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rnfous points. Hindwing semihyaline white, the costal area faintly tinged 

 with rnfous towards apex. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Trincomali (Green). Evp. 28 mill. Type in B. M. 



4383c. Myelois atrimaculalis, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax and abdomen grey mixed with red-brown, the pectus, 

 legs and ventral surface of abdomen greyer. Forewing grey suffused 

 with red brown ; a small subbasal black spob below costa ; small antemedial 

 black spots just below costa and on vein 1 ; a rather large blackish spot at 

 lower angle of cell with two black points above it • a minutely dentate 

 postmedial dark line from below costa to submedian fold, the veins beyond 

 it with slight dark streaks ending in minute terminal black points. Hind- 

 wing greyish tinged with brown especially on apical area. 



Ha'iitat. — Ceylon, N. C. Province (Pole). Ex]). 18 mill. Type in B. M. 



438o«. Phycita xjmbkatalis, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with some fuscous ; abdomen 

 grey-brown ; the tarsi with slight pale rings. Forewing grey suffused 

 with fuscovis-brown ; antemedial line diffused, brown, curved, with black 

 points before it on median and submedian nervures ; a black discoidal 

 point ; the veins of postmedial area with short black streaks ; subterminal 

 line grey defined on inner side by black and on outer by red-brown ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia grey with brown lines at base and 

 middle. Hindwing greyish white with fine brown lines on termen and 

 near base of cilia. 



Habitat. — Madras, Horsleykonda (Campbell). Exp. 18 mill. Type in B.M. 



4389c. Phycita melanosticta, n. sp. 



9 . Head, thorax and abdomen grey suffused with brown ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; ventral surface of abdomen white. Forewing grey 

 suffused with brown and clouded in parts with fuscous ; the first line medial, 

 double, brown filled in with white and defined on outer side by white, 

 slightly excurved below costa and with short black streak before it above 

 vein 1 ; a slight curved black striga on upper discocellular and a blackish 

 shade beyond the cell bent inwards belokv vein 4 ; postmedial line white, 

 rather oblique from costa to vein 4 and slightly angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; a terminal series of dark points , cilia whitish with a fine 

 brown line near base. Hindwing semihyaline white, the costal area 

 tinged with brown towards apex; a fine brown terminal line and line 

 through the cilia. 



jff«'/{fai.— Ceylon, Peradenya (Green), Habarana (Green). Exp. 22-24 

 mill. Type in B.M. 



4393«. Phycita mimella, Rag., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, p. ccxviii : 



id. Rom. Mem. vii, p. 163, pi. viii, f. 3. 



5 . Head, thorax and abdomen grey mixed with brown, the tarsi with 

 pale rings. Forewing grey tinged in parts with brown and rather thickly 



