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The dark grey areas of fore wing are often suffused with flesh- 

 pink. 



Hab. Ceylon {Green, Pole). Exp. 22-28 millim. TypeinB.M. 



4304. Critonia purpureotincta, n. sp. 



§ . Brownish flesh-colour. Tore wing with the costal and 

 inner areas broadly suffused with pale purple and irrorated with 

 black, the dark inner area not reaching the outer angle ; dark 

 specks on veins 2 and 3 beyond lower angle of cell ; a marginal 

 series of dark specks. Hind wing pale ochreous : the cilia grey. 



Hab. Bhutan {Dudgeon). Exp. 38 millim. Type in B. M. 



4305. Critonia roseistrigella, n. sp. 



6 . Head and thorax rose-pink ; abdomen whitish with slight 



ochreous tinge. Fore wing 

 rose-pink, the veins with dark 

 streaks ; a white costal fascia 

 narrowing to base and apex, 

 and suffused with pink on 

 costa, the area below it slightly 

 suffused with fuscous. Hind 

 41 ._ Critonia roseistrigella, S • t- wing whitish ; the margin and 



apical area tinged with fuscous. 



Hab. Nilgiris {Hampson). Exp. 22 millim. Type in B. M. 



4306. Critonia subconcinnella, Rag. MS. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing bright pink ; abdomen ochreous 

 white. Fore wing with white costal fascia narrowing to base and 

 apex, the area below it suffused with fuscous ; a whitish spot in 

 end of cell conjoined to the costal fascia ; traces of waved ante- 

 and postmedial lines. Hind wing nearly pure white. 



Hab. Shan States. Exp. 18 millhn. Type in B. M. 



Genus P0LY0CHA. 



Polyocha, Zell. Isis, 1848, p. 876. 

 Emmalocera, Hag. Nouv. Gen. p. 88 (1888). 

 Lodiana, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 38. 



Type, P. sanguarinella, Zell., from Europe. 



Range. Abyssinia ; Palaearctic and Oriental regions to Plores. 



Palpi long, the 2nd joint hollowed out to receive the brush-like 

 maxillary palpi; frons with a tuft of scales ; antennas with a large 

 tuft of scales in a sinus at base of shaft ; mid and hind tibiae 

 fringed with hair on outer side. Fore wing with the apex rounded; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle or stalked ; 

 8, 9 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 usually from angle; 4, 5 

 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



