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bars. Abdomen black at base beneath. Forewings elongate, costa gently 

 arched, without fold, apex round-pointed, prominent, termen abruptly 

 concave-indented beneath it, then somewhat obliquely rounded ; 3 and 4 

 closely approximated throvighout, 6 closely approximated to 7 ; grey 

 suffusedly irrorated with white ; costa dark fuscous, with pairs of whitish 

 strigulse ; basal patch irregularly suffused with brown, more or less strigu- 

 lated with blackish, on dorsum reaching to middle, outer edge obtusely 

 angulated below middle ; central fascia slender, ochreous-brown, not 

 reaching dorsum, crossed in middle by a black streak extended almost 

 to apex ; some blue-leaden strigpe from costa posteriorly ; ocellus enclosed 

 by two leaden-metallic streaks : cilia grey irrorated with whitish, with 

 dark fuscous apical patch. Hindwings with 8 and 4 stalked ; pale grey- 

 darker at apex : cilia pale grey, costal cilia thickened. Forewings on 

 undersurface with rather broad suffused dark fuscous streak along costa 

 from base to near apex. 



Khasis ; in October, two specimens. 



Acroclita cJieradota, n. sp. 



6 $ . 10-11 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous. Palpi pale, ochreous, 

 hairs beneath suffused with whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa gently arched, in S without fold, apex round-pointed, rather 

 prominent, termen concave beneath it ; light brownish-ochreous, 

 with strong violet purple iridescence, irrorated with ferruginous-brownish 

 except towards costa anteriorly : a blotch of irregular blackish strigula- 

 tion extending on dorsum from near base to middle, and reaching 

 more than half across wing ; costa finely strigulated with blackish ; an 

 oblique suffused ferruginous-brown mark from costa beyond middle ; some 

 ferruginous-brown suffusion on costa towards apex, including a whitish 

 strigula near apex, sometimes followed by a blackish dot, apical prominence 

 margined beneath with whitish : cilia brownish-ochreous, beneath apex 

 with a whitish bar. Hindwings with 8 and 4 stalked ; grey, thinly scaled 

 in disc, darker on veins and posteriorly ; cilia grey. 



Puttalam, Ceylon (Pole); Pusa (Lefroy) ; in March and April, two speci- 

 mens. Larva feeding in rolled leaves of Ficus religiosa ( Lefroy j. 



Acroclita grypodes, n. sp. 



S. 17 mm. Head pale ochreous, face ochreous-whitish. Palpi greyish- 

 ochreous, terminal joint and apex of second whitish. Thorax brownish, 

 with whitish-ochreous dorsal stripe edged with dark fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, without fold, apex falcate-prominent, termen- 

 semicircularly excavated beneath it ; ochreous-brown ; costal edge dark 

 fuscous, with fine obscure oblique strigulse of whitish irroration ; a darker 

 brown longitudinal band from base of dorsum to apex of wing, edged above 

 with ochreous-whitish suffusion from before middle to near apex ; dorsum 

 dotted with blackish ; a streak of whitish suffusion along dorsum from base 



