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echreous. Thorax whitish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish-yellow-ochreous. 
Forewings light ochreous-yellow, crossed by five rather curved cloudy 
whitish rather thick lines, second and third enclosing a moderate median 
fascia hardly darker than ground colour, widest on third segment ; a small 
whitish spot on costa between third and fourth; fourth line expanded on 
first two segments, and sometimes confluent with fifth on costa: cilia light 
8 hreous-yellowish, with obseure whitish bars on lines, on median fascia 
~ greyish. Hindwings light ochreous-yellow, with four thick curved whitish 
lines, first two enclosing a moderately broad slightly darker antemedian 
fascia ; cilia as in forewings, greyish on antemedian faseia. 
Palni Hills (6,000 feet), and Gooty (Campbell) ; two specimens. 
Orneodes lyristis, a. sp. 
36 13mm. Head white sprinkled with dark fuseous. Palpi moderately 
long, subascending, second joint thickened with dense scales angularly 
projecting at apex beneath, dark fuscous sprinkled with white, terminal 
joint % of second, rather thick, white with dark fuseous median band. 
Antenne whitish-fuseous. Thorax grey sprinkled with dark fuseous and 
white. Abdomen with basal segment dark fuscous, marked with white on 
posterior margin, next four segments blackish, with margins somewhat 
marked with white, remainder ochreous-whitish with a few blackish scales. 
Forewings ochreous-whitish closely irrorated with dark fuscous; three 
blackish marks along costa on anterior half, terminated at each extremity 
by fine white strigule ; a moderately broad nearly straight median fascia, 
edged with dark fuscous and then with fine white lmes, slightly angulated 
near costa, widest on sixth segment; a subquadrate dark fuscous spot on 
costa beyond this, with white lateral margins which are curved round on 
costa so as to be continuous with preceding and following white lines; a 
moderate straight dark fuscous subterminal fascia, edged with fine white 
lines ; a blackish dot at apex of each segment: cilia pale fuscous, with 
whitish bars on lines, on median and subterminal fasciz dark fuscous, on 
space between these pale yellowish between second and third segments, 
and between fourth and sixth. Hindwings whitish, with scattered dots of 
dark fuscous irroration; basal area irrorated with dark fusecous up to 
a moderately broad blackish antemedian fascia edged with white, remainder 
of first two segments also irrorated with dark fuscous, with two white dots: 
eilia fuscous mixed with dark fuscous and barred with whitish, on segments 
3-6 whitish on posterior half with light fuscous bars towards apex. 
Khasis, in May ; one specimen. 
TINEID&. 
Nepticula polydoxa, a. sp. 
g. 8mm. Head pale yellowish. Antenne grey, eyecaps yellow-whitish. 
Thorax dark grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings lanceolate; |dark shining 
purplish grey ; a somewhat oblique bright silvery-metallic fascia at about 4, 
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