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Calcutta and Purneah district, Bengal (Paiva) ; Maskeliya 

 (Pole), Diyatalawa (Fletcher), Ceylon; from March to August, 

 seven specimens. An inconspicuous insect. 



Epithectis telifera, n. sp. 



cf 13 mm. Head, antennae, and thorax whitish. Palpi 

 whitish, second joint externally with a dark fuscous streak. 

 Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa sHghtly arched, apex acute, 

 termen slightly sinuate, very oblique; whitish, with some scattered 

 fuscous and dark fuscous specks ; a line of blackish irroration 

 along fold from | of wing to beyond middle ; a similar line from 

 middle of disc to apex : cilia whitish, at apex with a black basal 

 mark and two dark fuscous lines, on costa with a fuscous basal 

 line. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. 



Darjiling, 6,000 feet, in September, at light (Brunetti) ; one 

 specimen. 



Anacampsis nerteria, Meyr. 

 Calcutta, in September, at light (Paiva). 



Timyra toxastis, Meyr. 

 Tenmalai, W. Ghats, Travancore, in November (Annandale). 



Timyra dipsalea, Meyr. 



Katihar, Purneah district, N. Bengal, in October (Paiva). The 

 female (not previously described) differs from the male in having 

 the palpi simple, and hindwings wholly fuscous. 



Lecithocera itrinea, Meyr. 

 Tenmalai, W. Ghats, Travancore, in November (Annandale). 



Lecithocera triophthalma, n. sp. 



a* . II mm. Head and thorax purplish-fuscous, sides of crown 

 tinged with ochreous-yellowish. Palpi dark fuscous, extreme apex 

 of second joint pale ochreous. Antennae rather dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey, anal tuft pale ochreous. Forewings elongate, 

 rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly 

 straight, rather strongly obhque; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked; 

 rather dark fuscous, somewhat mixed with whitish-ochreous ; 

 stigmata represented by round blackish spots edged with whitish- 

 ochreous, plical beneath first discal; an indistinct whitish-ochreous 

 subterminal line, indented beneath costa, forming a wedgeshaped 

 inwardly oblique mark on costa ; cilia fuscous, base barred with 

 whitish-ochreous. Hindwings pale fuscous ; cilia pale fuscous 

 tinged with yellowish. 



