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towards apex, third to seventh pairs emitting oblique blue-Ieaden-metaUic 

 Btroaks, sixth very short, seventh running to termen beneath apex, pra);ipical 

 Btrigula terrainating iu » blue-leaden-metallie dot ; two oblique blue-leaden 

 metallic lines from dorsum near middle, converging upwards and nearly reach- 

 ing streak of fifth pair of costal strigulse ; ocellus margined laterally by strong 

 blue-leaden-metallic streaks, and containing three elongate black dots resting 

 on posterior edge : cilia dark grey, towards base grey-whitish, with a blackish 

 basal line. Iliiidwings in $ with dorsal margin and cilia curved upwards 

 go as to form a groove or pocket ; dark fuscous, becoming blackish-fuscous 

 posteriorly ; cilia grey, with dark fuscous basal line, extreme tips white. 



Khasi Hills, in September ; twenty-five specimens. Very similar to L. 

 tricentra ; this group of closely allied species requires much care in deter- 

 Qiiuation ; the secondary sexual characters of the $ afford easy distinctions, but 

 in the 9 the shape of wings is perhaps the most reliable guide ; in L. 

 darastrepta the forewings are broader and the termen more obviously indented 

 tLan in the others, 



GfELECHIADiE. 



hliopliantis melanosacta, n. sp. 



^ 9. 12-13 mm. Head, palpi, antenna, thorax, and abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous ; terminal joint of palpi with dark fuscous lateral line ; shoulders 

 dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa slightly arched, termen with a deep 

 elliptical excavation between slender acute apical and broader obtuse tornal 

 prominences ; 2 and 3 long stalked, 6 absent ; whitish-ochreous ; an elongate 

 blackish patch extending along costa from base to beyond middle, apex 

 oblique lower edge forming two broad subtriangular prominences reaching 

 about half across wing ; two undefined blackish dots longitudinally placed in 

 disc beyond middle y an angulated whitish line from | of costa to dorsum 

 before tornal prominence, edged with fuscous and on costa with blackish ; a 

 fine oblique parallel fuscous line beyond this on upper half ; a bronzy-metallic 

 dot edged anteriorly with black on termen beneath base of excavation : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous, tips whitish, within excavation with a blackish sub-basal line 

 towards apex of both prominences. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey, round 

 apex with a blackish-grey sub-basal line edged with whitish-ochreous suffusion. 



N. Coorg (3,000 feet), in June ; three specimens (Newcome). 



fdiophanlis chalcura, n.sp. 



$ 15 mm Head greyish-ochreoua, face whitish-ochreous. Palpi bronzy- 

 grey upper edge whitish-ochreous. Antennae whitish dotted with dark grey, 

 towards base lined with black, toward apex with two blackish-grey bands. 

 Thorax light greyish-bronze. Abdomen grey, segmental mavgms ochreous- 

 whitish ba°sal half blackish-grey above. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, 

 costa slightly arched, termen with deep elliptical excavation between slender 

 acute apical and broad rounded tornal prominence ; 2 and 3 separate, 6 

 present • li"ht ocbreous-f uscous, costal half suffused with dark fuscous ; phcal 

 and second discal stigmata large, cloudy, dark fuscous, latter preceded by an 



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