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nearly straight, rather oblique : 7 to apex ; pale yellow-ochreous, more or less 

 sprinkled with dark brownish, especially on apical third ; base of costa suffused 

 with dark fuscous ; stigmata dark fuscous, plical rather obliquely beyond first 

 discal : cilia pale yellow-ochreous. Hindwings pale shining ochreous, tinged 

 with fuscous posteriorly ; cilia pale yellow-ochreous. 



Khasis,in July and August ; four specimens. 



Cryptolechia tyrochyta, n. sp. 



£. 19-20 mm. Head, antennae and thorax light yellow-ochreous. Palpi 

 ochreous-yellowish, second joint with scales roughly expanded above towards 

 apex, irrorated or suffused with rather dark fuscous except towards apex. 

 Abdomen grey, anal tuft ochreous-yellowish. Forewings elongate, moderate, 

 costa gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique; 

 7 to apex ; light yellow-ochreous ; first discal stigma absent or represented 

 by two or three blackish scales, second more or less well-marked, blackish ; 

 in one specimen a few dark fuscous scales on tornus : cilia light yellow- 

 ochreous. Hindwings grey ; cilia ochreous-yellowish. 



Cuddapah, 4,000 feet (Campbell) ; three specimens. 



Cryptolechia aganopis, Meyr. 



£. 15-19 mm., $ 19-26 mm. Forewing with 7 to apex (not termen as 

 stated) ; varying from pale brownish-ochreous to light brown ; plical stigma in 

 A hardly beyond first discal, in $ obliquely beyond first discal, sometimes 

 obsolete. Hindwings fuscous or pale fuscous. 



Maskeliya, Madulsima, Kandy, Puttalam, Trincomali, Ceylon ; from May 

 to February. 



Cryptolechia orthotoma, Meyr. 



£. 14-17 mm., $ 15-21 mm. Forewings varying from pale-ochreous to 

 light fuscous ; stigmata smaller in $. 



Maskeliya, Peradeniya, Matale, Galle, Ceylon ; from February to August, 



and in November 



Cryptolechia dochcea; n. sp. 



<J$. 14-20 mm. Head, antennae and thorax whitish-ochreous, variably 

 tinged Avith grey. Palpi ochreous -whitish, second joint with scales roughly 

 expanded above towards apex, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, anal 

 tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen obliquely rounded ; 7 to apex ; pale greyish-ochreous, sometimes tinged 

 with brownish, more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous ; stigmata blackish, 

 discal well-marked, plical obliquely beyond first discal, sometimes little 

 marked ; a terminal series of small dark fuscous dots : cilia pale greyish- 

 ochreous, with two more or less indicated fuscous lines. Hindwings light 

 grey ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous, with one or two grey shades. 



Maskeliya, Madulsima, Maturatta, Hakgala, Eambukkhana, Polgahawela, 

 Patipola, Ceylon (Green, Alston, Vaughan) ; in May, June, and from Septem- 

 ber to February, seventeen specimens. Smaller than aganopis, and recognis- 



