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posteriorly; subcostal, median, submedian, and subdorsal longitudinal 

 streaks, each broken irregularly into about three segments ; some black 

 scales along termen : cilia pale grey sprinkled with whitish and on basal 

 half with black. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled anteriorly, veins and 

 termen darker ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Gooty (Campbell) ; one specimen. Allied to the European lineatella. 

 Paraspistes tahellata, n. sp. 



c5' . 14 mm. Head and thorax grey sprinkled with whitish, shoulders 

 dark fuscous. Palpi whitish, second joint dark fuscous except apical edge, 

 above with scales broadly expanded towards apex, terminal joint shorter 

 than second, with a few dark grey scales towards apex. Abdomen dark 

 grey, two basal segments pale ochreous, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, very narrow, costa anteriorly gently arched, posteriorly 

 straight, apex round-pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; grey 

 irrorated with white, with scattered black scales, towards costa suflFused 

 with white ; costal edge finely black anteriorly ; a narrow elongate dark 

 brown patch extending along costa from ^ to near apex, attenuated to 

 extremities ; a dark fuscous spot on tornus ; a fine irragular dark fuscous 

 streak along termen not quite reaching this : cilia grey sprinkled with 

 whitish. Hindwings dark grey, thinly scaled in disc anteriorly ; a hyaline 

 space in cell, but covered by a fringe of gr*^y hairs ; cilia grey. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome) ; in August, one specimen. 



Paraspistes aprica, n. sp. 



S . 10 mm. Head and thorax deep yellow-ochreous. Palpi whitish 

 ochreous, second joint f erruginous-ochreous except apex, above with scales 

 shortly expanded towards apex, terminal joint hardly shorter than second. 

 Antennal ciliations 1. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft pale ochreous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, widest at 5, costa anteriorly slightly arched, 

 posteriorly almost straight, apex round-pointed, termen extremely oblique- 

 ly rounded ; yellow-ochreous, tinged with ferruginous ; several shorrt 

 oblique blackish strigulse on costa between ^ and f ; dorsal half obscure- 

 ly suffused with ferruginous and irrorated with fuscous : cilia ochreous- 

 yellowish. Hindwings dark grey, lighter and thinly scaled anteriorly ; 

 cilia grey. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome) ; in November, two specimens. 



Nothris citharista, n, sp. 



S 9 • 12-14 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish-ochreous more or less 

 tinged with grey, shoulders narrowly dark fuscous. Antennal ciliations in 

 S 5. Palpi whitish, second joint brown except towards apex, with long 

 rough projecting tuft beneath and scales roughly expanded above, 

 terminal joint much longer than second, anterior edge dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey, anal tuft pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, very 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, termen extremely obliquely 

 rounded ; pale whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with grey or fuscous ; costa dark 

 fuscous towards base ; an indistinct dark fuscous dot on fold beyond \, and 

 one obliquely beneath and before this ; stigmata small, black, accompanied 

 with some ferruginous or fuscous scales, discal approximated, plical beneath 

 first discal, second discal placed on a slender transverse fuscous sometimes 

 ferruginous-mixed fascia, expanded anteriorly on costa ; posterior area of 

 wing more or less streaked longitudinally with dark fuscous : cilia whitish- 

 fuscous. Hindwings grey, thinly scaled anteriorly, veins and termen 

 darker-suffused ; cilia grey. 



N. Coorg, 3,500 feet (Newcome) ; in May, October, and November, four 

 specimens. 



Nothris incondita, n. sp. 



S 9 . 14-18 mm. Head and thorax whitish, sometimes with a few black- 



