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a transverse silvery-white mark in disc before middle, and an oblique mark 

 before apex, apparently only in $ ; sometimes several dots of raised black 

 scales in disc : costal cilia ferruginous-orange throughout from base to 

 apparent apex, beneath this fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia grey, 

 base darker, round apex whitish or orange-tinged. 



Eighteen specimens, Khasi Hills, in June. This ia a highly variable species^ 



but easily recognised. 



PHALONIADiE, 



Meridarchis bryodes, n. sp. 



^9, 19-21 mm. Head and thorax whitish tinged with green, and some- 

 what sprinkled with grey. Palpi white, basal and lower half of second joint 

 blackish-grey. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, somewhat 

 dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather 

 oblique ; green- whitish, sprinkled with dark grey ; costa and termen dotted with 

 blackish ; a blackish transverse bar on end of cell, parallel to termen ; a spot 

 of dark grey suffusion on dorsum towards tornus ; an irregular ill-defined sub- 

 terminal line of dark grey suffusion from | of costa to tornus : cilia grey 

 barred with whitish. Hindwings and cilia light grey. 



Two specimens, Khasi Hills, in June. 



Gelechiad^, 



Ypsolophus ochroplianes, n. sp. 



^9. 11.13 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous-yellow, crown centrally 

 greyish-tinged. Palpi blackish-grey sprinkled with whitish, tuft long, terminal 

 joint ochreous-whitish, anterior edge blackish. Antennae whitish-ochreous, 

 ringed with blackish. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa 

 moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; 

 ochreous-yellow ; dorsal half of wing, a patch on costa beyond middle, a cloudy 

 subterroinal line, and a streak along termen more or less irrorated with fuscous, 

 sometimes largely suffused together ; discal stigmata blackish : cilia ochreous- 

 yellowish. Hindwings light grey, veins dark grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Seven specimens, Ambulangoda and Puttalam, Ceylon ; Pusa, Bengal ; from 

 August to November (Pole, Maxwell-Lefroy). 

 Ypsolophus erklanlis, n. sp. 



^9. 17-20 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish irrorated with lighfi 

 fuscous, thorax sometimes partially suffused with rather dark fuscous. Palpi 

 dark fuscous sprinkled with whitish, tuft long, terminal joint white with 

 three black lines. Antennse pale greyish-ochreous dotted with dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wings elongate, rather 

 narrow, slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen hardly 

 sinuate, oblique ; light greyish-ochreous irrorated with fuscous and sometimes 

 a few blackish scales, sometimes yellowish-tinged ; costa obliquely strigulated 

 with blackish from base to beyond middle ; stigmata formed by blackish irrora- 

 tion, plical beneath first discal, usually also an additional dot in disc at \, and 

 sometimes one beneath second discal ; a row of blackish dots along posterior 



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