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Laspeyres'ia dissias, n. sp. 



^. 8 mm. Head pale brownish-ochveous, face pale ochreous-yellowish, 

 becoming whitish beneath. Palpi whitish-ochreous. Thorax light fuscous, 

 Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded, distinctly sinuate 

 beneath apex ; rather dark fuscous, base of scales "whitish, appearing finely 

 striated ; five oblique hardly perceptibly double whitish streaks from costa 

 between ^ and |, alternating with dark fuscous streaks, first two terminating 

 in short leaden-metallic streaks, third and fifth in somewhat interrupted bent 

 bluish-leaden-metallic striae running to about tornus; two short whitish 

 costal streaks before apex converging to a bluish-leaden-metallic dot ; dorsal 

 Jialf with more or less indistinct whitish strigse, four towards middle more 

 distinct and forming an oblique patch reaching half across wing ; two black 

 dots resting on termen below middle ; apex ochreous-tinged : cilia light bluish- 

 grey, with black basal line. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia light grey, with 

 dark fuscous subbasal line edged with whitish. 



Barberyn Island, Ceylon : in February ; one specimen (Fletcher). ■ 



Laspeyresia hemidoxa, n. sp. 



,J$. 11-12 mm. Head yellow mixed with blackish. Palpi yellow, with 

 some black scales in middle of second joint. Thorax yellow irrorated with 

 blackish. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen somewhat rounded, rather oblique ; deep coppery- 

 orange or orange-red ; basal half yellow strigulated with black, limited by a 

 thick dark purplish-leaden transverse streak not reaching costa, its posterior 

 edge very irregular ;: posterior half of costa with pairs of obscure whitish 

 strigulse separated with black ; a dark purplish-leaden streak from middle of 

 costa to near termen beneath apex, thence abruptly curved and continued near 

 termen to tornus ; four small dark purplish-leaden spots beneath costa 

 posteriorly ; space between stria and median streak strewn with irregular dark 

 purplish-leaden marks ; a row of irregular blackish dots before termen : cilia 

 ochreous-yellow, irregularly barred with dark leaden-grey, and with a dark 

 leaden-grey basal line. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish, suffused 

 with pale grey towards apex and tornus, with dark grey basal line. 



Khasi Hills, in September ; four specimens. 



Laspeyresia endrosias, n. sp. 



^$. 10-13 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous, closely irrorated 

 with pale greyish-ochreous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewing elongate, 

 posteriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely 

 rounded, sinuate beneath apex ; dark fuscous, basal area as far as a line run- 

 ning from ^ of costa to tornus finely irrorated with pale greyish-ochreous ; re- 

 mainder of wing crossed by irregular curved partly confluent ferruginous-fulvous 

 lines, rising from numerous very fine paired oblique whitish costal strigute, and 

 three bluish-leaden lines, third running to termen beneath apex ; between the 

 first two meLallic lines towards tornus the ground-colour appears as a transverse 



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