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mixed with black on dorsum at |, and two or three black dorsal strigulse ; an 

 interrupted black terminal line : cilia dark grey sprinkled with white, and at 

 tips with black. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 

 Khasi Hills, in June and July ; four specimens. 

 Cydia speculairix, n. sp. 



£9. 12-15 mm. Head light ochreous, sides mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Palpi dark fuscous, basal joint and a subapical bar of second joint whitish- 

 ochreous. Thorax dark fuscous mixed with pale ochreous. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, in <J suffused with pale ochreous on sides and apex. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 sinuate, rather oblique ; dark fuscous, more or less mixed irregularly with pale 

 ochreous ; costa with eight pairs of oblique whitish strigulte, second to fourth 

 giving rise to three obscurely double leaden-metallic strife mixed with whitish, 

 first limiting basal patch, angulated in middle, second irregular, preceding 

 central-fascia, which is blackish-fuscous, obliquely interrupted with pale ochre- 

 ous in middle and leaden-metallic below middle, third following central fascia, 

 rather curved or obtusely bent in middle ; a leaden-metallic stria from fifth 

 pair of costal strigulse to sinuation of termen, continued along termen to 

 tornus, enclosing with the preceding stria the ocellus, which is crossed by three 

 longitudinal pale ochreous dashes ; last three pairs of strigulee emitting short 

 leaden-metallic marks, surrounded with ochreous : cilia light ochreous-yellowish, 

 with a black median line preceded by a dark leaden-grey shade base, whitish. 

 Hindwings in $ thinly scaled, whitish-grey tinged with yellowish, apex mottled 

 with grey, with dorsal pencil of blackish hairs, cilia whitish-ochreous, with 

 grey subbasal line ; in 9 dark grey, cilia grey, with darker subbasal line. 



Khasi Hills, in September ; twelve specimens. Also one $ from Darjiling. 

 in August, with hindwings greyer, but apparently not otherwise different. 

 Laspeyresia leucitis, n. sp. 



9. 19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax leaden-grey, palpi beneath whitish. 

 Abdomen grey- whitish. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen little oblique, rounded, faintly sinuite beneath 

 apex ; rich brown ; a leaden-grey basal patch, outer edge angulated, cut by a 

 streak of ground colour above middle ; seven pairs of minute white costal stri- 

 gulse, separated with blackish, and giving rise to leaden-grey streaks, first two 

 subconfluent, very strongly angulated in disc, where they are connected by a 

 streak with angle of basal patch, surrounded on dorsal half by a broad blackish 

 suffusion, third sinuate-curved, running to dorsum before tornus, fourth and 

 fifth extremely short, sixth and seventh slender, confluent beneath apex and 

 running to tornus, interrupted above and below middle ; some dark fuscous suffu- 

 sion extending from beneath fourth and fifth towards middle of termen; cilia 

 leaden-grey, with blackish basal line. Hindwings white ; a small basal patch of 

 blackish suffusion ; a moderate blackish terminal band, attenuated downwards 

 and not reaching tornus ; cilia white, round apex grey, with blackish basal line. 

 Khasi Hills ; one specimen. 



