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scales from cell to inner margin ; two black diseoidal points ; an olive 

 ochreous postmedial band from submedian fold to inner margin ; subter- 

 minal line whitish defined on inner side by black and on outer by red, 

 almost straight, oblique ; a fine black terminal line; cilia whitish with an 

 ochreous line at base followed by a fine dark line. Hindwing semihyaline 

 whitish tinged with brown ; a blackish terminal line ; cilia with a dark 

 line near base. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Hambantota (Bainbrigge-Fletcher), Kxp. 18 mill. Type 

 in B. M. 



4370^. Nephopteryx ferreotincta, n. sp. 



$. Head, thorax and abdomen grey-brown mixed with whitish; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen with brownish dorsal bands towards 

 base, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface white. Forewing white, 

 thickly irrorated and suffused with grey-broivn and with some rufous espe- 

 cially on inner area before and beyond the subterminal line ; antemedial line 

 ill-defined, whitish, with diffused black patch before it on inner half and 

 diffused white patch beyond it, oblique from costa to sxibmedian fold, then 

 incurved : two indistinct conjoined brown diseoidal points ; subterminal 

 line white, slightly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a 

 terminal series of blackish points ; cilia with a white line near base. 

 Hindwing semihyaline whitish, the costal area tinged with brown ; a fine 

 brown terminal line and line near base of cilia. 



Habitat.— G&Yhos, Matale (Pole). ExiJ. 20 mill. Type in B. M. 



Genus Thermoptekyx, nov. 

 Type. — T. rubrifusa. 



Palpi upturned, the second joint reaching about to vertex of head and 

 moderately fringed with scales in front, the third short ; maxillary palpi 

 slightly dilated with scales ; frons smooth ; antennce of female almost 

 simple ; tibite slightly fringed with hair. Forewing with veins 2-3 on a 

 long stalk ; 4-5 closely approximated for about half their length and not 

 in line with median nervure ; 6 from upper angle ; 8-9 stalked and 10 

 closely approximated to them for about half its length. Hindwing with vein 

 3 from angle of cell ; 4-5 strongly stalked ; 6-7 from upper angle ; 8 not 

 anastomosing with 7 ; the cell about half length of wing, 

 4382a. Thermopteryx rubrifusa, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 37.) 

 $ . Head, thorax and abdomen grey- white suffused in parts with 

 rufous ; palpi fuscous. Forewing grey-white irrorated with rufous ; a 

 patch of rufous suffusion on basal costal area ; the inner area suffused with 

 rufous from before middle where it extends almost to costa and thence 

 obliquely to termen between veins 3 and 2 ; a patch of rufous suffusion 

 at apex ; two rufous diseoidal points ; a greyish subterminal line, slightly 

 bent outwards at discal fold, then minutely waved ; a terminal series of 



