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Genus ASICCIA, nov. 
Type, A. lithosiana. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, rather smoothly scaled in front 
and slightly fringed with hair behind at extremity, the 3rd 
short and thickly scaled ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of female ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 
with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibiae 
smoothly scaled ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without 
crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the 
termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form a small areole ; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with the cell more than half the length of wing ; 
veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 
6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near 
middle. 
Asiccia lithosiana, n. sp. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white mixed with 
red-brown ; antennae ringed with black except towards 
tips ; palpi dark red-brown, the extremities of 2nd and 3rd 
joints white ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen 
white tinged with red-brown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi 
black-brown, the latter ringed with white. Fore wing white 
irrorated with red-brown ; some reel-brown suffusion at base 
of costa with a black point at base of cell and small dark 
brown subbasal spot on costa ; a red-brown antemedial 
band, broadly diffused on outer side, on inner area and with 
two small black-brown spots on it in the cell ; a black-brown 
discoidal bar with some rufous suffusion beyond it ; post- 
medial line black-brown slightly^ defined on outer side by 
white, forming a small black spot on costa above end of cell, 
bent outwards below costa, then waved, at vein 3 bent 
inwards and obsolescent to median nervure before end of 
cell, some small black-brown spots beyond it on costa and a 
red-brown patch on costal area before the subterminal line, 
which is red-brown, waved, diffused on inner side below 
the patch and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; a 
terminal series of black-brown lunules except towards tornus. 
Hind wing white tinged with red-brown ; a slight brown 
discoidal striga and terminal line. Underside of fore wing 
pale red-brown with some whitish and dark marks on terminal 
half of costa ; hind wing white tinged with red-brown espe- 
cially on costal area and terminal area to vein 2, the costa 
irrorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal spot and faint 
curved red-brown postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 
Hob. Assam, Kh'sis, 3 $ type. Exp. 20-22 millim. 
