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middle of costa to middle of posterior band ; a very broad pale 

 ochreous-yellow transverse band towards apex, not quite reaching 

 costa anteriorly but connected with it by two pairs of silvery-whito 

 marks each including a black dot, anterior edge Avhite and followed 

 towards dorsum by a silvery dot preceding a black dot, tornal 

 edge somewhat marked with silvery ; from band a pale yellowish 

 streak runs into apex, leaving terminal edge blackish on upper 

 half : cilia whitish-oehreous, tinged with grey on costa and 

 beneath tornus. Hindwiugs light grey; cilia ochreous-whitish 

 tinged with grey. 



CooKG, Dibidi, 3500 feet, in February (Xewcome) ; one specimen. 

 The dorsal scale-projections arc a remarkable and peculiar I'eaturc. 



Pyroderces anthinopa, n. sp. 



c? . 10 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-orange, face snow- 

 white. Palpi white, terminal joint with two blackish rings. 

 Antennae white ringed with blackish, on apical half with three 

 blackish bands. Abdomen grey, anal tuft whitish-yellowish. 

 Forewings nari'owly lanceolate, apex long-produced, acute ; ochre- 

 ous-orange; some slight irregular white markings at base; an 

 irregular transverse white streak at | ; a very oblique white lino 

 from middle of costa to tornus, edged with some grey scales, and 

 followed on costa by a patch of dark grey sufiusion ; two tine while 

 dashes (one subcostal, one nearly terminal) about ^, edged with 

 some dark grey scales ; margins towards apex suffused with dark 

 grey : cilia light ochreous-orange, paler and greyish-tinged towards 

 tornus, on costa with a black basal line projecting as a strong apical 

 hook, beneath apes with a patch of white suffusion. Hindwings 

 grey ; cilia light grey. 



Cei'lox, Maskeliya, in December (Pole) ; one specimen. 



Pyroderces caudata, n. sp. 



2 . 10 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-yellow, face whitisli- 

 ochreous. Palpi whitish. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate, 

 apex very long-produced ; yellow-ochreous, greyish-tinged on 

 costal half, extreme costal edge touched with white ; a streak of 

 fuscous irroration along fold from base to beyond middle of wing, 

 and an upcurved line of fuscous irroration with some black scales 

 from extremitj' of this running into apex ; some scattered fuscous 

 scales along dorsum, and a line of irroration along termen : cilia 

 whitish-oehreous, round apex yellow-ochreous. Hindwings grey ; 

 cilia pale greyish. 



Cei'lon, Colombo [Mackwood) ; one specimen. 



Pyroderces sirenia, n. sp. 



2 . 9-10 mm. Head and thorax orange-yellow, face and palpi 

 silvery-whitish. Abdomen whitish-oehreous suffused wit.h liglit 

 grey. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex long-produced, 

 acute ; orange, slightly tinged with grey, ou apical iourth some- 



