TOLPIA. — ALAPADNA. 
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white ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen whitish 
suffused with rufous, the fore legs suffused with dark brown, 
the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore whig creamy white, 
extending on costa to middle and on inner margin to near 
tornus, the rest of wing purple-brown suffused with silver 
with a large elliptical creamy white patch on costal area 
from beyond middle to apex ; a dark purple-brown patch 
suffused with silver on basal costal area ; the white area 
defined by an oblique sinuous blackish line ; a white discoidal 
bar ; a rather diffused and slightly waved dark subterminal 
line from the white costal patch to inner margin, defined on 
outer side by slight whitish marks and excurved at middle ; 
a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia whitish at base, 
purple-brown at tips. Hind wing pale purplish brown, the 
cilia whitish. Underside of fore wing pale reddish brown, 
the inner area whitish, some whitish marks on costa towards 
apex ; hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown, a small 
brown discoidal spot. 
Hab. Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole, de Mowbray), 2 £ type. 
Exp. 16 millim. 
Tolpia atripuncta, n. sp. 
g. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with 
some greyish ; antennoe and palpi black-brown ; tarsi slightly 
ringed with whitish. Fore wing purplish grey, strongly 
suffused and slightly irrorated with dark brown, the costa 
black towards base ; a rather diffused blackish antemedial 
line with black points on it below costa and on subcostal 
nervure ; a small black discoidal spot ; a rather triangular 
blackish spot on costa above end of cell, the rather diffused 
blackish postmedial line arising from it, oblique to vein 6 
and slightly incurved below vein 4, some small blackish spots 
beyond it on costa ; a faint diffused dark subterminal line, 
excurved below costa and at middle ; a terminal series of 
blackish points. Hind wing uniform black-brown. Under- 
side dark reddish brown, slightly mixed with greyish ; both 
wings with indistinct rather diffused curved dark postmedial 
line. 
Hab. Be. E. Africa, Uganda Ry., Mile 478 (Betton), 2 
type, Kikuyu Escarpment (Doherty), 1 <$. Exp. 14 millim. 
Genus ALAPADNA. 
Alapadna, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxvii. p. 106 
(1902) 
Type. 
pauropis, Turn. 
Alapadna micropis, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish suffused with red- 
brown, the head whiter, the crest at base of abdomen tipped 
