96 ASOPIlDiE. 



fringes of all the wings pale buff ^ traversed by a series of black dashes ou basal half, otherwise 

 smoky grey with silvery tips : secondaries fuliginous brown, with whitish costa : body bronze- 

 brown*. Wings below pale bronze-brown, with white-edged grey discocellular spots and 

 irregular discal stripe; fringes as above: pectus and legs bone-whitish; the femora with a 

 brownish central spot on their inner sides. Expanse of wings 2i millim. 

 Dharmsala. 



The palpi of this species are unusually long for the genus. 



THYSANODESLIA, gen. nov. 



Allied to Nacoleia, but the antennae of the male moniliform, tapering, with fine ciliations, 

 each joint heing terminated by two fine hairs, one from each anterior angle. Type T. prte- 

 feritalis {Asopia? preeteritalis, Walk.). 



In his ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon ' Mr. Moore correctly characterizes the genus Nacoleia ; 

 but, in all probability, his descriptions of the species were drawn up from female examples, 

 and consequently will have to he tran.sferred to the present genus. The males seem to be 

 rare, as both of the specimens collected by Mr. Hocking, viz. "Nacoleia costisignalis " and 

 the following new species, are females. 



Thysanodesma major. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 5.) 



Nearly allied to T. prcxteritaHs, but much larger, less brown in colouring; markings 

 much blacker; the primaries with the costal margin only black-spotted between the two 

 black lines representing the central belt. Expanse of wings 19 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



GADESSA, Moore, 

 Gadessa ? ossea. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 6.) 



Bone- whitish, clouded with patches of grey scales; pattern very similar to Hedylepta 

 vidgalis, but the reniform spot of primaries broad; the orbicular spot nearer to the inner 

 stripe of the central belt, and the outer stripe of the secondaries more irregular and divided 

 in the middle. Expanse of wings 22 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



This species bears considerable resemblance to some of the American forms placed by 

 Ledercr iu his genus Blepkaroiuuntix ; but the structure of the palpi is entirely dissimilar. 



* The abdomen has been stuck on and m:iy not belong to the specimen ; it is pearl-grey, white 

 below. 



