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to f : cilia grey sprinkled with ochreous-whitish. Hindwings grey, paler 

 and thinly scaled anteriorly ; in cJ an expansible pencil of long j&ne 

 blackish hairs from disc near base : cilia whitish-ochreous-grey. Forewings 

 beneath in (5 with expansible pencil of long fine blackish hairs from disc 

 near base. 



Pusa, Bengal, in June (Fletcher) ; two specimens. 



Trichotaphe geochvota, n. sp. 



(S . 13 mm. Head and thorax lilac-fuscous. Palpi whitish, second 

 joint dark-fuscous except apical edge, scales roughly expanded towards 

 apex above, anterior edge of terminal joint dark-fuscous. Antennae serrate, 

 ciliations 2. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa 

 gently arched, apex obtuse, ternien slightly rounded, oblique ; light ashy 

 grey irrorated with fuscous ; extreme costal edge ochreous-whitish ; a 

 cloudy dark-brown dot in disc at \ ; stigmata dark brown, obscure, discal 

 approximated, plical hardly before first discal, second discal connected 

 with dorsum by an irregular dark brown line ; a fine indistinct irregular 

 ochreous-whitish transverse line at ^, forming a small distinct spot on 

 costa ; several blackish dots rovind apex and termen : cilia pale fuscous, 

 base obscurely spotted with whitish-ochreous suffusion. Hindwings grey ; 

 cilia light-grey. 

 Bassein Fort, Bombay, in October (Fletcher) ; one specimen. 



COSMOPTERYGID^. 



Cosmopteryx semnota, n. sp. 



S. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax dark-bronze, with three very fine 

 whitish lines, face light shining bronze. Palpi white lined with black. 

 Antennfe blackish, towards base with dotted white line, with two fine white 

 rings near apex and two others about %. Abdomen dark bronzy-grey. 

 Posterior tibiae blackish with white median and apical rings. Forewings 

 narrowly elongate-lanceolate, apex slenderly long-caiidate ; dark-bronzy- 

 fuscous ; a fine white oblique subcostal line from base to ^, and short 

 median and subdorsal lines beneath posterior portion of this, each reaching 

 somewhat beyond the one above it ; a lighter bronzy-fuscous postmedian 

 transverse band, tinged with ochreous towards costa, edged by violet-golden 

 fascise, first vertical, followed above middle by a large black dot, second in- 

 wardly oblique, narrowed or almost interrupted in disc ; a sinuate ochreous- 

 yellow line running from middle of this to apex : cilia rather dark fuscous, 

 with a white bar at apex, and a white spot on costa on posterior edge of 

 band. Hindwings dark-fuscous ; cilia rather dark-fuscous. 



Pykara, Nilgiris, 7,000 feet, in April (Andrewes) ; two specimens. 

 Distinct by the bronzy-fuscous band. 



Trissodoris, n. g. 



Head smooth-scaled, forehead rather prominent between antennse, face 

 flat, somewhat retreating, crown rather depressed, side tufts slightly 

 raised; ocelli absent; tongue developed. Antennae 1, in S somewhat 

 thick, simple, basal joint long, somewhat dilated with scales, with slight 

 pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, somewhat diverging, second joint 

 thickened with rather rough scales towards apex beneath, terminal joint 

 longer than second, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed 

 to tongue. Posterior tibise with rough projecting scales from base to | and 

 apical group of expanded bristly scales, spurs with fine pecten of scales, 

 tarsi with rough projecting tuft of scales above on basal joint, and some- 

 what roughened with scales throughout. Forewings with 1 b furcate, 2 

 remote, 3-5 approximated, 7 and 8 out of 6, 7 to costa, 11 from middle. 

 Hindwings §, narrow-lanceolate, cilia 4 ; 2-5 remote, parallel, 6 and 7 

 connate. 



