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whitish, tinged with brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous ; three 

 moderately large roundish fuscous spots in disc at \, ± , and |, sprinkled 

 with darker, first smaller and less marked ; a suffused similar patch 

 extending along termen : cilia fuscous-whitish, irregularly sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings grey ; cdia whitish. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in September and October (Pole) ; two specimens. 

 OECOPHOKID^. 



Syllochitis, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales ; ocelli absent ; tongue developed. Antennae 

 i, in <$ serrate, minutely ciliated, basal joint moderate, with pecten of 

 scales. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint much thickened with 

 dense scales, slightly rough beneath, terminal joint shorter than second, 

 with dense posterior scale-projection on lower half, acute. Maxillary palpi 

 very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Thorax with double posterior 

 crest. Posterior tibiae rough-scaled above. Forewings with rough scales 

 on surface, 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex (indefinite), 11 

 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal-ovate, cilia | ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 

 somewhat approximated to 4, 6 and 7 nearly parallel. 



A development of Depressaria, with relationship to Izatha. 



Syllochitis petrcea, n. sp. 



S 2 • 17-22 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, often sprinkled with 

 pale ochreous points, face irrorated or suffused with whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi purple-fuscous, variably mixed with blackish and sometimes with 

 whitish-ochreous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa slightly 

 arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, somewhat oblique ; dark 

 purple-fuscous, with scattered rough black scales ; more or less pale ochreous 

 irroration towards costa anteriorly ; first discal stigma represented by two 

 very obliquely placed small tufts of black and whitish-ochreous scales 

 second by a larger mostly black transverse tuft; a curved patch of undefined 

 brownish suffusion in disc posteriorly ; an undefined black terminal line 

 interrupted with whitish-ochreous : cilia brown tinged with purplish, with 

 rows of whitish-ochreous points, Hindwings thinly scaled, bronzy-fuscous, 

 veins darker; cilia concolorous. 



Maskeliya, Madulsima, Matale, Wellawaya, Kegalle, and Puttalam 

 Ceylon (Green, Pole, Alston) ; from November to February, twelve 

 specimens. 



(To be continued.) 





