greyish-bronze. Palpi with six 

 whorls of black white-tipped scales. Antennas dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, 

 beneath white. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, 

 termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; 7 and 8 separate ; shining golden-bronze ; basal 

 % occupied by a shining bluish-silvery-whitish patch, followed on dorsal half by 

 some blackish suffusion ; five bluish -silvery black-edged streaks from posterior, 

 half of costa, and two from dorsum towards tornus, nearly or quite uniting 

 with first two costal streaks, first resulting fascia angulated, second slightly 

 curved ; a bluish-silvery dot on tornus, and one on termen beneath apex : cilia 

 grey, with blackish basal and postmedian -shades, indented beneath apex, 

 on costal streaks spotted with white. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia 



grey. 



Ten specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, from February to April (Pole, de Mow- 

 bray.) The blue-whitish basal patch i.s a unique distinguishing character. 



TlNEIDiE. 



Opostega euryntis, n. sp. 



$ . 7 mm. Head, palpi and thorax white. Antenna) ochreous-whitish, 

 basal joint white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings lanceolate ; white ; 

 a broad dark fuscous transverse median band occupying more than | of wing, 

 somewhat broadest on dorsum : cilia white. Hindwings and cilia pale 

 grey. 



One specimen, Coorg (3,500 feet), in June (Newcome). 



Opostega epactcea, n. sp. 



^ 9. 6-7 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi and abdomen whitish och- 

 reous. Antennae whitish-ochreous, basal joint white. Forewings lanceolate • 

 white ; a dark grey dot on dorsum before middle of wing, sometimes faint ; 

 a more or less defined dark fuscous line along apical fourth of costa : cilia 

 ochreous-whitish, tinged with fuscous round apex, with two oblique blackish- 

 fuscous lines in costal cilia directed forward to apex. Hindwing and cilia 

 whitish-ochreous. 



Six specimens, Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February and March (Pole). 



Opostega mach&rias, n. sp. 



9. 6 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi pale whitish-ochreous. Antennas 



ochreous-whitish, basal joint white. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings 



lanceolate ; white ; a slender outwardly oblique somewhat incurved dark 



brown streak from middle of dorsum, reaching more than half across wing 



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