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snow-white median fascia, triangularly dilated on costa, anteriorly edged with 

 black and then by a silvery-metallic fascia : cilia white, basal half blackish- 

 grey with a white subbasal line. Hindwings white, pellucid ; apical fourth 

 dark grey extended along costa to middle ; cilia white, on costa to apex 

 dark grey. 



Four specimens, Khasi Hills, in October. Resemblfs N. cassiterites, but 

 recognisable by tufts of ante'-ior legs, white costal spots and white cilia of 

 forewings and smaller dark area of hindwings. 



N-emotok cassiterites, n. sp. 



J^ 14-17 mm., 9 13 mm. Face silvery-metallic, crown whitish, with a fe# 

 black hairs. Palpi moderately long, white, black beneath, with long spread- 

 ing black and white hairs. Antennae whitish, in ^ purple-blackish above and 

 towards base, rough-scaled above near base, in $ thickened with dark purple- 

 grey scales from base to a supramedian patch of spreading black scales. 

 Thorax dark silvery-grey. Abdomen blackish. Posterior tibiae white with 

 broad posterior blackish band, above with long fringe of whitish hairs. Fore- 

 wines elongate, costa moderately arched, apeX obtuse, termen rounded, rather 

 strongly oblique ; 8 and 9 stalked ; purple closely irrorated with silvery-white 

 and black, sometimes towards apex with pale yellowish-, a short black sub- 

 costal dash near base ; a slender white median fascia, edged anteriorly first by 

 a slender black fascia and then a bluish-silVery-metallic fascia, and posteriorly 

 similarly but towards costa only : cilia grey, basal half bluish-sihery. Hind- 

 wings in ^ white, pellucid, posterior half purplish-grey, extending as a pale 

 suffusion along costa towards base, in 9 wholly dark grey ; cilia grey, in ^ 

 white on dorsum and lower half of termen.; 



Twenty-eight specimens, Khasi Hills, from July to Septemberi 

 Nemotois solstitiellus, Wals. 



Of two specimens from Simla, communicated by Major Nurse, one has 7 and 

 8 out of 9 in both forewings, the other has 7 separate, 8 and 9 stalked in one 

 forewing and coincident in the other. Lord Walsingham does not mention the 

 neuration. 



Nemotois seraphias, n. sp. 



X. 17-18 mm. Face brassy-metallic, hairs of croWn yellow mixed with 

 blackish. Palpi rather long, whitish, beneath with long spreading blackish and 

 a few whitish hairs. Antennae whitish, above blackish, towards base purple- 

 tinged. Thorax bright metallic bronze. Abdomen blackish-bronze, Poste^ 

 rior tibise white, with broad posterior blackish band, above with long fringe of 

 white hairs, Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 8 and 9 stalked ; deep yellow ; mark- 

 ings metallic purplish-silver, strongly edged with black ; a subcostal streak 

 from base, curved upwards to costa at | ; two approximated fasciae towards 

 or somewhat before middle, first straight, extended along dorsum to base, 

 second straight or rather curved ; an incurved fascia from | of costa to tornus, 

 continued as a golden-metallic streak along termen to apex : cilia blackish- 



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