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whitish : some blackish scales along termen : cilia ochreous-whitish, -with two 

 suffused brown shades. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 

 Khasis, from August to October ; ten specimens. 

 Pxeudodoxia melanoima, n. sp. 



A $. 12-13 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen dark purplish- 

 fuscous. Forewmgs elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, ter- 

 men very obliquely rounded ; dark purplish -fuscous : cilia rather dark fuscous. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia rather dark fuscous. 

 Khasis, in July and August ; six specimens. 

 Pseudodoxia placida, n. sp. 



$9. 13-16 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous, forehead sometimes 

 tinged with whitish-ochreous. Palpi fuscous, apex of joints more or less 

 tinged with whitish-ochreous. Antennas fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal tuft, 

 ochreous- whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, 

 apex tolerably pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; light fuscous 

 sprinkled with darker, sometimes suffused with darker along costa ; stigmata 

 blackish, plical beneath first discal ; sometimes some indistinct dark fuscous 

 marginal dots round apex : cilia fuscous, sprinkled with whitish points, base 

 paler. Hindwings grey ; cilia rather light grey, base pale ochreous. 

 Madulsima, Ceylon (Vaughan) ; from April to June, ten specimens. 

 Pseudodoxia triastis, n. sp. 



£. 17-21 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second 

 joint suffused with dark fuscous except apex, terminal joint sometimes with 

 some dark fuscous scales towards base. Antennae whitish-ochreous tinged 

 with fuscous. Thorax whitish-ochreous suffused anteriorly with fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; 

 whitish-ochreous, sometimes tinged with fuscous, more or less irregularly and 

 suffusedly irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous ; stigmata rather large, 

 blackish-fuscous, plical beneath first discal ; some more or less marked large 

 cloudy blackish-fuscous dots round posterior part of costa and upper part of 

 termen : cilia whitish-ochreous more or less suffused with light fuscous. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous more or less suffused with grey. 



9 • Head and thorax usually suffused with fuscous. Palpi with terminal 

 joint more or less irrorated with dark fuscous except towards apex. Forewings 

 usually almost wholly suffused with light fuscous and irrorated with dark 

 fuscous ; markings as in $ . Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Madulsima, Maskeliya, Patipola, Ceylon (Vaughan, Pole, Alston) ; from 

 December to June ; twenty-five specimens. There is considerable variability 

 in the development of the dark suffusion, and the sexes are normally dissimi- 

 lar, the $ being so much darker, but the darkest $ is hardly distinguishable 

 from the lightest 9 • Nearly all my examples are from Madulsima, where 

 Mr. Vaughan takes the species in plenty. P. placida, which occurs with it, 

 is smaller, and can always be distinguished by the pointed forewings. 



