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ASOPIIDJ]:. 
fringes of all the wings pale buff ^ traversed by a series of black dashes on basal half, otherwise 
smoky grey with silvery tips : secondaries fuliginous brown, Avith whitish costa : body bronze- 
brown*. Wings below pale bronze-brown, with white-edged grey discocellular spots and 
irregular discal stripe ; fringes as above : pectus and legs bone-whitish ; the femora with a 
brownish central spot on their inner sides. Expanse of wings 24 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
The palpi of this species are unusually long for the genus. 
THYSANODESMA, gen. nov. 
Allied to Nacoleia, but the antennic of the male moniliform, tapering, with fine ciliations, 
each joint being terminated by two fine hairs, one from each anterior angle. Type T. proe- 
teritalis {Asopia? jjrceferitalis, Walk.). 
In his ' Lepidoptera of Ccylou ' Mr. Moore correctly characterizes the genus Nacoleiu ; 
but, in all probability, his descriptions of the species were drawn up from female examples, 
and consequently will have to be transferred to the pi'esent genus. The males seem to be 
rare, as both of the specimens collected by Mr, Hocking, viz. " Nacoleia costisignalis " and 
the following new species, are females. 
ThysaEodesma major. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 5.) 
Nearly allied to T. praterital'is, but much larger, less brown in colouring ; markings 
much blacker; the primaries with the costal margin only black-spotted between the two 
black lines representing the central belt. Expanse of wings 19 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
GADESSA, Moore. 
Gadessa? ossea. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 6.) 
Bone- whitish, clouded with patches of grey scales ; pattern very similar to Uedtjlepta 
vulgalis, but the reniform spot of primaries broad; the orbicular spot nearer to the inner 
stripe of the central belt, and the outer stripe of the secondaries more irregular and divided 
in the middle. Expanse of wings 22 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
This species bears considerable resemblance to some of the American forms placed by 
Lederer in his genus Blepharomastix ; but the structure of the palpi is entirely dissimilar. 
* The abdomen has been stuck on and may not belong to the specimen ; it is pearl-grey, white 
below. 
