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Limnoecia asteroleuca, n. sp. 

 cJ . 7 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, face oclirecus- 

 whitish. Palpi whitish sprinkled with grej-. Abdomen grey- 

 Avhitish. Forewings lanceolate; dark fuscous; broad somewhat 

 irregular ochreous-white transverse fasciaj at about ^ and | : cilia 

 pale greyish (imperfect). Hindwings and cilia pale greyish. 



N.W. India, Taruab, Peshawar district, in May [Fletcher) ; one 

 specimen. 



Limnoecia psalidota, n. sp. 



(S 2 • 8-12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous or AA'hitish. Piilpi 

 M'liite, second joint with basal |- and sometimes a subapical ring 

 dark grey, terminal joint with anterior edge blackish on ai)ioal 

 half. Thorax pale ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Pore- 

 wings lanceolate ; rather light reddish-ochreous ; three slender 

 oblique white strigae from costa at \, middle, and |, reaching about 

 half across wing, second variably or sometimes hardly edged 

 anterioi'ly with blackish siiffusion ; a whitish dash below fold 

 before middle ; an oblique blacJiish dash with some white scales 

 in disc beyond middle ; a silvery-metallic mark on tornus, edged 

 with black anteriorly and sometimes connected with preceding; a 

 black dot in disc at |, irregularly edged with silvery-white, some- 

 times connected with second costal striga ; a triangular silvery- 

 white mark on costa at f , edged posteriorly with black, sometimes 

 sending a fine silvery-whitish line to termen above tornus ; a slender 

 white streak along termen : cilia light ochreous, with a blackish 

 basal line round aj)ical part of costa and termen to tornus, towards 

 tornus whitish-suflused. Hindwings in <5 light grey, in 5 dark 

 grey ; cilia grey -whitish or pale grey. 



Bengal, Pusa (Fletcher) ; N.W. India, Abbottabad (Fletcher) ; 

 Kanaka, Hharwar (Maxwell) ; Ceilon, Kegalle (Alston) ; from 

 May to July, six specimens. 



I Limnoecia dasytricha, n. sp. 



cT 2 . 9-10 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi ochreous- 

 whitish, second joint sprinkled with reddish-grey. Thorax light 

 reddish-grey-ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreons. Fore- 

 wings elongate-lanceolate ; pale ochreous suffused with dull rose- 

 pink and sprinkled with grey ; stigmata small, indistinct, fuscous, 

 plical obliquely before first discal ; a blackish apical dot : cilia pale 

 greyish, round apex darker grey. Hindwings grey ; in J clothed 

 above with loose rough pale greyish hairs from base to | ; cilia pale 

 grey. 



Pritish Guiana, Eartica and Mallali, from December to March 

 (ParisJi) ; nine specimens. 



Ehadinastis loraria, n. sp. 

 d $ . 16-22 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous, shoulders 

 sometimes dark fuscous. Palpi pale ochreous, termiual joint in- 



