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124. Lasioedma floccosa Bpec. nov. 



Forewing : dark brick-red; costa dotted black and white, with outwardly 

 oblique whitish streaks from it : lines waved, black and white, basal and 

 antemedian and four postruediau ; the outermost insinuate on each fold, the sinus 

 rilled with whitish scales ; submarginal line of white wedge-shaped marks, rilled 

 up with deep black below costa, beyond cell, and on submedian fold and edged 

 outwardly with black : cell-spot large and black ; a blackish shade along outer 

 half of each fold ; space from 5 to 7 between outer and submarginal lines purer 

 red; apex black; marginal line fine, concisely black; fringe reddish, with 

 blackish mottling. 



Hindiving : similar in ?: in the S the Hues are less expressed, but the veins 

 are dotted black and white ; the swollen fold on inner margin is clothed with black 

 and white scales, the furrow being smooth and ochreous ; the fringe of hair on 

 median vein reddish. 



Underside duller, with all the markings blacker and plainer, especially in S ; 

 the hindwing and inner half of forewing whiter; the fold and furrow in 3 glossy 

 ochreous. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish speckled with grey ; anal tuft of 3 

 ochreous ; praeaual segments of dorsum blackish. 



Expause of wings : 30 mm. 



10 3 3, 2 ? ?. 



125. Ochyria auratisquama spec. nov. 



Forewing : brownish fuscous ; all the lines silvery bluish, but apt to be 

 interrupted ; basal patch rather darker, crossed by two and edged by a third 

 bluish line ; central fascia dark brown, edged on each side by a silvery blue line, 

 and with a single line across its middle; the two pale bands on each side formed 

 of gilded yellow scales with two very fine dentate dark lines through each ; 

 submarginal line wavy, lustrous, preceded and followed by brown shades, the 

 marginal shade mixed with golden, especially below vein 4 ; fringe brown, its 

 basal half blotched with blue between the veins, the outer half mottled brown 

 and whitish. 



Hindwing: pale grey, rather bronzy; the fringe rufous. 



Underside olive-grey ; some bluish white scales along outer margin and fringes; 

 the hindwing with the curved cross-lines accompanied by whitish scales. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen a mixture of brown, yellow, and lustrous blue 

 scales. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



4 33, 4 ? ?. 



120. Ochyria prodiga spec. nov. 



Very close to O.fulvietriga Warr., of which eight examples, quite typical, have 

 been received from the same locality as the present species. It differs in bavin" 

 all the markings more waved and sinuate instead of straight and exact : the lustrous 

 tints stronger, especially in the outer half of wing; the hindwing dark slaty 

 grey, like the underside of both wings. .Superficially it might be mistaken for 

 Xenoclystia itnipuncta, but the different antennae will distinguish it. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



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