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3. Hind wing dark coppery -grey ; fore wing with purple terminal fascia containing 
an ovate dark bronze-brown patch on upper half and a small spot on termen 
nesocharis Meyrick 
Hind wing dark bronze-grey or fuscous -bronze ; purple terminal fascia of fore 
wing with one large rounded dark fuscous patch; viz., in apex and on termen, 
or without patches 4 
4. Fore wing with terminal fascia containing a rounded dark fuscous spot in apex 
and along tornus ; basal patch with straight, vertical edge ; abdomen light yellow- 
fuscous isoc, ham's Meyrick 
Fore wing with terminal fascia unicolorus; basal patch with slightly inwards- 
oblique edge, with two small projections, concave between these; abdomen 
brownish -ochreous anisoxantha spec. nov. 
5. Deep fuscous with violet shine cirrhoceros spec. nov. 
Ochreous-whitish, suffused with yellow mellitacta spec. nov. 
Tinea anisoxantha spec. nov. (figs. 846, 847) 
av = not, laos = equal, £av&og = yellow 
$ 18 mm. Head sordid ochreous-yellow. Antenna fuscous becoming 
ferruginous-brown towards base. Palpus and thorax dark ferruginous- 
brown. Abdomen brownish-oehreous. Legs light ochreous-bronze, anterior 
and median femora and tibiae dark fuscous-bronze. Fore wing elongate- 
ovate, costa curved anteriorly, apex obtusely pointed, termen rounded, 
oblique. Light yellow; a dark ferruginous-brown basal patch occupying 
somewhat more than basal fifth of wing, edge well-defined, slightly 
inwards-obhque, irregularly serrulate, with a small triangular projection 
below costa, and a small indentation below middle, gently concave 
between these: apical third of wing glossy purple, irrorated with dull dark 
fuscous, edge irrorated with blackish-fuscous, well-defined, from before 
3 / 4 of costa to dorsum before tornus, convex from costa to below upper 
angle of cell, with a pointed triangular projection on closing vein, convex 
again from above lower angle of cell to dorsum. Cilia (damaged) pale 
fuscous mixed with darker fuscous. Hind wing fuscous-bronze, paler in ceh 
and at base, a whitish attenuated streak along anterior 3 / 5 of costa. Cilia 
(imperfect) paler bronze-fuscous. 
The genitaha are surrounded and entirely concealed by an exceedingly 
dense tuft of hair-scales. Ostium simple, narrow. Cohiculum developed, 
a short tube with wider upper half. Ductus bursae simple. Signum, a weak 
elongate plate with rolled up edges and a longitudinal series of transverse 
bars in middle. (Slide no. 1143 D, type.) 
Rattan Camp, 1150 m, February 9, 1939. One specimen. Intermediate 
between T. isocharis Meyrick and T. nesocharis Meyrick, very near to 
former, but in that species the edge of basal patch in lore wing is straight, 
direct, and the abdomen is light yellow-ochreous. 
