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before tornus crowned with second discal stigma, and an elongate suffused spot 
on costa opposite this perspicua spec. nov. 
20. Hind wing grey 21 
Hind wing whitish or pale ochreous, sometimes more or less suffused with grey 
towards apex 25 
21. Dark or rather dark purplish-fuscous 22 
Fuscous, lilac-ochreous or greyish-ochreous, without purple tinge 23 
22. Discal stigma well-marked prudens Meyrick 
Discal stigmata not perceptible purpurea spec. nov. 
23. Antenna ochreo us-whitish with fragments of slender dark rings, giving impression 
of sparse black dotting; hind wing rather broad .... brachyptila spec. nov. 
Antenna oehreous-whitish, without dots or rings, sometimes with a greyish 
tuft at 1 / 6 24 
24. Antenna tufted at l / 5 ; head whitish-grey-oehreous ; thorax fuscous 
squamifera Meyrick 
Antenna without tuft; head lilac-ochreous, sides of crown oehreous-whitish; 
thorax light lilac-ochreous autodyas Meyrick 
25. Brownish-fuscous, veins narrowly marked with whitish-ochreous streaks, costa 
anteriorly suffused with whitish-ochreous abrasa spec. nov. 
Veins not marked with light colour 26 
26. Antenna fuscous. Palpus in male very long, curved and projecting over vertex, 
much thickened with dense scales rhinoceros spec. nov. 
Antenna light ochreous or whitish, sometimes moderately infuscated towards 
base or dark-ringed, but not fuscous 27 
27. Antenna whitish finely black-ringed, apical eighth black . . submersa spec. nov. 
Antenna not thus 28 
28. Palpus dark fuscous-grey capra spec. nov. 
Palpus light ochreous, sometimes slightly mixed with grey 29 
29. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 coincident baryoma spec. nov. 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked 30 
30. Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 almost connate ; palpus in male modified 
pachystoma spec. nov. 
Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 hardly approximated; palpus in male normal 
(in lutescens ; in other species male unknown) 31 
31. Fore wing with stigmata large, conspicuous; a row of suffused dots along termen 
' megalosperma spec. nov. 
Fore wing with stigmata small; no terminal dots lutescens spec. nov. 
Lecithocera nitens spec. nov. (figs. 586, 587) 
g 21 mm, $ 20 mm. Head and thorax glossy purple-fuscous. Antenna 
light ochreous, slightly thickened in the male. Palpus purplish-fuscous, 
apex of the median segment and the apical half of the terminal, light 
ochreous. Abdomen fight brownish-ochreous, venter dark fuscous. Legs 
fight ochreous, more or less infuscated, dark fuscous above, except articu- 
lations, posterior leg little infuscated, tibia clothed with appressed long 
bristly hairs above. Pore wing with veins 2 and 3 stalked, 4 separate, 
8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to termen; elongate, dilated, costa curved anteriorly, 
slightly curved before the apex, apex obtusely pointed, termen sinuate, 
oblique. Deep fuscous-purple, becoming paler purplish-fuscous beyond 
