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and a black speok below vein 2. Hindwing white with broad black 

 marginal band from costa to vein 2, and a spot at vein 1. 



Habitat.-— Puttalam, Ceylon (J. Pole). Exp. 24 mm. Type.— In 

 British Museum. 



2218a. Barasa metalophota, n. sp. 

 Hindwing of male with fringe of hair below the cell on underside. 

 Forewing with the areole very short ; mid and hind tibiae fringed with 

 long hair. Head and thorax gray and black ; collar rufous ; abdomen 

 brownish with black dorsal tuft at base. Forewing whitish irrorated 

 with black ; diffused patches of brown and black on basal area ; an ante- 

 medial sinuous black line very oblique from costa to vein 2, on which it 

 runs out to a narrow loop, then sharply retracted tomedian nervure ; re- 

 niform large black-edged and with a black lunule on olive centre ; the 

 postmedial line double, waved, very much bent outwards beyond the cell 

 then retracted to the loop of antemedial line, some fuscous beyond it 

 on inner margin ; some patches of fuscous on outer half of costa and on 

 outer margin towards apex ; a sinuous submarginal series of blaok spots 

 and a marginal series. Hindwing brownish-fuscous. 

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



2235a. Hypoihripa polia, n. sp. 

 #. Gray. Forewing with two waved antemedial lines slightly angled 

 inwards below median nervure and obsolescent towards inner margin ; 

 an oblique medial line, slightly incurved ; a discocellular speck ; the 

 postmedial line strongly excurved beyond cell and minutely dentate ; an 

 irregularly-waved submarginal line. Hindwing fuscous. 



Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 22 mm. Type,— In British Museum. 



Genus Dilophothripa, nOv. 

 Type. — D. chrysorrhcea, Hampson. 

 Range. — Assam. 



Palpi upturned; the second joint broadly scaled ; the third well de- 

 veloped and naked ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; abdomen with 



large double anal tuft. Forewing narrow ; 

 the costa arched towards apex ; the outer 

 margin oblique ; vein 7 from cell, 8, 9 

 and 10 stalked from well before angle. 

 Dilophothripa chnjscnlHRa + $a Hindwing with the outer margin 



