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Ab. 12. concisa. Similar but with oblique black line on outer side 

 of the whitish band, 



Ab. 13. Fore wing grej' with the inner area red-brown, 



Ab. 14. Fore wing with the antemedial and postinedial lines 

 defined by white and with white streaks on veins 7, 6, base of vejn 

 3, and. on vein 1. 



Ab. 15. Similar but the fore wing fuscous black except the base, 

 inner margin and tornal half of terminal area. 



Ab. 16. Similar but fore wing wholly suffused with black except 

 a brownish ochreous band before the antemedial line. 



Ab. 17. Fore wing with the whole medial area whitish tinged 

 with brown. 



Ab, 18, griseovirens. Fore wing olive-greyish with some whitish 

 suffusion on medial area. 



Ab. 19. Similar but fore wing with patches of white on basal 

 area, medial area below eosta and in reniform, at and below apex 

 and at extremity of submedian fold. 



Ab. 20. albivitla. Fore wing with diffused downcurved white 

 fascia from below eosta near base to postmedial line at discal fold, 



Ab, 21 , Fore wing with broad white medial band, its inner edge 

 oblique, its outer curved and emitting a fascia to middle of tornus. 



Ab. 22. alhotecia. Fore wing white, the base, costal area to 

 middle, and apical area red-brown. 



Ab. 23. rudivitta. Fore wing with black antemedial band and 

 fascia from it through the cell to near termen. 



Ab. 24. Fore wing wdth oblique blackish band from eosta at 

 antemedial line to inner margin towards tornus with streak from 

 it at lower angle of cell to termen at discal fold. 



Ab. 25. lata. Fore wing with brown streaks in discal fold on 

 terminal area, on bases of veins 3, 2 and a streak on base of vein 1, 

 at middle bent upwards to submedian fold and ending at post- 

 medial line, 



Ab, 26. Similar but with the streaks black. 



Ab. 27. Fore wing with rufous fascia below median nervure and 

 from lower angle of cell to termen. 



Hah. Ceylon (Lindesaij), 18 J, 19 $ , type and types j)^"f/i'-if<^, 

 sigaata, suhglauca, velata, onusia, guttulosa, imprimis, frontalis^ 

 canescens, basifascia, cintrascens, sj^urcata, concisa, griseovirens, 

 albivitta, albotecta, rudivitta, Jativitta, lata, Pundaloya (Green), 

 20 c?, 21 $, Dickoya (Green), 1 $, Kandy (Mackiuood), 1 J, 

 W, Haputale (Maclcwood), 1 c? , Trincomali (Yerbury), 4 c? > 2 $ , 

 Exp. 24-36 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Coffee (Nietner). 



Genus TATHOTHRIPA, nov. 



Type, r, conti'"ua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennte of male almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely wilh scales and 

 without crests ; tibire slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 



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