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terminal series of blackish points. Hindwing ochreous tinged with red- 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a small blackish discoidal spot ; post- 

 medial line blackish, excurved between veins 6 and 2, then retracted to 

 below end of cell and oblique to tornus ; a terminal series of blackish points. 

 Habitat. — Madras, Nilgiris (Andrewes). Exp. 22 mill. Type in J3. M. 

 4942o*. Nacoleia megaspilalis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax cupreous brown mixed with white ; abdomen banded 

 white and cupreous brown. Forewing whitish ; the basal area suffused with 

 cupreous brown ; an oblique, slightly irregular dark antemedial line ; a 

 quadrate cupreous brown spot in middle of cell conjoined to another 

 below the cell ; a equadrate cupreous brown patch in and beyond end of 

 cell with small spot above it on costa and another beyond it on costa ; 

 postmedial line rather difl'used and maculate, oblique from costa to vein 

 5, bent outwards and somewhat dentate between veins 5 and 2, then 

 retracted to below angle of cell ; terminal area suti'used with brown and 

 with a white patch between veins 5 and 2 leaving two small wedge-shaped 

 brown spots on termen. Hindwing white ; a diffused brown line close to 

 base ; a discoidal point ; a diffused rather maculate medial line ; a difl'used 

 rather maculate postmedial line bent outwards and somewhat dentate 

 between veins 5 and 2 ; teminal area suffused with brown and with white 

 patch between veins 5 and 2 leaving two small wedge-shaped brown spots 

 on termen. 



Habitat. — Madras, Horsleykonda (Campbell); Queensland, Dawson Dist. 

 Ranoe (Barnard). Eqy. 20 mill. Type in B. M. 

 4983a. Sylepia agraphalis, n. sp. 



Sylepta denticulafa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv., p. 838 (part). 

 S . Head, thorax and abdomen grey-brown, the head whiter ; palpi 

 black, white at base and tips ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdo- 

 men whitish. Forewing grey-brown ; a slight dark antemedial mark on 

 costa and oblique whitish line defined on outer side by fuscous from cell to 

 inner margin ; a small whitish spot at middle of cell and curved discoidal 

 striga both defined by fuscous ; postmedial line represented by a small 

 fuscous spot at costa with two small whitish spo:s below it, then by a 

 series of small fuscous spots with whitish points on their outer side, excurv- 

 ed between veins 5 and 2, then bent inwards to below end of cell and 

 oblique to inner margin ; a terminal series of minute blackish points and a 

 fine pale line at base of cilia followed by a dark line. Hindwing grey- 

 brown ; an oblique dark discoidal striga ; a slight dark postmedial line 

 defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, 

 then retracted and oblique to above tornus ; a terminal series of blackish 

 striae and fine pale line at base of cilia. 



Habitat. — Bhutan (^Dudgeon) ; Assam, Khasis. Exp. 32 mill. Type in 

 B. M. 



