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Habitat. — Ceylon, Ambalangoda (Pole). E.vp. cj" 16, 5 18 mill. Type 

 in B. M. 



41786. Crambxjs albiceps, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 32). 



5 . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown, the vertex of head 

 whitish ; abdomen white tinged with brown. Forewing grey tinged with 

 reddish brown and thickly irrorated with brown ; a slight blackish discoidal 

 point and blackish terminal line ; cilia with a silvery gloss. Hindwing 

 white tinged with brown, the cilia white ; the underside white faintly 

 tinged with brown. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Haputale (Alston). JExp. 18 mill. Type in B. M. 

 4202c. Ohilo ARiEALis, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 33), 

 Forewing with vein 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 anastomosing with 12. 

 cS . Head, thorax and abdomen pale ochreous yeUow ; forelegs brownish, 

 the tibia and tarsus whitish in front. Forewing pale ochreous yellow 

 slightly irrorated with brown and the veins defined by faint brown streaks ; 

 traces of an oblique antemedial brown line from vein 2 near base to vein 1 ; 

 a triangular blackish discoidal spot with a brownish streak from it to termen ; 

 postmedial line rather oblique and formed of faint dark streaks from costa 

 to vein 6, then very oblique to middle of inner margin and minutely 

 dentate ; two black points on termen above tornus. Hindwing white ; the 

 underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous. 



Habitat.— M.A-DB.A.S, Palnis (Campbell). Kvp. 26 mill. Type in B. M. 

 4203. Chilo simplex. 



Larva. — Pinkish grey sparsely covered with fine hairs ; two faint pale 

 brown dorsal stripes ; a diffused lateral band of the same colour ; a supra- 

 spiracular series of small black specks ; in some cases the whole body is 

 suffused with brown ; head red, glabrous ; thoracic plate horny. Feeds in 

 the heads and stems of the great millet and Holcus spicalus, boring down 

 into the head as the ear is formed and settling in the stem in which it 

 pupates ; the whole upper part of the plant rots ; very destructive. (W, H. 

 Campbell). 



4205. Ohilo sitppeessalis, insert (syn). Chilo auricilia Dudgeon. J. 



Bomb. Soc. xvi., p. 405 (1905). 

 Food plant Sugarcane. 



Anekastian^. 



4279a. Ambala albivenalis, n. sp. 



Maxillary palpi flattened against frons ; antennse of male strongly 

 laminate and with ridge of scales in sinus at base of shaft ; hindwing 

 with veins 3 and 5 stalked to near termen. 



Head and thorax white mixed with rufous ; abdomen white dorsally 

 suffused with fulvous yellow at base. Forewing ochreous tinged with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with black, the veins prominently streaked 

 with white ; an antemedial black point on vein 1 ; a postmedial black point 



