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termen obliquely rounded; shining white; a ver}' oblique dark 

 fuscous fasciate blotch from dorsum at 3^, reaching more than half 

 across wing, dilated downwards; an oblique wedgcsliapod dark 

 fuscous spot from dorsum at |, its apex confluent with angle of 

 following line; a very oblique wedgeshaped dark fuscous streak 

 from costa at |, its apex sending a dark fuscous line to tornus, 

 thickened and acutely angulated inwards on fold ; a fuscous spot 

 on costa near apex ; a dark fuscous spot on termen beneath apex ; 

 a small black apical spot, preceded and followed by minute white 

 dots : cilia pale greyish, beneath apex a darker patch, at apex two 

 dark grey projecting hooks. Hinduings grey, paler in disc 

 anteriorly ; cilia pale grey, at apex whitish with short black post- 

 median line. 



OooEG, Dibidi, 3500 feet (Newcome) ; Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole) ; 

 January to April, four specimens. 



TMotricha nephodesma, n. sp. 



$. 9 mm. Head, palpi shining whitish. Thorax pale brownish- 

 ochreous. Forewings very narrow, moderately pointed; pale 

 brownish-oehreous ; a very broad irregular-edged suffused somewhat 

 oblique transverse dark fuscous band before middle ; a very tine 

 fuscous median longitudinal line from this to near apex ; apical 

 third of wing suffused whitish ; costal and terminal edges shortly 

 fuscous about | : cilia pale greyish-ochreous. Hindwings grey ; 

 cilia pale ochreous-greyish. 



Assam, Khasis, September; one specimen. 



Thiotricha operaria, n. sp. 



c5' 5 . 13-14 mm. Head shining white. Palpi white, second 

 joint c? with expansible tuft of whitish hairs projecting from 

 furrow beneath. Antennal ciliations 1^ 2|. Thorax greyish- 

 ochreous, anteriorly sufiused while. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 

 ochreous-whitish. Forewings very narrow, widest near base, thence 

 narrowed to pointed apex ; light grey, obscurely darker-streaked 

 longitudinally : costal edge blackish towards base ; a blackish 

 streak along fold towards base ; an inwardly oblique blackish 

 transverse line at 5, dentate outwards beneath costa, inwards 

 in disc, very sharply outwards on fold, and inwards above 

 dorsum, strongly edged posteriorly white ; three variable 

 irregular blackish spots beneath middle of disc, on tornus, and 

 before apex respectively, separated by white suffusion ; apex 

 whitish : cilia light grey. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Assam, Khasis, October, November; sixteen specimens. 



Thiotricha polyaula, n. sp. 

 c? $. 12-13 mm. Head shining ochreous-whitish. Palpi whitish, 

 base dark fuscous, second joint 6 short, with apical pencil of 

 whitish liairs above, terminal much longer, anterior edge dark 

 fuscous, in J thickened. Antennal ciliations (S 4. Thorax 

 ochreous-whitish, with four brown lines. Abdomen fuscous, 



