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dot, followed by a black dot connected by a line with a black apical dot : cilia 

 pale greyish-ochreous, round apex with a blackish-grey line. Hindwings J, 

 cilia 6 ; light grey, thinly scaled, apex tinged with orange ; a blackish apical 

 dot ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous, at apex with postmedian blackish dot. 



Khasi Hills, from June to November ; Maskeliya, Ceylon, in April (Pole) ; 

 seven specimens. Very similar to T. saulotis, but the latter is easily distin- 

 guished by the differently shaped forewings, with well-defined prominent 

 tornus. 



Thiotricha epiclista, n. sp. 



$. 9 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae whitish ; terminal joint of palpi dark 

 grey towards apex anteriorly, nearly twice as long as second. Thorax pale 

 shining grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, very narrow, attenuated 

 from near base, apex round-pointed, termen very oblique ; 6 and 9 out of 7 ; 

 shining dark grey ; an orange patch occupying apical third of wing, not reaching 

 margins except at apex and tornus, enclosing a wedge-shaped blackish terminal 

 streak, and with its anterior end indented by an acute triangular projection of 

 ground colour ; a blackish streak crossing this patch from near lower anterior 

 angle almost to apex, and a blackish longitudinal dash above this ; three white 

 dots on costa posteriorly, and a black apical dot ; some indistinct whitish dots 

 or strigulas on dorsum posteriorly and termen : cilia grey, round apex with a 

 darker shade. Hindwings h, cilia 6 ; rather dark grey, cilia grey, at apex 

 with a postmedian blackish dot. 



Khasi Hills, in September ; one specimen. 



Thiotricha acrantha, n. sp. 



$. 10 mm. Head, palpi, antennas, and thorax ochreous-whitish ; second 

 joint of palpi grey, with a few long expansible hairs at its apex above. Ab- 

 domen pale grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, very narrow, 

 long-pointed, acute ; 6 and 9 out of 7 ; shining ochreous-whitish ; an acutely 

 angulated whitish line from | of costa to tornus, edged anteriorly on upper half 

 by a blackish streak, elsewhere indistinctly with fuscous, angle nearly reaching 

 apex ; apex faintly rosy-tinged ; small blackish dots at apex and on termen 

 towards apex : cilia pale whitish-ochreous, at apex with a grey median line ; 

 apex of wing beneath distinctly rosy-tinged. Hindwings §, cilia 4 ; light grey 

 thinly scaled towards base ; a dark grey apical dot ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous. 

 at apex with dark grey postmedian dot. 



Khasi Hills, in September ; one specimen. 



Thiotricha characias, n. sp. 



#$. 13-14 mm. Head and antennas white. Palpi white, anterior edge of 

 terminal joint blackish. Thorax and abdomen ochreous-grey-whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, very narrow, parallel-sided, apex round-pointed, termen some- 

 what sinuate beneath apex, very oblique ; 6 out of 7, 9 separate ; pale greyish- 

 ochreous ; dorsum in ft slenderly suffused with fuscous ; a slender very oblique 

 blackish streak from near dorsum in middle, reaching § across wing ; apical 

 fourth more or less infuscated, browner towards termen ; a whitish wedge-shaped 



