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Avfjyroploce 2)yvrhocrossa, n. sp. 



S $ . 15-16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light brownish finely sprink- 

 led with fuscous or dark. Abdomen blackish-grey, in cJ rather elongate. 

 Forewings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen sinuate, vertical ; brownish, finely irrorated with whitish and 

 dark fuscous ; costal edge blackish strigulated with whitish ; some undefined 

 darker median suffusion from base to middle ; a similar patch on tornus ; 

 two short oblique-leaden-metallic strigse from costa posteriorly : cilia brown- 

 reddish, at apex dark fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous, more blackish 

 posteriorly ; cilia whitish-grey, with dark fuscous subbasal line. 



Khasis ; in March and November, three specimens. Specially character- 

 ised by the contrasted reddish cilia of forewings. 



Pammene homotorna, n. sp. 



S $ . 11-13 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi 

 ascending, pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded-obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather ob- 

 lique ; 7 to apex ; dark j)urplish-fuscous, sprinkled with blue-whitish points, 

 costa with pairs of fine whitish strigulse ; anterior half of wing mostly cover- 

 ed by suffused curved leaden-metallic striee ; a thick curved blue-leaden- 

 metallic strise from | of costa to tornus, lower portion with two short pro- 

 jections anteriorly ; a subterminal series of black dots or short dashes 

 strongest towards apex of wing : cilia whitish-fuscous, with dark fuscous 

 basal and subapical shades, latter obsolete towards tornus. Hindwings 

 with 3 and 4 stalked ; dark fuscous, suff"used with blackish posteriorly ; 

 cilia as in forewings. 



Khasis ; in June and September, six specimens. 



Pammene theristis, n. sp. 



J 5 . 11-14 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi 

 ascending, ochreous-whitish, in J sprinkled with grey, in $ irrorated 

 with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa slightly 

 arched, apex obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, little oblique ; 7 to termen ; 

 dark j)urplish-fuscous, slightly sprinkled with purple-whitish points ; costa 

 shortly strigulated with blackish ; two sharply-marked ochreous white 

 wedge-shaped costal strigulse before apex ; a blackish stria from costa at % 

 to termen above middle, in c^" preceded and followed by bluerleaden- 

 metallic strigse : cilia rather dark purplish-fuscous, with blackish basal line. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked : dark fuscous, darker posteriorly ; cilia 

 fuscous-whitish, violet-iridescent, with dark fuscous basal line. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Pole, de Mowbray) ; Kumaon ; in May, June and 

 October, four specimens. Bred from seedlings of Shorea robusta (Indian 

 Forest Service). 



Pammene peristictis, n. sp. 



(S . 8-10 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen dark fuscous. Palpi rather 



