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Puttalam, Ceylon (Pole) ; Gooty (Campbell) ; Konkan (Young) ; in De- 

 cember, six specimens. Larval case elongate, nearly flat, parallel-sided 

 (12 mm. X 4 mm.), both ends rounded ; composed of silk and grains of 

 refuse, but entirely coated with silk outside ; sent without note of habits 

 (Campbell), possibly a wood-feeder, or on dead leaves, but the case is not 

 suitable for a lichen-feeder. 



Mach(eroptens ceramina, n. sp. 



(5 $ . 30-39 mm. Head brownish. Palpi brownish irrorated with dark 

 fuscous. Thorax dark brown or dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Poste- 

 rior tibiae in S with extremely long expansible fine greyish hairs. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 sinuate, oblique ; 7 separate, to costa, 9 and 10 remote ; dark brown, 

 suflfusedly irrorated with dark fuscous or sometimes partially with blackish, 

 costa sometimes obscurely darker-spotted : cilia brown, mixed with dark 

 brown and sprinkled with pale ochreous. Hindwings rather dark fuscous ; 

 cilia fuscous; 



Maskeliya, Peradeniya, and Bogawantalawa, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray, 

 Green) ; in October, November, and May, seven specimens. 



Mac]icero])teris phenax , n. sp. 



{Machceropteris receptella, Wals. {nee Walk.), Moore Lep. Ceyl. Ill, 502, 

 pi. ccviii, 14.) 



(S $ . 28-36 mm. Head brownish. Palpi dark brown, scales with 

 ochreous-whitish tips. Thorax dark brown. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex much produced, acute, 

 termen sinuate, oblique ; 2 and 3 approximated or sometimes stalked, 7 

 separate, to apex, 9 and 10 remote ; brown or purplish-fuscous, irrorated 

 with dark fuscous, with some bluish-leaden scales, without defined mark- 

 ings : cilia lilac-brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous, towards base 

 yellow-ochreous, at apex with a projection of dark fuscous scales. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous, base pale 

 ochreous. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon (Green) ; in August and December, four specimens. 



1 am indebted to Mr. J. Hartley Durrant for the information that this was 

 the species on which the genus Machceroptej-is was founded, and not the 

 true receptella, Walk. 



Machferoptevis liorrifera, n. sp. 



S . 22 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. 

 Posterior tibise with very long fuscous hairs. Forewings elongate, costa 

 moderately arched, apex pointed, produced, termen sinuate, oblique ; 



2 and 3 connate, 7 to costa, separate, 9 and 10 approximated at base ; 

 dark purplish-fuscous, raised scales with a bluish-leaden gloss : cilia dark 

 purplish-fuscous. Hindwings and cilia fuscous. 



Sikkim, in August (Dudgeon) ; one specimen. 

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