536 EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPIEEA. 



dark grey, apical third white. Otherwise as in S (hiudwings 

 missing). 



Palestine, Haifa, May (Buxton) ; 3 ex. Type Brit. Mus. 



Nemotois neurias, n. sp. 



cJ 5 . 10-12 mm. Head orange, crown in c? mixed black, face 

 golden-bronze, eyes in cf very large, approximated above. Palpi 

 yelloAv, in J mixed blackish. Antennae slender, without rough 

 scales. Thorax dark greyish-bronze. Posterior tibiae in c? with 

 long scanty dark grey hairs. Forewings rather short, dilated, 

 terraen obliquely rounded; bright deep coppery-purple sprinkled 

 golden ; basal ^ except costal edge shining ochreous-yellowish, on 

 lower half irrorated dark purple-fuscous, on u})per half longi- 

 tudinally striated black ; a narrow direct ochreous-yellow median 

 fascia idged black ; a trapezoidal patch of mixed ochreous-yellow- 

 ish and blackish scales resting on upper half of termen, connected 

 by a bar with costa beyond fascia : cilia coppery or purple. Hind- 

 wings dark grey, in c? lighter and thinly scaled anteriorly ; cilia 

 grey, a dark grey basal shade. 



Madras, Palnis, 7000 feet, August {Fletcher) ; 6 ex. 



Nemotois chrysogona, n. sp. 



(5 . 12-13 mm. Head black, a line of minute yellow specks on 

 side of crown, face shining bronze, eyes very large, nearly approxi- 

 mated above. Palpi pale yellowish with blackish hairs. Antennae 

 without rough scales. Thorax golden-bronze with blackish streaks. 

 Posterior tibiae with long thin grey hairs. Forewings more 

 elongate than in nenrias, dilated, termen obliquely rounded ; a 

 straight-edged bronzy-greyish-ochreous basal patch occupying | of 

 wing, costal edge purple becoming brassy-metallic at base, a black 

 subcostal line from base to ^ edged purple beneath ; beyond this 

 a coppery-golden fascia, then a narrow direct bronzy-greyish- 

 ochreous postmedian fascia edged black, followed by another 

 copperj'-golden fascia not reaching costa ; rest of wing bronzy- 

 ochreous mixed black, with purple-golden spots on costa and 

 tornus and at apex : cilia coppery-golden-bronze. Hindwiugs 

 prismatic-purple-grey, thinly scaled, darker posteriorly ; cilia grey. 



Madras, Nilgiris, Ootac:imund, 9000 feet, October (Maxivell); 

 Kotagiri, 6000 feet, September (Fletcher) ; 4 ex. 



Nemotois xanthargyra, n. sp. 



c? 2 . 12-13 mm. Crown in ,S blackish, $ orange, face brassy- 

 metallic, eyes in c5' very large, nearly approximated above. Palpi 

 very short, in S with long blackish hairs, in $ with yellowish 

 hairs. Antennae in J' thickened with dark grey somewliat rouo-h 

 scales on basal eighth, in J 1|, basal half thickened with dense 

 dark purple-fuscous scales, above this a whitish band. Thorax 

 golden-metallic. Forewings rather elongate, dilated, termen 



