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GELECHIAD®. 
Frisilia verticosa, n. sp. 
3. 23-24mm. Head and thorax pale-yellow-ochreous, thorax some- 
times tinged with brownish. Palpi in ¢ ochreous-yellowish, base and 
apex infuscated, in Q with second joint yellowish, basal 3 infuscated, 
terminal joint whitish-ochreous with anterior edge dark-fuscous. Antennw 
whitish-ochreous, more or less infuscated towards base. Abdomen whitish- 
ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, especially in 9, posteriorly 
rather dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, 
rather oblique ; 3 and 4 out of 2, 7 and 9 stalked, 8 absent, yellow-ochreous, 
sometimes partially tinged with brownish, more or less sprinkled with dark-_ 
fuscous ; base of wing in ¢ more or less suffused with dark-fuscous ; first 
discal stigma blackish ; ind a patch of dark-fuseous suffusion along median 
third of dorsum, anteriorly with an oblique extension across fold towards 
base of costa, posteriorly emitting a suffused dark-fuscous streak across 
wing towards costa at 4, more or less obsolescent towards costa, second 
discal stigma sometimes apparent as a darker mark on anterior edge of 
this; in 2 these markings are hardly traceable, but second discal stigma 
is distinct ; a more or less developed streak of fuscous suffusion along 
termen, in @ faint: cilia light yellow-ochreous. Hindwings whitish- 
ochreous, faintly fuscous-tinged towards apex and on termen; a grey 
discal dot on end of cell; cilia pale whitish-ochreous. 
Pykara, Nilgiris, 6,500—7,000 feet, from March to May (Andrewes) ; 
eight specimens. 
Hypelictis albiseripta, u. sp. 
¢. 14mm. Head and thorax dark ashy-fuscous. Palpi with second 
joint bronzy, broadly dilated with appressed scales, strongly compressed 
laterally, terminal joint deep purple, considerably thickened with scales, 
projecting posteriorly towards apex, appearing obtuse. Abdomen fuscous. 
Forewings elongate, narrow, costa ‘slightly arched, apex obtuse, bent 
down, termen obliquely rounded; 6 to apex, 8 absent; dark-slaty- 
fuscous, with violet reflections, veins sprinkled with blackish ; stigmata 
small, whitish, plical beneath first discal ; a very fine interrupted whitish 
line from $ of costa to tornus, obtusely angulated above middle ; a pale 
ochreous apical patch, anterior edge nearly straight, enclosing two or three 
dark-grey longitudinal marks: cilia dark-ashy-grey, round apical patch with 
basal half pale-ochreous barred with dark-grey. Hindwings light-brouzy 
fuscous ; cilia paler, with a basal pale-ochreous dot at apex. 
Anshi, Kanara, bred in January (Maxwell) ; one specimen. Reared from 
a pupa found between closely-spun leaves of Sav; some very young larves 
feeding between similarly spun leaves were probably the same species 
(Maxwell). 
Pachnistis avens, w=sp. +r '4'3- 
9. 13mm. Head and thorax pale-greyish ochreous. Palpi ochreous- 
whitish sprinkled with grey. Abdomen light-grey. Forewings elongate, 
rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; 
pale-greyish ochreous irrorated with hight fuscous ; discal stigmata moder- 
ately large, fuscous, rather appreximated, plical smaller, hardly before first 
discal : cilia pale greyish ochreous sprinkled with pale-fuscous. Hindwings 
ochreous-whitish slightly sprinkled with pale-grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Pusa, Bengal, in June (Fletcher) ; one specimen. 
Pachnistis monodryas, n. sp. 
3 Q. 24-27 mm. Head fuscous, sides of crown orange-ochreous, face 
pale-ochreous. Palpi fuscous, posteriorly light-ochreous. Antenne whitish 
ochreous. Thorax rather dark-purple fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous. 
Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 
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