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whitish-ochreous, posterior fourth suffused with light fuscous, this colour 
extending over the posterior half of costa. Cilia ochreous-whitish, basal half 
somewhat brighter ochreous. 
Dorsal pad large, erect-triangular. Valva with costa angulate at the 
base, concave in the middle; cucullus narrow, bristles long, the ventral 
edge slightly rounded, with a moderate longitudinal comb of spikes. 
Vinculum angulate dorsally, with a broadly triangular top. Aedoeagus 
stout, truncate, straight. Cornuti, a pair of plates, fine dentieulations, and 
a large crochet. (Slide no. 987 D, type.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 8, 1939. One specimen. 
Lecithocera induta spec. nov. (fig. 593) 
cj 13.5 mm. Head light fuscous, edges of the frons dark fuscous, face 
whitish-ochreous. Antenna pale ochreous (apices broken), scape dark 
fuscous below. Palpus with the median segment flattened laterally, dilated 
towards the apex, with a moderate projecting apical tuft, terminal 
segment 1, rather broad, with closely appressed scales, strongly flattened 
laterally, apex subacute; pale ochreous. Thorax fuscous. Abdomen 
ochreous-fuscous, tinged greyish, anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs pale 
ochreous, femora fuscous, base of the tibiae, spurs, and tarsal rings, dark 
fuscous. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen ; 
elongate, not dilated, pointed, costa curved anteriorly, straight in the 
middle, slightly prominent at 4 / 5 , apex rather pointed, termen straight, 
oblique. Rather light purplish-fuscous, indistinctly irrorated with darker 
purple-fuscous, veins apparently very narrowly striped darker than the 
ground colour. Markings dark purple-fuscous. An ill-defined cloudy 
suffusion on the base of the wing from below the costa, and a short 
blackish-fuscous streak on the base of the costa ; first discal stigma small, 
at 1 / 3 , well above the middle of the wing; second represented by an ill- 
defined small transverse suffusion on the closing vein (at 3 / 5 ), vertically 
continued to a point somewhat above the dorsum. Cilia pale ochreous 
mixed with fuscous except along the basal third, along costa not obscured, 
brighter ochreous. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 absent; with 
termen gradually rounded; pale whitish -fuscous ; a faint median longi- 
tudinal, sordid pale fuscous suffusion, slightly darker than the ground 
colour, extended in the apex ; a strong pecten of fine hairs directed down- 
ward along the upper edge of the cell, another pecten formed by smoothly 
appressed hairs directed upward, along the fold. Cilia pale whitish-fuscous. 
Genitalia with dorsal pad V-shaped. Valva rather moderate; cucullus 
not separated, narrowed, subtruncate bristles in a broad patch; ventral 
edge of the valva obtusely angulate, a triangular sclerite at 2 / 3 , edged 
posteriorly by a curved series of moderate bristles. A sclerotized pointed 
projection at the base of the valva. Vinculum strong, top obtuse. Aedoeagus 
