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brighter yellowish-pink in the apex and along the upper half of the termen; 
cilia pale yellow. 
Tegumen broad, rather short. Uncus small, slender, pointed. Anus, a 
broad flap. Valva strong, dilated, cucullus obliquely truncate, bristled, 
harpe, a single spike, saccnlus not inchoated. Vinculum short, truncate. 
Anellus with two stout bristled projections. Aedoeagus large, stout, 
narrowed to a point. Cornuti, several pairs of spikes and a denticulate rod. 
(Slide no. 954 D, type.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 8, 1939. One specimen. 
Gonaepa Walker, 1866 
Oonaepa Walker, 1866, Catal. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., vol. 35, p. 1840. Meyrick, 
Gener. Ins., fasc. 184, p. 232, 1925. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 
100, 1929. Gaede, Lepicl. Catal., part 79, p. 511, 1937. 
Key to the species of Gonaepa 
1. Dull dark fuscous scattered with whitish scales, a slender whitish transverse line 
from beyond 4 / 6 of costa dysthyma spec. nov. 
Markings orange or yellow 2 
2. Coppery, margins golden-yellow josiandla Walker 
Dark purplish-fuscous or purplish -black, not thus edged 3 
3. A band from '/ 3 of dorsum reaching s / 3 across wing, curved to dorsum before 
tornus, traversed by dark lines on veins actinis Walsingham 
A broad transverse narrowed band at 2 / 3 with a transverse dash above middle 
heliarcha Meyrick 
Gonaepa dysthyma spec. nov. (figs. 577, 581) 
dvo&v/ioi; = sad 
o 19 mm, $ 20 mm. Head and thorax purplish-fuscous, face light 
leaden -grey. Antenna long-ciliate in the male, dilations 3; purplish- 
fuscous. Palpus in the male greyish-fuscous, terminal segment dark fuscous, 
in the female palpus fight fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, two basal 
segments more or less suffused with white. Legs sordid pale wliitish- 
ochreous, above suffused with fuscous-grey, whitish-ringed. Fore wing 
rather narrow, elongate-truncate, gradually dilated, broadest before the 
termen, costa moderately curved anteriorly, straight in the middle, 
rounded before the apex, apex broadly rounded, indefinite, termen 
rounded, slightly scobinate between the veins, little oblique. Dull dark 
fuscous, with faint purplish tinge in certain fights, but not glossy. An 
irregular transverse sordid whitish fine from beyond 4 / 5 of the costa, with 
its upper third continuous, slightly inwardly oblique, its lower two-thirds 
narrower, moderately shifted distad, vertical, deeply zigzag, partially 
interrupted, to the tornus ; the wing from the base to this fascia scattered 
with slender sordid whitish scales, denser below the costa, in the disc 
