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partly margined with irregular black marks : cilia purplish-grey with two dark 

 fuscous shades. Hindwings white ; a broad blackish terminal fascia irregu- 

 larly attenuated downwards, on lower third of termen very narrow or absent ; 

 cilia grey with blackish subbasal line, becoming white on lower half of termen. 



Khasi Hills, from June to September ; five specimens. 



Chlidanotid^e. 



Trymalil/s cataracta, n. sp. 



g. 16-19 mm. Head white, crown mixed with fuscous. Palpi white, 

 upper surface dark fuscous except apex of joints. Thorax white, more or less 

 mixed on back with light fuscous, sometimes speckled with blackish. Abdo- 

 men pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded, slightly indented 

 beneath apex ; white ; a few fuscous dots on costa ; blackish subcostal dots 

 near base and before middle ; a streak of suffused fuscous strigulation occupy- 

 ing dorsal fourth from base almost to tornus, and a similar but fainter and 

 less defined streak extending from dorsum beyond middle to apex of wing, 

 marked with two or three blackish dots and a yellowish discal dot at end of 

 cell; a yellow-ochreous apical spot, enclosing a white longitudinal mark; a 

 submarginal series of blackish dots, followed by a marginal series of small 

 grey spots : cilia white, with two shades of fuscous or dark fuscous irroration. 

 Hindwings and cilia whitish-grey, slightly yellowish-tinged. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in October, November and March ; five specimens ( de 

 Mowbray). Closely allied to T. margarias, but with the colouring of oblique 

 streak much reduced ; easily distinguished by having posterior half of costa 

 white with at most one or two minute fuscous dots, whereas in margarias it 

 is ochreous strigulated with white. 



PLUTELUDyE. 



Yponomeuta corpuscularis , n. sp. 



$. 27 mm. H^ad grey-whitish, forehead with two black dots, centre of 

 crown with some black scales. Palpi grey-whitish, base of terminal joint with 

 a blackish dot. Antennae grey. Thorax grey-whitish, with dots on shoulders, 

 three antemedian, two postmedian dots, and two at posterior extremity black. 

 Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 

 termen obliquely rounded ; grey, irregularly strewn with small white dots, 

 thickest in disc anteriorly, most thinly towards costa between middle and § ; 

 six longitudinal series of small black dots, first of nine dots beneath costa from 

 base to middle, second of ten dots from near base tof , third of three dots before 

 middle and two towards apex, fourth median, of seven dots from near base to 

 middle and three posteriorly, fifth above fold, of twelve or thirteen dots, sixth 

 of ten dots ; three additional dots before termen between fourth and fifth rows ; 

 a small white spot on costa towards apex : cilia grey, towards base mixed with 

 white. Hindwings and cilia slaty-grey ; a moderate roundish rather undefined 

 transparent basal patch. 



Nilgiri Hills (6,000 feet), in May •, one specimen (Andrewes). 

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