526 APPENDIX. 



costal patch ; an irregularly sinuous submarginal line ; a fuscous 

 patch on outer margin below apex. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hab. TJdagama, Ceylon (Maekwood). Exp. 26 millim. Type 

 in B. M. 



2222 b. Blenina xantholopha, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax grey irrorated with brown ; palpi black at 

 sides ; collar edged with black ; abdomen pale at base, the medial 

 part fuscous, the extremity grey. Fore wing grey irrorated with 

 brown ; small sulphur-yellow tufts below base of median nervure, 

 and on the small black-edged orbicular and at lower end of the 

 large reniform ; an obscure waved black subbasal hue ; a dentate 

 black antemedial line becoming broad below the cell, the area 

 before it tinged with rufous ; a highly dentate irregular medial 

 line ; a postmedial dentate line excurved beyond cell and crossed 

 by a pale brown line : a very irregularly dentate submarginal 

 black line with white patch on it at costa ; the veins streaked with 

 black just inside margin ; the costal and apical part of outer area 

 tinged with rufous. Hind wing pale at base, the outer half 

 suffused with black. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 38 millim. Type in B. M. 



Sect. I. B. — Hind wing of male with the area near anal angle con- 

 torted and with tufts of long hair above and below ; the veins 

 beyond lower angle of cell and vein 6 fringed above with hair ; 

 veins 3, 4 on a long stalk in male, coincident in female. 



2222 c. Blenina metalophota, n. sp. 



Differs from minor in the abdomen being fuscous and fringed 

 with white towards extremity. Fore wing with no definite fuscous 

 patch between the ante- and postmedial lines, the latter recurved 

 to costa ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing paler and 

 semihyaline : the tufts of hair in male fuscous and ochreous. 



Hob. Khasis, Exp. 36 millim. Type in B. M. 



Vol. II, p. 380. Argyrothripa='Ptisci2Lna,, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 912 

 (1865). 



2225. Argyrothripa Zi?acma = Ptiscianaseminivea, Wlk. Cat.xx.sxii, 

 p. 912. Borneo. 



2226 a. Ptisciana olivana, Swinh. A. M. N. S. (6) xvii, p. 362. 



c? . Dark olive-green ; head grey. Fore wing with traces of 

 waved lines on basal area and of a rufous antemedial band from 

 costa to below cell ; a white discocellular line ; a semicircular dark 

 purplish patch occupying most of outer area, crossed by two curved 

 lines with dark-red suffusion on their outer side, and by a dentate 

 submarginal line with a black speck on it below apex. Abdomen 

 and hind wing black-brown. Underside black-brown; the costa 

 of fore wing pale. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 28 millim. 



