EUCOSMID.'E. 527 



lines, Hindwin<*s fuscous, tcrmeu suffused dark fuscous ; cilia 

 whitish, two dark fuscous lines. 



Pdnjab, Murree, 7500 feet, June (Didt) ; 1 ox. 



Hemimene neotricha, n. sp. 



d" ?. 8-9 mm. Head pale yellowish-grey, face whilisli- 

 ochreous. Palpi pale j^ellowish, apex dark violet-grey. Tliorax 

 rather dark fuscous, patagia streaked ochreous, Forewings rather 

 elongate-triangular, costa c? with moderate fold from base to | 

 filled with long expansible whitish hairs, terraen indented beneath 

 apex, then rather obliquely rounded ; dark fuscous, on basal area 

 and dorsal half throughout irregularly strigulated transversely 

 ochreous ; posterior half of costa with three pairs of small whitish 

 strigulae, long oblique blue-leaden strigaj from first and third of 

 these, and two strong rather oblique wedgeshaped white strigulae 

 before apex, costal area on posterior half suffused ochreous- 

 orange; a pale yellowish dash on subapical indentation ; three 

 black dots on lower part of termen : cilia leaden, a daik fuscous 

 basal lino. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia grey, a dark fuscous 

 basal line. 



Peru, Iquitos, May (Parish) ; 3 ex. The only South American 

 species of the genus in which I have observed a costal fold. 



Hemimene psacastis, n. sp. 



cJ $. 9-11 mm. Head violet-grey. Palpi greyish, beyond a 

 pale yellowish median sj)ot deep violet-blue. Thorax dark grry 

 speckled ochreous-whitish. Eorewings somewhat elongate-tri- 

 angular, costa towards apex rather abruptly arched, teruien 

 indented beneath apex, theu rounded -prominent ; dark grey 

 closely and finely speckled ochreous-whitish, terminal third lighter 

 except on costa aud with several interrupted grey strise; three or 

 four very oblique irregular leaden-bluish strigie from costa 

 posteriorly ; a curved subterminal series of about 12 indistinct 

 blackish dots, towards costa sometimes striguliform : cilia pale 

 leaden-grey, a darker subbasal line. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia 

 as in forewings, 



Brazil, Para, Manaos, July, November (Parish) ; 5 ex. 



Hemimene thylacura, n. sp. 



cj . 9 ram. Head violet-grey. Palpi greyish-violet, second 

 joint with light ochreous-yellowish spot. Thorax grey, speckled 

 whitish. Abdomen elongate, slender, at apex some white scales, 

 and two expanded black hairpencils above ; uncus long, down- 

 curved, pointed, beneath it a whitish semitransparent bladderliko 

 sac apparently containing dark scales ; gnathos forming two 

 straight slender pointed processes ; valvne long, rather narrow, 

 apex somewhat upcnrved, rounded, lower edge rough scaled. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, termen slightly indented beneath 



