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with 3 and 4 stalked ; rather light grey ; cilia whitish-grey, with darker 

 subbasal shade. 



Khasis ; in June, two specimens. 



Ancylis rostrifera, n. sp. 



c5' . 11-12 mm. Head rather dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 terminal half white. Thorax fuscous mixed with white posteriorly, shoulders 

 marked with blackish. Forewings elongate, costa rather strongly arched 

 anteriorly, slightly sinuate posteriorly, apex falcate, termen strongly 

 excavated beneath it ; ochreous-white, dorsal half mixed with leaden-grey ; 

 costa anteriorly marked with small scattered blackish spots ; lower half of 

 basal patch formed by four irregular transverse blackish or dark fuscous 

 marks ; posterior area from beyond aniddle to near termen largely suffused 

 with ferruginous-brown, somewhat mixed with blackish and posteriorly 

 marked with leaden-metallic, its costal edge black strigulated with white, 

 more strongly black posteriorly ; terminal area white spotted with leaden- 

 metallic, with a black terminal line, apex ferruginous-brown : cilia ochreous 

 whitish. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; grej', thinly scaled in disc ; 

 cilia grey, tips paler. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; in October, two specimens. 



Ancylis ancorata, n. sp. 



§. 12-13 mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous, forehead mixed with 

 blackish, face mixed with blackish and margined with whitish. Palpi with 

 long hairs, whitish, spotted with blackish suffusion. Thorax brownish- 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex falcate-promi- 

 nent, termen abruptly concave beneath it ; ochreovis-brown, sufiused with 

 whitish-ochreous towards anterior half of costa ; costa strigulated with 

 black and on posterior half with whitish ; a grey slightly brownish-tinged 

 streak, edged above by a pale or whitish-tinged line, running along dorsum 

 from i to tornus and continued to middle of termen, dilated on tornus and 

 termen, marked with some blackisli suffusion before tornus ; a triangular 

 leaden-metallic mark before termen resting on extremity of this streak ; 

 sometimes a few black scales in disc towards middle ; a leaden-metallic 

 striga from § of costa to near termen beneath apex ; a white strigula on 

 costa near apex, and a leaden-metallic terminal mark beneath it : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, above apex ochreous-brown, beneath it with spot of 

 whitish suffusion. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ;. grey, darker post- 

 eriorly ; cilia grey. 



Kegalle, Ceylon (Alston) ; Konkan (Young) ; three specimens. 



Herpystis iKillidula, n. sp. 



S $ . 10-14 mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal half infuscated. 

 Thorax ochreous whitish. Forewings elongate, somewhat contracted 

 posteriorly, costa gently arched, without fold, apex obtuse, termen slightly 

 sinuate, rather oblique ; ochreous-whitish or pale whitish-ochreous, with 



