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band sending a streak inwards along vein 2 ; a curved mark 

 above inner margin. Hind wing whitish, with dentate sub- 

 marginal line from costa to vein 2 ; the margin brown. 



5 . More ochreous brown. 



Hob. Sind. Exp., 6 26, $ 30 millim. 



Sect. II. (Dattinia). Male with the antennae ciliated ; fore 

 wing with vein 9 from 8 before 7. 



4625. Constantia proximalis, Christ. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xvii, p. 116 ; 

 id. Horn. Mem. hi, p. 16, pi. 1, fig. 7. 

 Hypotia ingrata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 621 ; C. $ S. no. 4506. 

 Hypotia rubella, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 9 ; C. 8fS. 

 'no. 4520. 



Pale ochreous brown. Fore wing with the basal area darker 

 and bounded by a black line with pale outer edge, slightly angled 

 below cell; the medial area irrorated with fuscous ; the postmedial 

 black line with pale inner edge, arising from costa near apex, 

 curved down to vein 2, then recurved to lower angle of cell and 

 obliquely sinuous to inner margin. Hind wing ochreous with a 

 slight fuscous tinge ; traces of a pale subinarginal line ; the margin 

 darker. 



Hah. Armenia ; Central Asia ; Sind. Exp. 14-18 millim. 



Genus TYNDIS. 



Tyndis, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 83. 

 Actenioides, Warr. A. M. N. R. (6) ix, p. 173 (1892). 



Type, T. tanc/anialis, Rag., from E. Africa. 



Range. E. Africa ; India ; Ceylon. 



Palpi porrect, straight, and reaching well beyond the frons, the 

 2nd joint clothed with hair, the 3rd small ; maxillary palpi minute 

 and filiform ; antennas of male with fascicles of cilia ; the basal 

 joint dilated, curved, and roughly scaled. Eore wing narrow, with 

 the costa nearly straight ; the outer margin oblique ; vein 3 from 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for one-third length ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for one-third length ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



4626. Tyndis hypotialis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 866 ; C. ,y S. 

 no. 4529. 

 Nephopteryx creperalis, Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 877, pi. 57, fig. 20; 



C. # S. no. 4575. 

 Sternmatophora mucidalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 34 {nee Quen.). 



Pale rufous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with diffused, 

 almost erect antemedial dark line ; a speck at end of cell ; a 

 postmedial diffused line slightly incurved below vein 5. Hind 

 wing paler, with indistinct minutely dentate diffused postmedial 



