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posterior patch. Abdomen whitish-grey, anal tuft whitish. Fore- 

 wings lanceolate, apex acutely produced ; pale oehreous-yellowish 

 with a faint greyish tinge ; a small wedgeshaped dark fuscous 

 mark on base of costa ; an elongate dark fuscous mark on costa 

 slightly beyond middle, a smaller one on dorsum nearly opposite, 

 and a dot in disc rather beyond these : cilia pale oehreous- 

 yellowish. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Philippines, Mindanao, Mt. Apo, 65U0 feet, in May {Mounsey) ; 

 one specimen. 



Opogona promalacta, n. sp. 



$ . 14 mm. Head and thorax pale brassy-yellowish, shoulders 

 pale bronzy. Palpi whiti.sh-ochreous, with a bronzy streak ex- 

 ternally. Autonnse wliitish, basal joint dark fuscous above. 

 Abdomen bronzy-whitish-ochreous. Porewings lanceolate, apex 

 considerably produced ; pale brassy-yellowish, with some scattered 

 ferruginous-yellow scales ; three pale greyisli-bronzy costal patches, 

 first narrow, elongate, along basal fourtli, second about middle, 

 shorter, narrow, third at A, small : cilia whitish-grey. Hind-wdngs 

 pale brassy-grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Queensland, Cairns, in October [Lodd) ; one specimen. 



Opogona tergemina, n. sp. 



$ . 9 mm. Head and thorax brassy-yellow, face and fillet 

 brassy-whitish. Palpi and antennae whitish. Forewings lanceo- 

 late; brassy-ochreous-yellow, slightly brownish-tinged in disc 

 posteriorly ; a short fine fuscous mark along costa near base ; 

 short oblique dark fuscous marks from costa in middle, at |, and 

 before apex, and one from dorsum opposite first costal : cilia 

 ochreous-yellow. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



CfirLON, Peradeniya, in November {Rutherford) ; one specimen. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Hieroxestis caenologa, n. sp. 



$ . 10 mm. Head and thorax dark purplish-fuscous, face and 

 fillet white. Palpi white, second joint with a blackish streak on 

 basal half externally. Antennae white. Abdomen dark grey. 

 Forewings lanceolate ; dark purple-fuscous ; a white costal streak 

 from base to 4, attenuated to a point at base, posteriorly widened 

 and becoming whitish-ochreous towards costa, extremity truncate, 

 inwards-oblique, almost interrupted by a quadrate indentation of 

 lower margin in middle of costa ; an ochreous-white apical spot : 

 cilia grey, at apex with an ochreous-white patch. Hindwings 

 shining bronzy, posteriorly suttused with dark purple-fuscous ; 

 cilia grey. 



Qdeensland, Cairns, in November (^Dodd) ; one specimen. 



Hieroxestis horolyca, n. sp. 



2 . 10 mm. Head dark brown, rough scales short, face and 

 fiUet shining white. Palpi ocbreous-whitish, second joint with a 



