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whitish-ochreous-yellowish, irregularly sprinkled with deeper ochreous-yellow 

 scales tipped with dark fuscous : blackish dots at base of costa and dorsum, and 

 a short blackish dash beneath costa near base ; stigmata blackish, plical rather 

 obliquely before first discal, both moderate, second discal large, round ; patches 

 of fuscous suffusion irrorated with blackish towards costa about £ and beneath 

 second discal stigma, varying much in development ; a blackish dot on dorsum 

 before tornus ; an almost marginal series of undefined blackish dots along 

 posterior part of costa and termen, not reaching tornus : cilia whitish-ochreous- 

 yellowish, deeper on basal half, sometimes sprinkled with fuscous. Hindwings 

 grey ; cilia whitish-yellowish, in 9 greyish-tinged, with grey subbasal shade. 

 Khasi Hills, from July to September ; eleven specimens. 

 Apethistis metoeca, n. sp. 



<J $ 14 — 16 mm. Head ochreous- whitish sprinkled with dark fuscous, centre 

 of crown tinged with fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, somewhat sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous, second joint suffused with dark fuscous except apex. 

 Antennas light fuscous. Thorax fuscous, paler-sprinkled. Abdomen fuscous, 

 segmental margins whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen somewhat sinuate, rather 

 strongly oblique ; fuscous, irregularly sprinkled with paler and dark fuscous, 

 appearing grey ; costa anteriorly suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous, with a 

 short dark fuscous dash beneath costa near base ; stigmata moderate, dark 

 fuscous, plical obliquely before first discal ; a streak of fuscous suffusion 

 irrorated with dark fuscous from f of costa to above second discal stigma ; 

 a spot of dark fuscous suffusion on dorsum before tornus ; an almost marginal 

 series of undefined dark fuscous dots along posterior fourth of costa and termen : 

 cilia pale greyish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled with fuscous. Hindwings grey ; 

 cilia light grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, from January to August ; twelve specimens (Pole). Very 

 like alienella, but is a grey species, whilst alienella is brownish-ocbreous in 

 general colouring. 



