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beyond this; an obtusely angulated transverse bluish-silvery line towards 

 apex, followed on costa by a yellowish mark and white dot; a large 

 projecting tuft of dark fuscous scales from dorsum before middle, a 

 smaller one beyond middle, and a third in cilia before tornus : cilia grey, 

 at apex a dark fuscous hook. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. Fore- 

 wings beneath in ç? with expansible pencil of ochreous-whitish hairs 

 from base of costa reaching to l [ 3 of wing. 



Java, Batavia; two specimens. Nearly allied to auricïlla, which has 

 similar dorsal tufts, but distinct; the apical area of wing in auricula is 

 pale ochreous-yellowish, and the pale lines are more obscure, not yel- 

 lowish, and rather differently arranged, the costal spots blackish, the <J 

 has a subcostal hairpencil beneath, but it is much shorter. 



Euprophantis n. g. 



Head smooth; ocelli posterior; tongue short. Antennae 3 / 5 , iu tf. 

 simple, basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi moderate, cur- 

 ved, ascending, anteriorly loosely scaled throughout, terminal joint longer 

 than second, hardly pointed. Maxillary palpi minute, filiform, porrected. 

 Posterior tibiae with appressed scales. Forewings 2 from angle, 7 absent, 

 8 and 9 approximated at base, 11 from before middle. Hindwings l \ % , 

 linear-lanceolate, cilia 4; 4 absent, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Allied to Parectopa, perhaps also to Aristaea. Differs from all known 

 genera of the family in the relatively short antennae, which are usually 

 as long as forewings or longer ; it has the aspect of a Lithocolletis. 



Euprophantis autoghjpta n. sp. 



cf 9 6 — 7 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen shining whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse- 

 pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; light saffron-ochreous, paler 

 anteriorly; an undefined rather broad suffused whitish streak along dor- 

 sum from base to middle; five costal and two dorsal shining whitish 

 streaks edged anteriorly with fuscous, first dorsal beyond middle, curved- 

 wedgeshaped, oblique, rather broad dorsally, reaching half across wing, 

 second praetornal, short, transverse, costal narrow, first beyond middle, 

 oblique, hardly reaching half across wing, second less oblique, nearly 

 reaching tornus, last three very short, beneath these two leaden dots in 

 disc; a round black apical dot: cilia whitish, with a grey subbasal line 

 becoming dark grey round apex and indented beneath apex, above apex 

 a grey cloudy hook. Hindwings light grey; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Java, Pekalongan (van Deventer); three specimens. 



