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2258c. EUTELIA CATEPHIPORMIS, n. Sp. 



,y . Head pale red-brown ; palpi dark at base ; thorax and abdomen fuscous- 

 brown. Forewing dark red-brown ; the basal area blackish with traces of 

 waved lines and two more prominent lines on its outer edge angled inwards 

 above vein 1 ; an ochraous discoidal lunule ; a fine medial waved line very 

 strongly bent outwards round the discoidal lunule ; a double similar more 

 prominent postmedial line with small ochreous spot beyond it above vein 1 ; 

 traces of irregularly waved lines on outer area and an obscure olive-yellow 

 and dark fascia across apical area. Hindwing fuscous-black with white patch 

 on basal half of inner area. Underside greyish with numerous minutely 

 dentate dark lines on terminal area. 



Habitat.—'Na.ga. Hills (Doherty). Exp. 30 mill. Type— la Coll., Elwes. 



2274a. Edtelia pictatbix, n. sp. 



Head, thorax and abdomen brown-pink mixed with dark-brown scales ; abdo- 

 men with some blackish patches, the male with dorsal white patch on 4th 

 segment. Forewing pink strongly mixed with dark red-brown scales ; very 

 numerous waved fuscous lines ; double antemedial, medial, and postmedial 

 lines rather more prominent, the 1st strongly curved, the 2nd bent outwards 

 below costa, the 3rd exciirved from below costa to vein 4 ; tufts of bright-red 

 scales in cell near base, at middle and at upper angle ; pale wedge-shaped 

 streaks on median nervure from before middle to the postmedial line, and 

 in submedial interspace from near base to termen ; a short white streak 

 below costa towards apex with an irregular dentate subterminal line from 

 below it to inner margin ; a fine terminal black line and some blackish white- 

 irrorated marks on termen from below apex to below middle, some similar 

 spots on cilia. Hindwing yellowish-white ; the terminal half strongly suffus- 

 ed with fuscous from costa to vein 4, the veins on it black ; the submedian 

 interspace pale ; vein 2 and the inner margin with alternating red and black 

 marks ; cilia bright red-brown with fine pale line at base. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Gampola (Mackwood), Dickoya (Green). Exp. 32 mill. 

 Type— In B. M. 



2290a. SricroPTERA luctuosa, n. sp. 



$. Head and tegulse fuscous-black ; thorax ochreous-brown ; abdomen fus- 

 cous. Forewing fuscous-black, the basal third pale brownish ochreous with a 

 browner patch on it from costa to median nervure traversed by a black sub- 

 costal streak, the antemedial line just inside its outer edge ; the dark area 

 with traces of numerous minutely dentate lines, the subterminal line with 

 two ochreous marks on it below Qosta and one in submedian fold. Hindwing 

 black-brown. 



Hahitat,— Ceylon (Mackwood). Exp. 42 mill. Type— In B. M, 



22906. StICTOPTERA NEGRETINA, n. sp. 



^.Black-brown. Forewing with a purplish tinge; a waved antemedial 

 black line ; a medial line oblique f ron» costa to submedian fold, then erect, 



