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Abdomen dark grey, beneath whitish with lateral series of oblique dark grey 

 lines. Legs white, tarsi spotted with blackish, anterior and middle fe- 

 mora crimson, anterior and middle tibias banded with crimson. Forewings 

 very narrowly elongate, parallel-sided, rather short-pointed, apex round-pointed ; 

 crimson, small yellow spots on costa and dorsum near base, and two others 

 longitudinally placed beneath costa ; three broad-triangular yellow dorsal spots, 

 hardly reaching half across wing ; strong oblique yellow streaks from costa at | 

 and I , second reaching more than half across wing, between these a small 

 yellow subcostal spot ; beyond the second are five similar approximated 

 yellow or yellow-whitish streaks diminishing in length posteriorly, last extre- 

 mely short, separated by a few black scales ; apical area suffused with 

 brownish-ochreous, on termen greyish-tinged ; a minute black apical dot : 

 cilia crimson, towards tornus grey, round apex marked with yellowish, and 

 with a black median spot opposite apex. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia 

 grey. 



Khasi Hills, in July ; one specimen. 



Gracilaria octopunetata, Turn. 



{Gracilaria octopunetata. Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 1894, 123.) 



Pusa, Bengal (Lefroy) ; Khasi Hills ; N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome) , in 

 August and September. Also occurs in Australia. 



Gracilaria parasticta, n. sp. 



$. 15 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, face pale-ochreous mixed with brown- 

 ish. Palpi pale ochreous mostly suffused with fuscous. Antennas greyish - 

 ochreous suffusedly ringed with dark fuscous. Thorax brown, with a broad 

 whitish dorsal stripe. (Abdomen broken.) Anterior and middle femora and 

 tibias suffused with dark fuscous, tarsi whitish, posterior legs pale ochreous 

 sprinkled with dark fuscous. Forewings very narrowly elongate, rather long- 

 pointed, acute ; rather deep ochreous-brown, with some fine scattered dark 

 fuscous scales ; a narrow ill-defined pale ochreous streak along dorsum from base 

 to tornus; plical and first discal stigmata large, dark fuscous, plical rather oblique- 

 ly before first discal : cilia brown, on upper portion of termen with outer half 

 paler and irrorated with blackish, towards tornus grey. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey , cilia grey. 



Khasi Hills, in February ; one specimen. 



Gracilaria ar galea, n. sp. 



ft. 9 — 10 mm. Head and thorax grey, face paler or whitish. Palpi whitish, 

 second joint sprinkled with blackish-grey towards apex, terminal joint with base 

 and a subapical band blackish. Antennas grey, obscurely pale-ringed. Abdo- 

 men grey, beneath whitish. Anterior and middle femora and tibias blackish, 

 tarsi white, posterior tibias greyish, tarsi white ringed with black. Forewings 

 very narrowly elongate, moderately pointed, apex round pointed ; dark purple- 

 fuscous irregularly irrorated throughout with whitish, most distinctly spotted 

 on middle of costa : cilia grey, round apex with several dark-fuscous lines. 

 Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



