144 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVJI1. 



Laspeyresia callisphena, n. sp. 



$ 9 . 10-1 1 mm. Head leaden-grey, forehead and sides yellow, face whitish. 

 Palpi pale yellow. Thorax bluish-leaden. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely round- 

 ed ; bluish-leaden-grey, posterior half suffused with blackish ; six oblique pale 

 yellow wedge-shaped marks from posterior half of costa, surrounded with black, 

 each pair of marks terminating beneath in a short violet-metallic mark ; an 

 oblique violet-metallic bar from middle of dorsum, broadly edged with black 

 anteriorly, reaching more than half across wing ; beyond this two converging 

 pale yellow wedge-shaped marks from dorsum, reaching half across wing, some- 

 times united above, surrounded with black suffusion ; a transverse violet- 

 metallic bar above tornus, not quite reaching it : cilia bluish-leaden-grey. 

 Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia light grey, with a blackish basal line, tips blue- 

 whitish. 



Khasi Hills, in September and October ; fifty specimens. 

 Laspeyresia isacma, n. sp. 



ft 9 . 9-10 mm. Head rather dark bronzy- fuscous, face and palpi whitish. 

 Thorax and abdomen dark bronzy-fuscous. Forewings elongate, somewhat 

 dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat obliquely round- 

 ed ; dark fuscous, with prismatic reflections ; nine well defined short oblique 

 whitish streaks from costa between \ and apex, second, fourth, sixth, and ninth 

 emitting indistinct short bluish-leaden-metallic streaks ; a patch of four 

 indistinct fuscous-whitish oblique strigoB from about middle of dorsum, reach, 

 ing about half across wing ; ocellus narrow, obscurely margined with bluish- 

 leaden-metallic : cilia fuscous, with blackish basal line. Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey, with dark fuscous basal line. 



Khasi Hills, in May and September ; fifteen specimens. 

 Laspeyresia ochropa, Meyr. 



{Lipoptycha ochropa, Meyr., Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. XVI., 587.) 

 This species should be referred here; veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings are 

 separate but not parallel as in lApoptycha, and the different palpi afford a 

 reliable character. 



Laspeyresia dissias, n. sp. 



ft. 8 mm. Head pale brownish-ochreous, face pale ocbreous-yellowish r 

 becoming whitish beneath. Palpi whitish-ochreous. Thorax light fuscous. 

 Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded, distinctly sinuate 

 beneath apex ; rather dark fuscous, base of scales whitish, appearing finely 

 striated ; five oblique hardly perceptibly double whitish streaks from costa 

 between \ and J, alternating with dark fuscous streaks, first two terminating 

 in short leaden-metallic streaks, third and fifth in somewhat interrupted bent 

 bluish-leaden-metallic striae running to about tornus; two short whitish 

 costal streaks before apex converging to a bluish-leaden-metallic dot ; dorsal 

 half with more or less indistinct whitish strigae, four towards middle more 



