kucosmid-t:. riol 



Ar^yroploce pertexta, n. sp. 



d" 5 . 18-22 mm, Head, palpi, thorax dark fuscous. Forewings 

 dilated, termen straiglit, little oblique ; blackish, in 9 suffusedly 

 mixed deej) ferruginous on apical area and slightly elsewhere; 

 numerous oblique irrei^ular series of small violet-leaden spots and 

 marks, upper half of central fascia defined bj' being free from 

 those: cilia dai'k leaden-grey, with some whitish specks, basal half 

 5 mixed ferruginous. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey, a darker 

 subbasal shade. 



SlKKiM, Darjiliiig (Fletcher) ; 2 ex. 



Pammene quercivora, n. sp. 



2 . 8-9 mm. Head, thorax dark violet-fuscous, face and palpi 

 ochreous-whitish. Eorewings dilated, termen nearly straight, 

 obli(pie ; 7 to costa ; dark fuscous ; basal area suffused violet- 

 leaden ; a rather strongly excurved median fascia formed of two 

 subcontluent pairs of nearly coalesced violet-leaden striae, terminated 

 on costa by two pairs of whitish strigulie ; beyond this a group of 

 five white costal stiigulae, from which an excurved viokt-leaden 

 streak runs to tornus : cilia light leaden-grey, Hindwings 3 and 4- 

 stalked; dark fuscous; cilia grey, a dark fuscous basal line. 



Assam, Shillong, 5000 feet, July, bred from larvae on leaves of 

 Qmrcus Griffithi [Fletcher) • 2 ex. 



Laspeyresia capparidana Zell. 



BioNGAL, Pusa (Fletcher); 2 c? , l>red September from larva3 

 boring top .shoots " baguali " {Capparis sp.)&ve very small (7 mm.) 

 and dark, without the usual whitish-ochreous suffusion of fore- 

 wings, hindwings dark with ba^al fifth whitish ; 2 taken February 

 are larger (8-10 mm.), the whitish-ochreous streaks and sutiusion 

 well-developed, but with basal half of hindwings white (not grey as 

 in European examples). I am unable to discover other distinctions, 

 and am disposed to regard all those at present as belonging to one 

 variable species, perhaps susceptible to climatic and seasonal 

 iiitluences, and to the effect of nourishment on different species of 

 Cupi>aris. 



Laspeyresia leptogramma Meyr. 

 Madras, Madura, October (Maxivell) . Described from S. Africa. 



Laspeyresia heteropa, n. sp. 



J . 11mm. Head, palpi, thorax grey speckled whitish. Fore- 

 wiugs slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, termen faintly sinuate, 

 somewhat oblique ; grey closely speckled whitish ; costa dark 

 fuscous with paired strigulse of whitish irroration ; basal patch 

 somewhat mixed fuscous and dark fuscous, edge irregular, angulated 

 in middle ; central fascia oblique, irregular-edged, fuscous speckled 

 whitish ; posterior margin of ocellus silvery, preceded by four linear 



