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prominent straight oblique yellow and rufous postmedial line ; an indis- 

 tinct submarginal series of black points ; cilia of both wings rufous 

 with fine black line at base and near tips, which are gray. 



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

 2753a. Egnasia. venusta, n. sp. 



9 . Chocolate-brown ; head and thorax clothed with dark and pale 

 brown scales ; a large metathorax tuft ; abdomen with tuft on first 

 segment. Forewing with the base dark and red-brown with bright 

 ferruginous spots below cell, and on inner margin - f a black speck in cell ; 

 a waved fuscous medial line angled below costa; reniform olive-green with 

 fine blue and black edge, and with olive-green and pale yellow oblique 

 fascia from it to apex ; postmedial line fine, black and yellow, sinuous and 

 sharply incurved towards the reniform, then oblique ; an indistinct waved 

 submarginal line incurved towards the reniform; a subapical black lunule 

 and series of black points just inside the margin. Hindwing with oblique 

 antemedial line ; black speck at lower angle of cell ; sinuous black and 

 yellow postmedial line ; obscure waved submarginal line with black marks 

 on it near anal angle ; a series of black points just iuside the margin. 

 Habitat. — Khasis. Exp. 36 mm. Type. — In British Museum. 

 2763b. Capnodes lacteicosta, n. sp. (PI. A, Fig. 23.) 



g. Head reddish ; collar yellowish-white ; thorax and abdomen dark 

 red ; the latter with the last three segments whitish ; wings dark red. 

 Forewing with broad yellowish-white costal fascia ; a large oblique 

 whitish reniform stigma ; an incurved whitish postmedial line angled 

 below costa and at vein 5, with a large yellowish-white patch beyond it,, 

 covering the whole outer area except a triangular red patch on outer 

 margin below apex, the patch bounded above by yellowish, and traversed 

 by a whitish line parallel to the postmedial line, and another sub- 

 marginal and strongly incurved below vein 2. Hindwing with a similar 

 large patch on anal half of outer area, and a small whitish apical patch. 



Habitat. — Ukuwella, Ceylon. Exp. 24 mm. Type,— In British 

 Museum. 



2771a. Diomea lichenosa, n. sp. 



$. Head and collar chestnut; thorax and abdomen dark red-brown \ 

 a tuft of large metallic black scales on metathorax. Forewing dark 

 fuscous red-brown wholly suffused, except the basal and apical areas, 

 and a small patch at outer angle with pale bluish-gray (fading to 

 dirty gray) and bounded by the highly-curved minutely- waved 



