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849a. BlRTHAMA diffusa, n. sp. 

 9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with whitish and rufous 

 hair ; abdomen with some of the lateral scales tipped with black. Fore- 

 wing rufous, with whitish patches at base of inner area and outer angle, 

 and a large semi-circular apical patch extending down to vein 3, and 

 bounded on inner side by a fuscous line ; a diffused black medial band 

 broad at costa, narrowing to inner margin. Hindwing black-brown 

 with some whitish near anal angle. 

 Habitat. — Kha'sis. Exp. 36 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



862a. Paeasa p^eeea, n. sp. (PI. A, fig. 10.) 



9 . Pale gray-brown ; vertex of head and thorax bright yelloW- 

 green. Forewing with gray-brown basal patch wide at costa, narrow- 

 ing to inner margin, and bounded by a dark line ; medial half bright 

 yellow-green bounded by a curved minutely-waved dark line ; outer 

 area gray-brown. Hindwing gray-brown tinged with fuscous. 



Habitat.— Puttalam, Ceylon (J. Pole). Exp. 32 mm. Type.- — In 

 British Museum. 



880a. Teichogyia metamel^ena, n. sp. 



£. Head, thorax, and anal tuft reddish-brown ; abdomen fuscous. 

 Forewing reddish-brown slightly irrorated with fuscous, Hindwing 

 fuscous-black. 



Habitat.— Sikhim, 1,800 (Dudgeon). Exp. 12 mm. Type.— In 

 British Museum. 



882a. Ar^eogyia cupreata, n. sp. 



9 . Cupreous-brown tinged and irrorated with fuscous. Forewing 

 with a bright cupreous tinge ; a dark sinuous submarginal line, the 

 area beyond it with a purple gloss ; a prominent black marginal line 

 becoming obsolete near outer angle ; cilia yellow at tips. Hindwing 

 dark brown ; cilia pale yellow with a dark line through them. 



Habitat, — Kha'sis. Exp, 16 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



884a. Cania notodonta, n. sp. 



$. Antennse bipectinate with rather short branches to apex ; fore- 

 wing with scale-tooth on middle of inner margin. Pale silky yellow- 

 brown ; forewing with series of dark points from costa before apex to 

 end of scale-tooth on inner margin. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 30 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 



