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blackish, with a fine pale line at base. Hindwing i)ale silky olive tinged 

 with fuscous especially on terminal area ; a terminal series of smaiJ 

 triangular black spots ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskeliya (Alston). HJ.rp. 22 mill. Type in B. M. 



4446/;. Macalla eumictalis, n. sp. (PI. G , f. 40.) 



Head, thorax and abdomen greyish mixed with rufous and black ; tarsi 

 black with pale rings. Forewing greyish t'nged with olive and in parts with 

 rufous especially on medial area and irrorated with black, the apical area 

 suffused with black ; some black suffusion on base of inner margin and on 

 costa before middle ; antemedial line represented by a ridge of raised 

 black scales, inwardly oblique from costa to vein 1, then bent outwards 

 above inner margin ; a sinuons medial ridge of black scales from cell to 

 nner margin ; a discoidal tuft of black scales and a diffused oblique 

 ridge of scales from lower angle of cell to vein 1 ; postmedial line black, 

 dentate, oblique from costa to vein 4, then erect and angled inwards at 

 vein 2, a whitish patch before it beyond the cell ; a terminal series of 

 rather triangular blackish spots with a slight whitish patch before them at 

 middle ; cilia chequered rufous and blackish. Hindwing olive tinged 

 with rufous and fuscous ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya (de Mowbray). Kvp. (S 34, $ 40 mill. 



ElSTDOTRICHIN^. 



4504a. Triohophysetis UMBnirusAiiis, n. sp. (PI. G., f . 41), 



5 . Head, thorax and abdomen white, the last faintly tinged with 

 brown ; palpi with some black scales ; two black points between antennj© : 

 fore tibiae, the spurs and tarsi with black points. Forewing white with a 

 faint brownish tinge on inner area except towards base and on terminal 

 area ; a black point below base of vein 1 ; an indistinct double curved 

 brownish antimedial line with black points at costa and submedian fold ; 

 au indistinct double curved brownish postmedial line ; a minvitely waved 

 fuscous line from costa towards apex to termen at vein 3, the area beyond 

 it suffused with brown. Hindwing white, the terminal area tinged with 

 brown ; a double brown antemedial line wibh black spot on its outer edge 

 in submedian fold ; a double brown postmedial line with black spot on its 

 inner edge at submedian fold almost touching the antemedial spot, and 

 black point at inner margin ; cilia brown ; the underside with indistinct 

 double subterminal line from costa to vein 3 with black spot on its inner 

 side at costa. 



ab. 1. Abdomen more suffused with brown and irrorated with black ; 

 forewing with the inner half from before middle suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with black ; hindwing with the inner area from before middle 

 and the terminal area suffused with brown and black. 



Habitat. — Madras, Nilgiris, Ootacamund (Cardew), Ouchterlong Valley 

 (Andrewes). Krj). 22 mill. Type in B. M. 



