TNDTAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 991 



Nemotois cassiterites, n. sp. 



$ 14-17 mm., 9 13 mm. Face silvery-metallic, crown whitish, with a few 

 black hairs. Palpi moderately long, white, black beneath, with long spread- 

 ing black and white hairs. Antenna? whitish, in $ purple-blackish above and 

 towards base, rough-scaled above near base, in 9 thickened with dark purple- 

 grey scales from base to a supramedian patch of spreading black scales' 

 Thorax dark silvery-grey. Abdomen blackish. Posterior tibiae white with 

 broad posterior blackish band, above with long fringe of whitish hairs. Fore- 

 wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex ob + use, termen rounded, rather 

 strongly oblique ; 8 and 9 stalked ; purple closely irrorated with silvery-white 

 and black, sometimes towards apex with pale yellowish • a short black sub- 

 costal dash near base ; a slender white median fascia, edged anteriorly first by 

 a slender black fascia and then a bluish-silvery-metallic fascia, and posteriorly 

 similarly but towards costa only : cilia grey, basal half bluish-silvery. Hind- 

 wings in $ white, pellucid, posterior half purplish-grey, extending as a pale 

 suffusion along costa towards base, in 9 wholly dark grey ; cilia grey, in $ 

 wbite on dorsum and lower half of termen.; 



Twenty- eight specimens, Khasi Hills, from July to September. 



Nemotois solstitiellus , Wals. 



Of two specimens from Simla, communicated by Major Nurse, one has 7 and 

 8 out of 9 in both forewings, the other has 7 separate, 8 and 9 stalked in one 

 forewing and coincident in the other. Lord Walsingham does not mention the 

 neuration. 



Nemotois seraphias, n. sp. 



$. 17-18 mm. Face brassy-metallic, hairs of crown yellow mixed with 

 blackish. Palpi rather long, whitish, beneath with long spreading blackish and 

 a few whitish hairs. Antennas whitish, above blackish, towards base purple- 

 tinged. Thorax bright metallic bronze. Abdomen blackish-bronze. Poste- 

 rior tibige white, with broad posterior blackish band, above with long fringe of 

 white hairs. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; 8 and 9 stalked ; deep yellow ; mark- 

 ings metallic purplish-silver, strongly edged with black ; a subcostal streak 

 from base, curved upwards to costa at \ ; two approximated fasciae towards 

 or somewhat before middle, first straight, extended along dorsum to base, 

 second straight or rather curved ; an incurved fascia from f of costa to tornus, 

 continued as a golden-metallic streak along termen to apex : cilia blackish- 

 grey, base coppery-golden, tips pale. Hindwings white, pellucid, apical third, 

 and costa dark grey ; cilia white, round apex grey. 



Three specimens, Khasi Hills, in October. 



Nemotois fluorites, n. sp. 



$9. 20-21 mm. Head wholly clothed with whitish-ochreous hairs. Palp 

 moderate, above whitish, beneath with long spreading blackish-grey hairsi 

 Antennas whitish, towards base dark purplish grey, in 9 clothed with purple- 

 black scales on basal f . Thorax purple-blackish striped with yellowish 



