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apex ; rich brown ; a loaden-grey basal patch, outer edge anguhated, cut by a 

 streak of gi-ound colour above middle ; seven pairs of minute -white costal stri- 

 gula;, separated with blackish, and giving rise to leaden-grey streaks, first two 

 subeonfliicnt, very strongly langulated in disc, where they are connected by a 

 streak with angle of basal patch, surrounded on dorsal half by a broad blackish 

 suffusion, third sinuate-curved, running to dorsum before tornus, fourth and 

 fifth extremely short, sixth and seventh slender, confluent beneath apex and 

 running to tornus, interrupted above and below middle ; some dark fuscous suffu- 

 sion extending from beneath fourth and fifth towards middle of termen; cilia 

 leaden-grey, with blackish basal line. Hind wings white ; a small basal patch of 

 blackish suffusion ; a moderate blackish terminal band, attenuated downwards 

 and not reaching tornus ; cilia white, round apex grey, with blackish basal line. 

 Khasi Hills ; one specimen. 



""T^T" Laspeijresia callisphena, n. sp. 



;r 9 . 10-1 1 mm. Head leaden-grey, forehead and sides yellow, face whitish'. 

 Palpi pale yellow. Thorax bluish-leaden. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely round- 

 ed • bluish-lcaden-grey, posterior half suffused with blackish ; six oblique pale 

 yellow wedge-shaped marks from posterior half of costa, surrounded with black, 

 each pair of murks terminating beneath in a short violet-metallic mark ; an 

 oblique violet-metallic bar from middle of dorsum, broadly edged with black 

 anteriorly, reaching more than half across wing ; beyond this two converging 

 pale yellow wedge-shaped marks from dorsum, reaching half across wing, some- 

 times united above, surrounded with black suffusion ; a transverse violet-metal- 

 lic bar above tornus, not quite reaching it : cilia bluish-leaden-grey, Hindwings, 

 dark fuscous ; cilia light grey, with a blackish basal line, tips blue-whitish. 



Khasi Hills, in September and October ; fifty specimens. 



Laspeyresia isucma, n. sp. 

 /, , \^ ' -r ^ 9-10 mm. Head rather dark bronzy-fuscous, face and palpi whitish. 



^ Thorax and abdomen dark bronzy-fuscous, Forewings elongate, somewhat 

 2 > , t^o^' '7'' dilated, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat obliquely round-, 

 ed • dark fuscous, with prismatic reflections ; nine well defined short oblique 

 whitish streaks from costa between i and apex, second, fourth, sixth, and ninth 

 emitting indistinct short bluish- leaden-metallic streaks ; a patch of four 

 indistinct fuscous-whitish obUque striga3 from about middle of dorsum, reach- 

 ing about half across wing ; ocellus narrow, obscurely margined with bluish- 

 leaden-metallic : cilia fuscous, with blackish basal Une, Hindwings dark 

 fuscous ; cilia grey, with dark fuscous basal lino. 



Khasi Hills, in May and September ; fifteen specimens. 



Lanpeyreda ochropa, Meyr, 



{Lipoptycha oc/iroj^a, Meyr., Journ, Bombay N. H. Soc. XVI,, 587.) 



This species should bo referred here; veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings are 

 separate but not parallel as in Lipoptycha, and the different palpi afford JV 

 reliable character. 



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