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Zelleria stro])1icea, n. sp. 



(S $ . 12-17 mm. Head and thorax white, more or less sprinkled with 

 dark fuscous. Palpi white suifusedly irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 in S whitish sprinkled with fuscous, in $ grey. Forewings elongate- 

 lanceolate ; white, more or less largely suffused with fuscous and irrorated 

 with darker fuscous, the white ground colour appearing as some irregular 

 markings in disc and towards apex, with scattered small black dots tending 

 to be arranged in longitudinal series ; stigmata forming small blackish spots, 

 plical 7ery obliquely before first discal, an additional similar spot obliquely 

 beyond second discal towards tornus; cilia grey-whitish, round apex fuscous 

 with a black subbasal line. Hindwings grey, in cell and towards base 

 beneath it thinly scaled and semihyaline, upper and lower margins of cell 

 dark fuscous; cilia light fuscous. 



Maskeliya, Namunukuli (6,000 feet), Puttalam, Ceylon, from September 

 to February, and in June (Pole, Green) ; eleven specimens. 



Paradoxus, Staint. 



Stainton has misapprehended the structure of the palpi of this genus, and 

 I am not aware that his error has been corrected; the joints of the labial 

 palpi which he describes as basal and second are really the second and 

 third, and their structure is as in Xyrosaris, from which this genus difi'ers 

 by having the antennse shorter than the forewings. 



Paradoxus deforonis, n. sp. 



.9. 13 mm. Head white, sprinkled with grey specks. Palpi moderate 

 (shorter than in osyridella), white irrorated with dark grey specks except 

 towards apex. Thorax whitish mixed with grey. Abdomen grey, anal 

 segment whitish edged laterally with blackish. Forewings elongate, narrow, 

 costa gently arched, bent somewhat before middle, apex obtuse-pointed, 

 termen extremely oblique, hardly sinuate ; pale greyish, finely darker- 

 sprinkled, base somewhat darker-suffused ; about forty small black some- 

 what raised dots scattered over wing ; a moderately large semicircular 

 suffused blackish spot on dorsum before middle of wing : cilia commencing 

 abruptly near before apex of wing, grey, round apex suffused with dark 

 grey, with an interrupted black basal line. Hindwings rather dark grey, 

 without hyaline patch ; cilia grey. 



Kegalle, Ceylon (Alston) ; one specimen. 



Xyrosaris campsiptila, n. sp. 



c? $ . 12 mm. Head and thorax pale brownish, mixed with whitish 

 and finely sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi whitish-brownish, irrorated 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen in S ochreous-grey-whitish, in $ grey, 

 segmental margins whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, widest at |, costa 

 gently arched, apex pointed, termen sinuate, extremely oblique ; pale 

 brownish, finely sprinkled with dark fuscous specks, and strewn with short 

 straight transverse whitish strigee, and with scattered minute black raised 

 dots and strigulse ; obscure patches of fuscous suffusion on middle of costa, 

 and on dorsum at ^ and § ; an angulated transverse series of several small 

 blackish tufts before apex : cilia pale brownish, on termen with rows of 

 black points and an interrupted dark fuscous subbasal shade. Hindwings 

 grey ; cell, and an elongate patch beneath it towards base, hyaline but 

 thinly strewn with grey hairs ; cilia light ochreous-grey. 



Puttalam, Ceylon, in November (Pole) ; N. c'oorg, 3,500 feet, in May 

 (Newcome) ; three specimens. 



Prays erebitis, n. sp. 



<S . 12-13 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, face sometimes whitish. 

 Palpi fuscous, extreme base and apex of terminal joint whitish. Abdomen 

 dark grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex 

 pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; fuscous, strigulated throughout 



