xocxuiDiE. 539 



2834 a. Mastigophorus pranalis, n. sp. 



3 . Reddish brown slightly suffused with purple ; palpi fuscous 

 slightly mottled with grey. Fore wing with indistinct waved 

 antemedial and medial lines ; a white speck in cell and large 

 fuscous speckled ochreous discocellular patch ; a double postmeclial 

 sinuous line angled below costa and excurved round lower angle 

 of cell. Hind wing fuscous brown; both wings with sinuous 

 submarginal series of white specks. Underside fuscous, with sub- 

 marginal series of pale specks. 



5 . Pore wing with two discocellular black specks replacing the 

 ochreous patch. 



Hab. Puttalam, Ceylon {Pole). Exp. 36 millim. Type in B. M. 



2840 a. Falcimala lativitta, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 29 ; C. 8c 8. 

 no. 4297. 



$ . Palpi with the 2nd joint much more thickly clothed on both 

 sides with long hair. Pale yellowish brown ; palpi red-brown at 

 base ; abdomen with the dorsal tuft dark. Pore wing irrorated 

 with red-brown ; two brown subbasal spots ; a curved rufous ante- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa ; the medial area brown, 

 bounded by a pale discocellular lunule with two black specks on 

 its outer edge and a curved rufous line from it to inner margin, a 

 diffused rufous sinuous submarginal line arising from a brown 

 patch on costa ; a marginal series of dark specks ; the cilia rufous. 

 Hmd wing whitish ; underside with discocellular spot. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 24 millim. 



2840 b. Falcimala ochrealis, n. sp. 



3 • Head, thorax, and abdomen bright ochreous and black, Pore 

 wing bright ochreous irrorated with black; a black patch at 

 base of costa followed by a black streak ; an oblique black wedge- 

 shaped mark from middle of costa to beyond lower angle of cell, 

 and embracing a discocellular black mark; some black specks on 

 costa towards apex ; the marginal area black, narrowing to apex 

 and below middle ; a marginal series of ochreous specks. Hind 

 wing fuscous black. 



Hab. Bhutan, 2500 feet (Dudgeon). Exp. 16 millim. Type 

 in B. M. 



2843 a. Nagadeba pictalis, n. sp. 



$ . Chestnut-brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen variegated 

 with white. Pore wing with the basal area variegated with 

 white; traces of a waved antemedial line and of a medial 

 line angled on median nervure ; two dark discocellular specks ; 

 some white specks on costa towards apex ; some white suffusion 

 and three black specks below apex ; a crenulate white marginal 

 line. Hind wing with the basal area suffused with fuscous ; traces 

 of a waved white medial line ; a dentate grey postmedial line on 

 a deep black irregular band ; a crenulate white marginal line. 

 Hab. Bhutan (Dudgeon). Exp. 22 millim. Type in B. M. 



