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apex : cilia pui'plish fuscous, round apex and upper half of termen lighter 

 and bluish metallic, with blackish basal line. Hindwings with 6 and 7 rather 

 approximately towards base ; blackish ; a suffused irregular whitish median 

 band, not reaching margins, cut by blackish streaks on veins ; cilia white 

 with violet-blue iridescence, with dark fuscous basal line, round apex grey. 

 Undersurface of forewings with white streak along lower margin of cell. 



Khasis ; in June, one specimen. 



Laspeyresia 'pulvenda, n. sp. 



d . 14 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous irrorated with pale greyish- 

 ochreous, face whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 slightly rounded, somewhat oblique ; dark purple-fuscous, anterior § closely 

 irrorated with ochreous-whitish, leaving an oblique dark fuscous mark 

 crossing submedian fold before middle ; costal area suffused with brown on 

 posterior half, edge strigulated with whitish ; a short oblique blackish 

 striga from middle of costa and another from beneath costa at | to above 

 middle of termen, each followed by a purple-leaden-metallic striga ; ocellus 

 margined by ochreous-whitish irroration and very obscure leaden-metallic 

 streaks : cilia grey, w»ith black basal line. Hindwings with 6 and 7 approxi- 

 mated towards base ; dark fuscous, with broad blackish terminal band ; 

 a suffused whitish spot in middle of disc ; cilia white, with blackish basal 

 line. Undersurface of forewings with streak of whitish suffusion along- 

 lower margin of cell ; of hindwings with larger whitish discal patch. 



Khasis ; in June, one specimen. 



Laspeyresia leucostoma, n. sp. 



6 2 . 11-15 mm. Head dark fuscous, face white. Palpi white. Thorax 

 grey, with a more or less developed blackish bar behind collar. Forewings 

 elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 straight, little oblique ; purplish-fuscous suffused with blackish, with 

 irregular broken violet-leaden-metallic strise rising from pairs of whitish 

 costal strigulse ; ocellus enclosed by two violet-leaden-metallic streaks, 

 anterior duplicated, posterior followed by an irregular whitish-ochreous 

 termina streak ; upper half of ocellus suffused with whitish-ochreous ; 

 an irregular patch of whitish-ochreous suffusion above ocellus ; two larger 

 yellowish-white strigulse at apex: cilia leaden-grey with a dark fuscous 

 basal line finely edged with ochreous-white, more broadly at apex. Hind- 

 wings dark fuscous, thinly scaled on basal half ; cilia iridescent-whitish 

 with dark fuscous basal line. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon (Alston); Palnis (Campbell); Khasis; from May to 

 October, eight specimens. 



Laspeyresia turifera, n. sp. 



(S . 13 mm. Head yellow, sidetufts of crown dark fuscous. Palpi 

 yellow, base brownish. Thorax and abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings 



