C0SAI0PTEEYG1DJ2. 809 



from I to bcj-oud middle ; a pale yellow blotch extending along 

 termen from toriius to near apex, limited at tornus by a silvery- 

 white mark whose apex is followed by a black dot ; transverse 

 slightly converging black marks margined on each side with white 

 from costa about | and ^, terminated beneath by yellow terminal 

 blotch ; a short fine white longitudinal line in apex : cilia white, 

 at apex and on costa pale brownish-ochreous, towards tornus 

 whitish-oclireous. Hiiidwings grey ; cilia ochreous-grey -whitish. 

 Queensland, Cairns, in INovember (Dodd); two specimens. 



Pyroderces planetopa, n. sp. 



c? . 18 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-brown, face shining 

 white ; thorax with an expansible pencil of hairs from beneath 

 hiudwings. Palpi whitish, second joint tinged with grey, with 

 dark grey subapical ring, terminal joint with base and two broad 

 bands dark grey. Torewings narrow-lanceohite, long-pointed, 

 acute; ochreous-brown ; five very fine white lines, viz., one oblique 

 beneath costa from near base to i, one just beneath costa from 1 

 to first transverse mark, one in disc from beneath apex of first to ?, 

 one slightly sinuate above middle from beyond apex of this to 

 1^, and one along fold from base to near tornal spot ; a semicircular 

 white spot on dorsum before middle, not quite reaching fold ; a 

 whitish-ochreous subtriangular spot on tornus, above with a leaden- 

 metallic mark terminated by a black dot ; a somewhat inwards- 

 oblique dark fuscous mark edged on both sides with white from 

 costa opposite this, and another at f, discal space beneath these 

 suffused with light fuscous ; a small cloudy dark fuscous sjsot ou 

 termen beneath second : cilia light ochreous-brownish. Hindwings 

 grey ; cilia pale grey, round apex and on lower half of termen and 

 dorsum pale yellowish. 



Ceylon, Maskoliya, in January (Pole); one specimen. 



Pyroderces molybdaula, n. sp. 



J 5 . 12-15 mm. Head shining whilish-ochreous, face whitish. 

 Palpi whitish, second joint tinged with ochreous, terminal joint 

 with base and two oblique rings dark grey. Thorax ferruginous- 

 orange, with four leaden-grey stripes ; in J with an expansible 

 pencil of hairs from beneath hindwings. Abdomen grey, two 

 basal segments light bronzy-ochreous, anal tuft ochreous-Mhitish. 

 Forewings narrow-lanceolate, long-pointed, acute ; ferruginous- 

 orange ; costal edge finely white, towards base grey (in one specimen 

 AvhoUy grej'') ; three longitudinal leaden-grey streaks terminated 

 by apical patch, viz., one costal from i, one from base of costa 

 through disc above middle, its posterior fourth bisected by a fine 

 whitish-yellow line, and the third along fold from base; a fourth 

 streak along dorsum, sometimes obliterated towards middle and 

 with one or two small undefined ochreous-whitish spots in the 

 space left ; a pale ochreous-yellowish apical patch occupying | of 



