22 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



basal line. Hiudwings with 3 and 4 short-stalked ; light grey, 

 lighter and thinly scaled near base ; cilia whitish, with dark fuscous 

 basal shade. 



LowEK EuKJiA, Minbu, ia August (Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



Laspeyresia lucida, n. sp. 



J 2 . 8-9 mm. Head and thorax blackish, closely irrorated 

 with yelloAV-whitish. Palpi yellow-whilish, slightly marked with 

 black irroration. Abdomen rather dark grey. Porewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly 

 sinuate, more distinclly in §, somewhat oblique; blackish, scales 

 tipped with yellow-whitish, forming fine and very distinct and 

 reguhir transverse striatiou ; a straight transverse iridescent- 

 silvery-metallic median lino ; a transverse iridescent-silvery-metallic 

 line from | of costa, whitish at costal exti'emity, reaching half 

 across wing, followed in disc by a roundish whitish-yellowish 

 blotch crossed by three fine black longitudinal lines ; three short 

 Avhitish marks on costa posteriorly, first and third terminated by 

 short iridescent-silvery marks ; a transverse-oval coppery-golden- 

 metallic blotch resting on toruus, upper portion very irregularly 

 edged with thick black marking : cilia coppery -grey, with blackish 

 basal line. Hind wings with 3 and 4 connate ; grej', becoming 

 darker posteriorly, thinly scaled towards base ; cilia whitish, with 

 dark grey basal shade. 



S. India, Coimbatore, in November and January, attached to 

 Cassia (FldcJier). 



Laspeyresia stictobathra, n, sp. 



cJ . 9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous. Forewings tri- 

 angular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 

 rather oblique; dark fuscous, basal half lighter, limited by a narrow 

 somewhat oblique dark median fascia whose outer edge is obtusely 

 angulated in middle, followed by a purplish-fuscous fascia ; some 

 purplish-fuscous marking before apex and lower part of termen : 

 cilia fuscous, with blackish basal line narrowly interrupted round 

 termen and tornus so as to form a number of short segments. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate ; rather dark fuscous ; cilia 

 whitish, with fuscous subbasal shade. 



S. India, Coimbatore, in October {Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



Laspeyresia pentasticta, n. sp. 



$ . 9 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen rounded, oblique ; 

 rather dark fuscous ; costa from 3 to | with several excessively 

 fine whitish strigulse ; five or six obscure transverse fasciae of 

 purplish-leaden suffnsion, strongly angulated or bent in middle, 

 last two becoming indigo-blue on upper portion ; between last two 



