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light yellow, $ light orange. Hindwings d blackish-grey, 

 suffused wliitish-ochrcous on anterior f except towards margins, $ 

 grey ; cilia whitish-yellowish. 



Ckylon, Naraunukuli, GUOO feet, February {Oreen)', twelve 

 specimens. Very like monctelh, but in that species hindwings c? 

 are almost wholly light ochrcous-yellowish, palpi c? wholly 

 blackish internally, rough scales of second joint only slightly 

 developed, forewings 5 yellow as in cJ , and other differences. 



Encolpotis heliopepta, n. sp. 



$ . 14 mm. Head, thorax purplish-grey, face whitish. Palpi 

 whitish mixed grey, terminal joint grey. Abdomen grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse- 

 pointed, termen sinuate, oblique ; purple-fuscous, rather darker 

 towards costa and termen; stigmata cloudy, obscurely darker, 

 plical beneath first discal, second discal transversely double : cilia 

 ochreous-orange-yellow, deeper towards base, on costa purplish- 

 fuscous, beneath tornus grey. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



Assam, Shillong, 5000 feet, Sejjtember [Fletcher)- one specimen. 

 A very interesting discovery, in all respects closely related to the 

 African species, but conspicuously distinct by the dark grey (not 

 ochreous-whitish) hindwings. 



Lecithocera perpensa, n. sp, 



cJ. 13 ram. Head greyish-ochreous with violet reflections on 

 crown, sides of crown yellowish, face whitish-oclireous. Palpi pale 

 ochreous-yellowish tinged grey. Antenneo pale yellowisli tinged 

 grey, tip dark grey, a])ical joint whitish. Thorax greyish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, anal tuft yellowish. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 nearly straight, oblique; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 long-stalked, 

 7 to apex; light greyish-ochreous, irrorated fuscous; first discal 

 stigma moderate, dark fuscous, second represented by a dark 

 fuscous transverse mark, connected by an indistinct fuscous streak 

 with dorsum beneath it : cilia pale ochreous-yellowish, with some 

 fuscous points. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia pale ochreous-yellowish. 



Assam, Shillong, .5000 feet, September (F/etcJier) ; one specimen. 



Autosticha acharacta, n. sp. 



J 2 • 12-15 ram. Head, thorax ])alo greyish-ochi-eous. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, second joint externally tinged greyish except 

 towards apex. Abdomen J pale gro-yish-ochreous, $ grey. Fore- 

 wings elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, 

 apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; pale ochreous irrorated 

 fuscous ; stigmata small, dark fuscous, plical slightly before first 

 discal, a cloudy dot on dorsum beneath second discal ; an almost 

 marginal series of cloudy dark fuscous dots round posterior part of 

 costa and termen, in $ less distinct ; cilia pale ochreous. Hind- 

 wings light greyish ; cilia whitish-ochreous tinged grey. 



