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Proschistis invida, n. sp. 



^ 9. 14-16 mm. Headlight fuscous. Palpi fuscous-whitish, suffusedly 

 spotted with fuscous. Thorax fuscous sprinkled with whitish, and suffusedly 

 spotted with darker fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, poste- 

 riorly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, 

 little oblique ; ochreous-brownish ; costal edge suffused with blackish, and 

 marked with eight or nine pairs of oblique whitish strigulas ; basal patch 

 mixed with black and leaden-metallic, outer edge rounded ; space between 

 this and central fascia mostly occupied by two irregular leaden-metallic 

 striae edged with whitish ; central fascia moderate, mixed with black, posterior 

 edge irregular, with long subcostal and median projections, excavation filled 

 with leaden-metallic ; beyond this a thick double partially whitish-edged 

 leaden-metallic stria, separating into two thick branches to enclose an elongate- 

 triangular pragtornal spot mixed with black ; leaden-metallic lines from last 

 three pairs of costal strigulse converging to a point beneath apex, space between 

 this and preceding srria longitudinally streaked with black suffusion except 

 towards costa : cilia rather dark fuscous, finely sprinkled with whitish points, 

 Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous, with darker subbasal line. 

 Khasis, in September ; four specimens. 

 Asaphistis, n. g. 



AntennBB in ^ strongly fasciculate-ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 second joint triangularly rough-scaled, terminal joint short. Forewings with 

 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings with 3 and 4 remote, 3 from well before angle, 

 5 approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 approximated towards base. (Thorax 

 probably crested, but damaged,) 

 Allied to Proschistis. 

 Asaphistis praiceps, n, sp. 



$. 15-16 mm. Head and palpi fuscous mixed with black. Thorax pale 

 whitish-ochreous, anterior margin fuscous mixed with black. Abdomen grey. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 faintly sinuate, little oblique ; white ; basal patch dark fuscous mixed with 

 blackish, somewhat marked with whitish towards dorsum, outer edge irregular, 

 nearly straight, vertical ; central fascia represented by a small dark fuscous spot 

 on custa, and a dark fuscous dorsal blotch not reaching half across wing 

 but connected with basal patch by irregular dark fuscous suffusion ; some 

 irregular ochreous-f uscous marking in disc beyond middle, and an oval patch of 

 ochreo us- fuscous suffusion above tornus ; a small dark fuscous costal spot be- 

 fore central fascia and four beyond it, last two absorbed in a triangular dark 

 fuscous apical blotch which extends along termen to below middle, more or 

 less dotted with white on termen : cilia fuscous spotted with dark fuscous and 

 white, at termen with a whitish patch, Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 

 Khasis, in September ; two specimens. 

 AriicoUn, Meyr. 

 The following species agrees well in structure with the one described. 



