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metallic strigze : cilia rather dark purplish-fuscous, with blackish basal line. 
Hindwings with 8 and 4 stalked: dark fuscous, darker posteriorly ; cilia 
fuscous-whitish, violent-iridescent, with dark fuscous basal line. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray) ; Kumaon ; in May, June and 
October, four specimens. Bred from seedlings of Shorea robusta (Indian 
Forest Service). 
Pammene peristictis, n. sp. 
gd. 810mm. Head, thorax and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi rather 
long, porrected, pale ochreous-yellowish, with a dark violet-fuscous oblique 
apical bar. Forewings subtriangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched ; 
apex very obtuse, termen somewhat sinuate beneath apex, vertical ; 7 to 
termen; dark purplish-fuscous, slightly sprinkled with whitish points, with 
some irregular indistinct broken darker transverse striz ; a nearly straight 
blackish stria from costa beyond middle to termen beneath apex ; several 
blackish dots close before termen between this and tornus: cilia purplish- 
leaden-fuscous, with blackish basal line. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked ; 
dark fuscous, basal half suffused with purple-blackish, termen somewhat 
paler-suffused ; cilia fuscous. Undersurface of forewings with a blackish 
patch in middle of disc. 
Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole) ; in March, five specimens. 
Laspeyresia prolopha, n. sp. 
dQ. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax grey with bluish iridescence, thorax 
obscurely barred transversely with darker. Palpi grey mixed with whitish, 
violet-iridescent. Abdomen dark fuscous, in ¢ ochreous-whitish beneath and 
on lateral patches before apex. Forewings suboblong, costa gently arched, 
bent in middle, with a projection of rough scales on bend, apex . obtuse, 
termen slightly sinuate, vertical; dark purplish-fuscous, mostly overlaid 
with bluish-leaden-metallic suffusion, which covers most of basal and costal 
area anteriorly, a patch on middle of dorsum and two patches enclosing 
ocellus ; two very oblique series of short black dashes crossing costal area 
posteriorly, with a blue leaden striga between them; some short whitish 
strigule on posterior half of costa, a pale ochreous dot in disc at 3 : cilia pur- 
plish-fuscous, with blackish subbasal line. Hindwings with 6 and 7 somewhat 
approximated towards base ; dark fuscous, a suffused whitish-fuscous discal 
patch ; cilia white, towards tornus violet-iridescent, with dark fuscous sub- 
basal line. Undersurface of forewings with a whitish streak beneath cell ; 
of hindwings with a whitish subdorsal streak, in g surrounded with black- 
ish suffusion, and a whitish patch in disc. 
Khasis ; in June and July, eight specimens. 
Laspeyresia optica, n. sp. ; 
g. 16mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Palpi fuscous suffusedly irrorat- 
ed with whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, moderate, 
posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, 
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