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scattered fuscous scales, costa ochreous-tinged, dorsal half suffused with light 

 fuscous ; very small fuscous spots on costa at f and |, giving rise to indistinct 

 oblique series of fuscous dots on costal half of wing ; cloudy subtriangular 

 spots of dark fuscous suffusion on dorsum before middle and at | ; a terminal 

 series of minute dark fuscous dots : cilia whitish, tinged with fuscous towards 

 tornus. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia whitish with grey subbasal line. 

 Khasi Hills ; two specimens (Swinhoe). 



Elachistidae. 



Stathmopoda Tiexatyla, n. sp. 



^$,18-20 mm. Head yellow-ochreous, face paler. Palpi whitish-ochre- 

 ous, base dull bronzy-grey. Antennae pale ochreous, ciliations in ^6. 

 Thorax yellow-ochreous, with three anterior leaden-grey spots. Abdomen 

 whitish-grey. Posterior tibi« and tarsi at apex of joints with grey spots and 

 expanded whorls of yellow-ochreous scales. Forewings linear-lanceolate, 

 widest near base, attenuated to acute and slightly curved apex ; deep ochreous- 

 yellow ; three round ra3tallic leaden-grey spots in disc, first almost basal, 

 second at ^, third at | : cilia pale greyish-ochreous to grey. Hindwings linear, 

 cilia 8 ; pale grey ; cilia pale greyish-ochreous or greyish. 



Maskeliya and Madulsima, Ceylon, in April, July, and October ; four speci- 

 mens (Pole, Vaughan). 



Stagmatox>liora arachnitis, n, sp. 



^$. 14-17 mm. Head and thorax ferruginous-ochreous, face whitish, 

 sides of crown slenderly white. Palpi whitish, second joint ferruginous 

 except apex, terminal joint longer than second, with base and two bands 

 blackish. Antennae white, with blackish annulations connected by a blackish 

 line. Abdomen grey, basal half golden-ochreons. Forewings lanceolate, 

 apex slightly curved ; 7 and 8 out of 6 ; ferruginous-brown ; very slender 

 white lines finely edged with black as follows, vis,, an irregular line from 

 beneath base of costa to ^ of disc, nearly meeting at an acute angle an oblique 

 white mark beneath fold, a line along fold from base to beyond middle, a line 

 along costa from near base to |, where it forms a transverse white posteriorly 

 black-edged mark reaching nearly half across wing, and an irregular angulated 

 line from beneath costa at ^ through disc almost to apex of this mark ; a sub- 

 triangular leaden-grey-metallic laterally black-edged spot beneath this mark, 

 separated from it by a light ferruginous-ochreous spot ; some irregular marks 

 between this and apex, and an elongate apical spot light ferruginous-ochreous, 

 surrounded with fuscous suffusion ; a transverse black mark from costa at |, 

 edged posteriorly with whitish : cilia ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous 

 towards base, beneath tornus greyer. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in January, February, May, and July ; six specimeng 

 (Pole). 



Stagmatophora notochorda, n. sp, 



^9. 10-13 mm. Head, palpi and antennae ochreous-whitish, terminal joint 

 of palpi with dark fuscous anterior line except towards base. Thorax light 



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