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on vein 1 and usually an oblique striga between veins 5 and 2 ; a terminal 

 series of slight black points. Hindwing white with a faint ochreous brown 

 tinge ; the cilia pure white. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Puttalam. (Pole) 1 c? , 1 2 , Haputale (Alston) 1 S , 

 Kegalle (Alston) 1 J . Exp. 12-20 mill. 



4285a. Anbkastia castanealis, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax and abdomen chestnut-red ; pectus, legs and ventral 

 surface of abdomen paler, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white. Forewing 

 pale chestnut-red, deeper red towards costa ; the ante-and postmedial 

 lines represented by traces of short deep red streaks. Hindwing white, 

 the costa and termen slightly tinged with brown ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with brown. 



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



4299a. Salukia hemiph^alis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax fuscous, the metathorax rufous ; abdomen grey 

 dorsally tinged with rufous. Forewing with the costal half fuscous, the 

 inner half rufous, the costal area with a white fascia tapering to a point 

 just before apex. Hindwing semihy aline whitish tinged with brown ; 

 cilia whitish with a brown line through them. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Haldamulla (Mackwood), Haputale (Alston). Exp. 

 22-26 mill. Type in B. M. 



43046. Cbitonia ochracealis, n. sp. 



Palpi of male oblique, the 2nd joint hollowed out to receive the brush 

 like maxiUary palpi ; antennae serrate, with large tuft at base of shaft. 



Bead and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen ochreous. Forewing 

 ochreous with a brownish tinge below costal area from base to apex ; the 

 costal edge blackish at base ; a blackish antemedial point on vein 1 • an 

 ill-defined blackish discoidal spot .; an oblique postmedial series of blackisn 

 points on the veins ; an oblique blackish bar from apex and terminal 

 series of black points. Hindwing semihyaline ochreous, the costal area 

 tinged with brown towards apex ; a fine dark terminal line. Underside 

 of forewing suffuf^ed with fuscous brown, except on inner and terminal 

 areas, more extensively suffused in female. 



Habitat. — Punjab ; Kangra Valley (Dudgeon) ; Madras, Nilgiris (An- 

 drewes). Exp. ^ 26, $ 30 mill. Type in B. M. 



4312. PoLYACHA DEPBESSELLA insert (syn). Polyocha saccharella (Dud- 

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



This belongs to Sect. II ; but the forewing has veins 4-5 approximated 

 for some distance and veins 10 from the cell, hindwing with veins 3 from 

 angle of cell and 8 free. 



Larva on sugarcane. 



4326a. — Hexerographis akgentescens, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 35). 



$ . Head and thorax rufous with some silvery scales ; antennee blackish 



