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and o-ray patch on its inner side from costa to vein 2 ; two fine white 

 lines with o-ray between them along vein 2 from cell to near outer 

 margin ; an obscure submarginal white line strongly dentate inwards 

 at veins 5 and 2, and with a fuscous patch inside its medial portion. 

 Hindwing white tinged with fuscous. 



Habitat— Puttalam, Ceylon (J. Pole). Exp. 16 mm. Type.— In 

 British Museum. 



15506. Selca nigra, n. sp. 



Hindwing with vein 5 obsolete ; antennae of 9 pectinate. $ . Fus- 

 cous-black. Forewiiig irrorated with a few silvery scales ; the 

 basal area darkest ; indistinct sub-basal and antemedial lines ; a 

 fulvous discoidal spot and traces of a waved medial line, traces of irregu- 

 larly-waved postmedial and submarginal lines. Hindwing paler fuscous. 



Habitat.— Sikhim, 1,800 feet (Dudgeon). Exp. 30 mm. Type.— In 

 British Museum. 



agaristim;. 



1583. Mimeusemia ceylonica=2Egocera postica, Wlk., ' Journ. 

 Linn. Soc.,' VI, p. 6, Mimeusemia tara, Swinh., ' Cat. Lep. Hefc.,' Mus. 

 Oxon.j p. 167 Singapore ; Borneo. 



1681. Hadena (?) hastata is an Erastria allied to aurata, Moore. 



noctuim;. 



Trifin^e. 

 1756a. Euplexia hyalophora, n. sp. 



g. Head and thorax olive-green and brown ; abdomen reddish-brown ; 

 the anal tuft fulvous. Forewing olive-green and dark brown ; a 

 sinuous sub-basal olive line defined by black, the area between it and 

 antemedial line green ; the antemedial line black-edged and obtusely 

 angled on vein 1 ; the medial area brown with pale-edged green 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata almost joined on median nervure, a 

 black-edged olive postmedial line incurved below vein 4 and outlined 

 with gray ; the outer area green with pale waved submarginal 

 line ; a brown patch below apex, a marginal series of black lunules. 

 Hindwing dark red-brown with the disk hyaline ; underside with black 

 spot in upper angle of cell. Thorax with a club-shaped process 

 bearing a tuft of long white hair protrusile from the large abdo- 

 minal stigmata. 



Habitat.— Khasis. Exp. 34 mm. Type.— In British Museum. 



