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5 . Length 4 mm. ; head small, antennre and legs short and weak, 

 slender, abdomen with Avhitish anal tuft ; wings reduced to minute 

 rudiments. 



Haputale, Ceylon (Green) ; 9 S , "-^ 2 ^ hred in February. Larva in a 

 sub-globose egg-shaped case of silk covered with grains of refuse, feeding 

 on lichens ; length of case 8-10 mm., width 5-7 mm. 



MallobatJira cellulata, n. sp. 



(S . 12-1 o mm. Head and palpi whitish-ochreous-yellowish. Antennae 

 dark fuscous, ciliations 4. Thorax and abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen obliquely 

 rounded ; 6 present ; dark purple-fuscous, cpsta sharply spotted with 

 pale ochreous-yellowish, rest of wing wholly strewn with obscure 

 suffused whitish-ochreous dots : cilia dark purple-fuscous, on costa barred 

 with pale yellowish on spots, on termen with a basal series of pale yellow- 

 ish spots, round apex with tips ochreous-whitish. Hindwings with 6 

 present ; rather dark bronzy -fuscous ; cilia fuscous, paler towards tornus. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January (Pole) ; seven specimens. 



Elegistis, n. g. 



Head rough ; ocelli present ; tongue absent. Antennte i, in cT biciliated 

 with long fascicles, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi 

 moderate, porrected, clothed with dense loose scales, obtuse. Maxillary 

 palpi obsolete. Posterior tibite clothed with long hairs above. Forewino-s 

 with 2 from towards angle, 7 to apex, 8 and 9 short-stalked, 11 from before 

 middle, Hindwings under 1, elongate-ovate, cilia f ; 5 absent, other veins 

 separate, nearly parallel. 



Elegistis cunictdmis, n. sp. 



c? 2 • 10-13 mm. Head and thorax gre3^ spinkled with grey-whitish 

 and blackish. Palpi blackish sprinkled with grey-whitish. Antennal 

 ciliations of c? 5. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderate, 

 costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquelj^ rounded ; purplish- 

 fuscous Buffusedly irrorated with blackish ; a moderate rather curved 

 fuscous-whitish fascia at ^, another at § interrupted in disc, and a band of 

 undefined cloudy spots towards termen, but these are always more or less 

 obscured by dark fuscous irroration, and sometimes wholly obsolete and 

 merged in ground colour : cilia dark purple-fuscous sprinkled with whitish 

 points. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous, purplish-tinged. 



Maskeliya and Peradeniya, Ceylon (Green, Pole) ; in October, five speci- 

 mens. Bred from larvae tunnelling dead wood, making long external tubes 

 of silk and refuse (Green). 



Thisizima bubalopa, n. sp. 



c? 14-16 mm., $ 20 mm. Head ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, second 

 joint dark fuscous except towards apex. Antennae pale ochreous. Thorax 

 dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen light fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa 



