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follows : a moderate streak in the fold before the transverse fascia, a dot at 
the posterior extremity, and a few scattered scales haltway between that 
extremity, and the transverse streak; a small ochreous-whitish dot on 
the middle of the closing vein. Cilia pale tawny-ochreous, slightly mixed 
with darker tawny towards the base, opposite the apex with a basal dot 
and an apical suffused patch, blackish, dorsal cilia becoming fuscous- 
greyish anteriorly. Hind wing pale ochreous-leaden, glossy. Cilia pale 
tawny-fuscous, becoming pale fuscous-ochreous towards the dorsum. 
Ovipositor very elongate. Ostium erect-ovoid, upper edge with an 
ovate dorsal dilatation, and a noose-shaped rim at each side. (Slide no. 
1062 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, October 10, 1938. One specimen. 
Section 2. Fore wing with normal neuration. Male without lateral pencils, 
on thorax. 
Limnaecia ensigera spec. nov. (tig. 627) 
g 11 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, apex of the latter mixed with 
ochreous, face pale yellow (damaged). Antenna pale ochreous. Palpus 
light yellowish-ochreous, median segment infuscated towards the apex, 
terminal segment fuscous. Abdomen orange-ochrcous, broadly banded 
with purplish-black above, bands becoming broader posteriorly, posterior 
half of the dorsum entirely purplish-black, anal tuft bronze above, pale 
yellow below, venter pale yellow, anterior third infuscated. Anterior leg 
pale yellow, tibia except the apex and the tarsus, infuscated (other legs 
missing). Fore wing lanceolate, apex produced, termen faintly concave, 
very oblique. Bright orange. A moderate basal black patch with a purple 
gloss, its edge slightly outwards-oblique, concave; this patch connected 
by a narrow marginal streak with a purplish-black elongate-triangular 
patch occupying dorsum from about the middle to before the apex, 
centred with shining purple, top reaching to the fold; apical fourth of the 
wing purplish-black, with edge somewhat inwardly oblique, strongly 
convex above, moderately convex beneath; a rather thick longitudinal 
shining bluish-purple streak above the middle of the disc from 1 / 5 to 2 / 3 , 
hardly , sinuate, well-defined. Cilia black with a brassy-purple shine. 
Hind wing dark purplish-fuscous, cilia blackish. 
Uncus bipartite, two slender rising rods. Socius, a series of bristles. 
We are not able to read other parts satisfactorily, as they are delicate, 
tightly interconnected, and could not be mounted in one plane without 
risk of spoiling of the unique mount. The right valva appears to be 
separated in a long slender eucullus and a shorter, somewhat bristly 
sacculus, with two small dentations on its ventral edge. The left \ al\ a is 
normal, single, slender, clavate and bristly. Aedoeagus (dotted in the 
