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Bkngal, Pnsn, bred from larvae mining in leaves of leak {Tectona 

 (jnindia) [Flttclier) ; four specimens. 



Pyroderces peristrepta, n. sp. 



J, 9 mm. Head groj, face snfi'used -with wliifish. Palpi 

 white, secoiid joint with basal half and a subapical ring blackish, 

 terminal joint lined with blackish. Tliorax dark fuscous, patagia 

 white on apex and outer edge. Abdomen light grey. Forewings 

 lanceolate; dark fuscous ; markings white; extreme base while; 

 a sliglitly oblique transverse st reak at ^^ ; a direct streak from 

 costa before middle reaching half across wing, and a small doc 

 beneath it; sliglitly inwards-oblique streaks from costa at | and 

 tornus opposite, nearly meeting ; a small apical spot : cilia grey, 

 baso dark fuscous round apex. Hind wings and cilia grey. 



N.W. India, Tarnab, Peshawar district, in May {Fletcher) ; one 

 specimen. 



Pyroderces lampropeda, n. sp. 



5 . 9 mm. Head fuscous, face paler. Palpi white, second 

 joint with basal half and a subai)ical band blackish, terminal joint 

 lined with black. Thorax dark iuscous. Abdomen dark grey. 

 Porevvings lanceolate; dark fuscons ; markings silvery-white; a 

 rather oblique transverse streak at 1 ; a direct streak from middle 

 of Costa, reaching |^ across wing ; a triangular spot on costa at |, 

 and a small spot on tornus opposite ; an apical dot : cilia grey, 

 base dark fuscous round apex. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Kanaka, Pliaire, in ^inwvcwy {Muxwdl)-^ one specimen. Easily 

 known from the preceding by the absence of white markings on 

 thorax and base of wing. 



Pyroderces catapneiista, n. sp. 



J . 9-11 mm. Head pale ochrcons, crown sometimes tinged 

 with brownish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, anterior edge of terminal 

 joint dark grey. Thorax fuscons, beneath with long expansible 

 light fuscous liairpencil from each side. Abdomen grey, seg- 

 mental margins mixed with whitish, ventral surface vrhitish, with 

 a brush of black scales on each side at base. Porewings lanceo- 

 late, apex rather produced, acute ; fuscous ; a direct transverse 

 white streak at \; opposite irregular cloudy whitish costal and 

 dorsal spots beyond middle ; a small whitish cloudy spot on tornus 

 and a larger one on costa beyond it towards apex, these united by 

 a more or less expressed fine angulated line; plical and second 

 discal stigmata obscure, dark fuscous, partially edged with whitish ; 

 a whitish apical dot : cilia light grey, round apex whitish with a 

 dark fuscous subbasal shade. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Ceylon, Madulsima and Hakgala {Green, Vauijhan, Fletcher)'^ 

 in April, May, and August, four specimens. 



Pyroderces terenopa, n. sp. 

 $ . 13 mm. Head pale ochreoue, crown tinged with brownish. 



