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abdomen ochreous brown. Forewing ochreous mostly suffused with 

 bright rufous ; traces of an oblique dark antemedial line with silvery 

 scales before it towards inner margin ; an oblique medial band of silvery 

 siiffusion ; an indistinct oblique dark postmedial line with band of silvery 

 suffusion beyond it ; the inner margin blackish from near base to a dark 

 brownish batch at tornus ; cilia silvery whitish at tips. Hindwing ochre- 

 ous brown, the cilia silvery white except at base. \ 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Kegalle (Alston). Exi). 20 mill. Type in B. M. 



Phycitin^. 

 Genus Prorophora. 



Type. 



FrOrophora, Rag., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 252 curvibasella. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi down-curved, typically extending about 

 the length of head ; maxillary palpi slightly tufted with hair ; frons 

 with pointed prominence hidden in a tuft of hair ; antennae of male almost 

 simple. Forewing long and narrow, the apex rounded ; vein 8 from angle 

 of cell ; 4o on a long stalk from above angle; 89 stalked; 1011 from 

 cell. Hindwing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4'5 on a long stalk ; 6'7 

 from upper angle ; 8 not anastomosing with 7. 



43356. Prorophora dialeuca, n. sp. (PI. G., f, 34). 



Palpi extending twice the length of head. 



$ . Head, thorax and abdomen grey suffused with brown. Forewing 

 grey suffused with brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a white 

 streak above median nervure from before middle of cell to termen at 

 discal fold, emitting minute spurs on bases of veins 4*3 ; slight fuscous 

 medial marks on median nervure and vein 1, and a postmedial series of 

 minute diffused streaks on the vens, oblique below vein 4 ; the veins slightly 

 streaked with whitish towards termen which is more strongly irrorated 

 with brown. Hindwing semihy aline white, the termen faintly tinged 

 with ochreous brown. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Elephant Pass (Mackwood), Jaffna (Mackwood). Exp. 

 24 miU. Type in B. M. 



Genus Hyphantidium. 



Type. 

 Hyphanttdium, Scott., Proc. Zool, Soc, 1869, p. 207 . . sericaria. 

 Assara, Wlk., xxvii, 79 (1863) . . . . . . . . albicostalis. 



Cateremna, Meyr., Pr. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., vii, p. 156 



(1882) . . . . . . . . . . . . tnicrodoxa. 



Seneca, Hulst., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xvii, p. 177 (1890).. tumidella. 

 4345. HypHANiiDiuM albicosxalis, Wlk., xxvii, 80 (1869) ; Rag. Rom. 



M6m., viii, p. 73, pi. xxv., f. 14. 



