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discal (all these unusually near base) ; a strongly angulated trans¬ 
verse series of indistinct groups of grey or dark grey specks from 
beneath costa at | to above dorsum at f ; a terminal series of 
minute blackish dots on veins : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings 
and cilia white. 
Philippines, Mt. Makiling, Luzon (BaJcer ); 1 ex. 
PHALONIADiE. 
Clysia charixantha, n. sp. 
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< 5 . 9-11 mm., $ 12-13 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light 
ochreous-yellow, face tinged whitish. Antennal ciliations <5 fasci¬ 
culated (1). Forewings elongate, rather dilated, costa hardly 
arched, termen $ faintly sinuate, $ straight, rather oblique; 
ochreous-yellowish; costal edge suffused fuscous from base to 
fascia; a direct dark grey median fascia, broadest towards costa, 
suffused ochreous-brown in disc posteriorly ; a minute blackish dot 
just before termen in middle : cilia light ochreous-yellow. Hind- 
wings grey, <$ basal half of costa narrowly folded above, with 
close fringe of whitish-grey-ochreous hairscales appressed to surface 
of wing, costal cilia projecting in a short tuft at end of this, cell 
and spaces immediately below and beyond it whitish-hyaline 
sprinkled minute black hairscales ; cilia light grey. Forewings S 
beneath with dorsal area anteriorly whitish-ochreous, terminated 
by a median dorsal patch of mixed grey-whitish and blackish-grey 
scales. 
Ceylon, Maskeliya, Madulsima; Coorg, Dibidi (3000 feet); 
April to December, 9 ex. I have hitherto erroneously confused 
this species with the European ambiguella , to which it is closely 
allied; lately, when critically studying these forms, I became 
aware that they were distinct. 
Clysia turbinaris, n. sp. 
S . 12 mm., $ 14-17 mm. Head, palpi, thorax pale ochreous. 
Antennal ciliations fasciculated (1). Forewings elongate- 
triangular, apex pointed, termen faintly sinuate, rather oblique; 
pale glossy ochreous, indistinctly clouded or mottled brownish- 
ochreous; costal edge infuscated from base to fascia ; a dark grey 
direct median fascia, centrally brown on lower very broad on 
costa where it covers more than rapidly and evenly narrowed to 
fold, thence very narrow to dorsum ; usually a slight mark of 
blackish strigulation on dorsum towards tornus; a small blackish 
dot before termen in middle, sometimes also a few scattered black 
scales : cilia pale ochreous. Hindwings ^ whitish-grey 7 -ochreous, 
towards dorsum faintly pinkish-tinged, with slight fold and 
appressed fringe of whitish-ochreous hairscales from base nearly 
to |, cell and spaces immediately below and beyond it minutely 
speckled black amongst whitish scales, $ light greyish; cilia 
whitish-ochreous. 
Assam, Khasis, July’ to September; 4 ex. 
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