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stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex ; rather dark fuscous, faintly purple- 

 tinged ; stigmata cloudy, blackish, plical beneath first discal, larger, suffused, 

 preceded by some white scales ; a pale whitish-ochreous spot on costa at £ ; 

 a terminal series of indistinct dark fuscous dots : cilia pale brownish with 

 rows of whitish-ochreous points, basal third whitish-ochreous, barred with 

 rather dark fuscous on costa, tips and a patch beneath tornus mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Maskeliya and Puttalam, Ceylon (Pole) ; N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome); 

 from December to February and in May, five specimens. 



Brachmia hapalyntis, n. sp. 



J § . 10-12 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, sometimes tinged 

 or sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, second joint sprinkled 

 with fuscous. Antennee |, pale ochreous suffusedly ringed with dark 

 fuscous, in S simple. Abdomen light grey. Posterior legs pale whitish- 

 ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 2 and 

 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 9 sometimes out of 7 near base; 

 pale ochreous, irregularly clouded with brownish and sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous ; stigmata moderately large, round, black, edged with white, 

 plical beneath first discal ; a terminal series of black dots : cilia whitish- 

 ochreous, basal half obscurely barred with brownish. Hindwings pale grey ; 

 cilia pale whitish-ochreous tinged with grey. 



Puttalam, Ceylon (Pole^l ; N ^oorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome) ; in May and 

 December, six specimens. 



Brachmia sigillatrix, Meyr. 



Cochin ; Kanara. 



Brachmia autonoma, Meyr. 



Cochin ; Pumeah, Bengal ; Chagos Island. 



Brachmia episticta, Meyr. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon. 



Brachmia carphodes, Meyr. 



Khasis. 



Brachmia dolosa, n. sp. 



<$ 2 • 10-12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, 

 second joint suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous except apex. Antennae 

 |, whitish-ochreous suffusedly dotted with dark fuscous, ciliations in S f • 

 Thorax whitish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Posterior legs ochreous-whitish sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen faintly sinuate, very oblique ; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to termen ; whitish-ochreous, more or less sprinkled with brown- 

 ish and dark fuscous ; stigmata formed of blackish irroration, plical rather 



