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with oblique black striga on a white marjr before them above inner margin ; 

 a series of blackish points just before termen ; cilia whitish with blackish 

 line near tips from apex to discal fold ; the underside whitish suffused with 

 rufous, traces of waved red medial and postmedial lines, and of a waved 

 white subterminal line defined on inner side by brown and on outer side 

 towards costa, a terminal series of black lunules. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Kegalle (Alston). JE.vp. 18 mill. Type in B. M. 



30086. HyPENAGONIA FLAVISIGNA, n. Sp. 



Palpi projecting about one and a half times length of head. 



2 . Head, thorax and abdomen dark-brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 with oblique pale band on 2nd joint. Forewing dark-brown mixed with 

 grey ; a slight dark subbasal line, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique ; a slight dark antemedial line, obliquely excurved from costa to 

 median nervure, then oblique ; an oblique diffused medial black band from 

 upper angle of cell to inner margin ; a minute whitish discoidal lunule ; 

 postmedial line indistinct and whitish on costal half, yellowish on inner 

 half, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, a irregular 

 yellow mark with slight black marks on its edges beyond it between veins 

 6 and 4, and some white points on costa ; a subterminal series of small 

 triangular black spots with white strise on their inner side ; cilia mixed 

 with white at tips. Hindwing grey and yellowish thickly irrorated with 

 dark-brown , a black medial band from upper angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; a maculate black postmedial line with some yellow before it ; 

 an indistinct blackish subterminal line ; a series of black strise slightly 

 defined on inner side by grey just before termen ; a fine black terminal 

 line ; cilia mixed with white at tips ; the underside white mixed with 

 some yellow and thickly irrorated with black, a small black discoidal spot, 

 medial and postmedial lines, and diffused subterminal shade. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Kalutava (Alston). Exp. 16 mill. Type in B. M. 



3008c. Hypenagonia longipalpis, n. sp. 



Palpi projecting about three times length of head, the 3rd joint 

 upturned and tufted with hair at middle. 



Head, thorax and abdomen yellowish mixed with rufous and a few black 

 scales ; palpi with oblique black line near extremity of 2nd joint, the 3rd 

 joint with black band at middle ; tegulse with some black at tips ; tarsi 

 ringed with black. Forewing yellowish mixed with rufous and irrorated 

 with black ; a slight waved black subbasal line from costa to median 

 nurvure ; a fine minutely waved black antemedial line ; a brown medial 

 band edged by slight dark lines, the outer edge slightly angled outwards at 

 lower angle of cell below the minute white discoidal lunule ; postmedial 

 line fine, black defined on outer side by white, oblique from costa to vein 

 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, incurved and minutely waved 

 below vein 4, the costa beyond it with alternating black and whitish 



