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streak along apical } of cost a : cilia whit ish, on costa grey with a 

 blackish basal sharle, at apex with a dark grey projecting bar, 

 beneath tornus liglit greyish. Hiudwings grey ; cilia liglit grey. 

 CooRQ, Dibidi, 3500 ft., in February {^'e^vcome) ; one specimen. 



Cosmopteryx zathea, n. sp. 



cfT 2 . 9 miu. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark bronzy-fuscons. 

 Palpi black lined with white. Antennoe black ringed with white, 

 towards a])ex with a black band of several joints. Posterior tarsi 

 rather thickened with scales. Forewings very narrow, pointeil, 

 caudate ; black ; two snow-white dots transversely placed in disc 

 at I ; slender transverse brilliant violet-silvery-metallic fasciae 

 with brassj^-green retlections at middle and f, first straight, second 

 slightly incurved and slightly inwards-oblique from costa, space 

 l)etween these tinged with bronzy; a short violet-silvery-metallio 

 dash towards apex : cilia dark fuscous, at apex with two white dots 

 longitudinally placed. Hindwings blackish; cilia dark fuscous. 



CooRG, Pollibetta, in November (Fletcher)', two specimens. 



Pyroderces sopMsta, n. sp." 



S. 9 mm. Head white, back of crown ochreous-grey. Palpi 

 white, second joint with fuscous subapical ring, ter^ninal joint 

 with two incomplete dark fuscous rings. Thorax rather dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen bronzy-ochreous. Forewings narrowly elon- 

 gate-lanceolate, apex slenderly produced ; dark bronzy fuscous ; 

 several fine white lines very finely edged with black, viz. one along 

 costa from near base to posterior band, one along dorsum from near 

 base to near band, one along fold almost throughout, one somr- 

 what sinuate oblique from near base of costa to disc before middle, 

 and one sinuate oblique from beneath middle of costa to middle 

 of posterior band ; a small white spot or bar above dorsum before 

 middle; a very pale yellow blotch extending from tornus to near 

 apex and reaching nearly to costa, limited anteriorly by a straight 

 transverse silvery-white line followed on costa by a direct black 

 strigula and then by a white spot, and above dorsum by a blaek 

 dot,%lotch connected with costa near apex by two obli(iue whitisli 

 marks : cilia yellow-whitish, on costa and beneath tornus greyish. 

 Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



Ceylon, Madulsima, in May {Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



Pyroderces ampMpterna, n. sp. 



S . 12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreons, 

 terminal joint with two very fine oblique dark fuscous rings. 

 Thorax dark fuscous somewhat mixed with whitish. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings narrow-lanceolate, apex slenderly 

 produced; dark fuscous; strong scale-projections from i and | of 

 dorsum ; an oblique dentate white line from | oi costa reach- 

 ing half across wing; an obli(]ue whitish-yellowish mark above 

 dorsum about middle ; a very fine sinuate white line from beneath 



