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black below the cell and on inner margin before the rather diffused oblique 

 waved antemedial line ; a discoidal tufb of black scales ; postmedial line 

 black defined on outer side by whitish, dentate, excurved from below costa 

 to vein 2 ; subterminal line represented by a pale green band defined on 

 inner side by dark green or blackish suffusion and on outer by a terminal 

 series of dark green lunules ; cilia chequered white and black. Hindwing 

 pale almost wholly suffused with fuscous ; a curved minutely waved 

 diffused dark postmedial line defined on outer side by wh'tish ; the termen 

 purplish red with a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia whitish 

 chequered with black from apex- to vein 2 ; the underside whitish suffused 

 with purplish brown, especially on terminal area, a curved dentate dark 

 postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya, (Pole), Madulsima (Vaughan). Ex^j. 30 

 mill. Type in B. M. 



443S6. Lepidoghvia melanolopha, n. sp. 



9 . Head, thorax and abdomen pale reddish brown ; palpi black with 

 pale ring at base and extremity of third joint ; tibiae and tarsi black ringed 

 with white. Forcwing pale reddish brown sparsely irrorated with black : 

 the costal area suffused with black to the postmedial line, the subbasal 

 and antemedial lines represented by pale bars on it ; a prominent tuft of 

 black scales at upper angle of cell ; a faint diffused fuscous shade beyond 

 and below the cell ; postmedial line black, strongly excurved below vein 6 

 and slightly incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of black strife and a 

 fuscous shade on terminal area above tornus ; cilia fuscous with a pale 

 line at base. Hindwing pale reddish bi-own suffused with fuscous ; a 

 subterminal black bar at vein 2 defined on outer side by whitish ; a 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia fuscous with a pale line at base ; the under- 

 side ochreous whitish irrorated with fuscous especially on costal area, the 

 terminal area tinged with fuscous, a pale postmedial line obliquely curved 

 to submedian fold near termen. 



Habitat.— Gey LOS, Kegalle (Mackwood), E:r2}. 20 mill. Type in B. M. 



4545/>. Macalla braohyscopalis, n. sp. 



Male with the antennal process short and hardly extending behind 

 the head. 



(S . Head and thorax olive-green with some black scales ; palpi mostly 

 black ; antennal process black at tip ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen 

 olive green with some black scales, tinged with rufous and largely mixed with 

 black towards extremity. Forewing olive-green irrorated with black 

 expecially towards costa, the terminal area slightly ringed with rufous ; a 

 pale oblique antemedial striga from costa ; a discoidal tuft of black scales ; 

 postmedial line blackish defined on outer side by pale olive, oblique from 

 costa to vein 5, excurved to vein 2, then again oblique to near tornus ; 

 a terminal series of small triangular black spots ; cilia chequered olive and 



